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haxit

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Registered: 2008-03-04

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[Solved] MPD Starts Playing Music On Startup

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way from stopping MPD from playing music on the startup?

Thanks,
HaXiT

Last edited by haxit (2008-09-03 19:05:19)

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alsoJones

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Registered: 2008-09-02

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Re: [Solved] MPD Starts Playing Music On Startup

Do you have MPD running as a daemon in /etc/rc.conf ?

If so, remove it and it will not start playing on startup.

moljac024

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Registered: 2008-01-29

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Re: [Solved] MPD Starts Playing Music On Startup

Yes, I remember having these problems myself. You should remove the mpd daemon from rc.conf and start it after you log in.

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fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

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Re: [Solved] MPD Starts Playing Music On Startup

If you set MPD to save its state before it quits, it resumes as soon as it starts up again. So the solution here is to either stop your music before you shut down your computer, or to tell it not to save its state (remove or comment out state_file in mpd.conf).

Last edited by fflarex (2008-09-03 13:11:53)

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

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Re: [Solved] MPD Starts Playing Music On Startup

install mpc
and add something like
mpc stop
to /etc/rc.local.shutdown

haxit

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Re: [Solved] MPD Starts Playing Music On Startup

Thanks for the help guys. I will remove it from my daemons, and instead add it to autostart.sh.

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fflarex

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Re: [Solved] MPD Starts Playing Music On Startup

xdeusx's suggestion is probably cleaner than removing it from your daemons.

EDIT: ... if it works, that is. It occurs to me that I'm not sure when /etc/rc.local.shutdown is executed in the shutdown sequence. MPD may quit before you can tell it to stop playing. Sorry for taking up a useless post if I'm wrong.

EDIT: It should work.

EDIT again: I really like this solution and I've actually decided to use it myself. I've been in the habit of just manually pausing my music before shut down, but now I just added 'mpc pause > /dev/null' to /etc/rc.local.shutdown and it works great.

Last edited by fflarex (2008-09-04 18:18:57)