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#1 2008-12-22 10:01:16
- mc
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playing music on external hard drives using mpd
Hi,
I have my music on an external hard drive and I mounted it and put it in my .mpdconf file, but mpd does not add the songs in the external drive to it's database. How can I fix this?
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#2 2008-12-22 11:02:15
- dcrabs
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Re: playing music on external hard drives using mpd
Hi, I have a similar installation and solved the problem by changing the rights of the mp3 files so that mpd can read them. Something like "chmod 644 *.mp3 -R" should do it.
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#3 2008-12-23 08:16:43
- mc
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Re: playing music on external hard drives using mpd
Do i have to do this everytime i remount my external drives?
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#4 2008-12-26 16:47:38
- mc
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Re: playing music on external hard drives using mpd
Hey,
I changed the file permissions using the command which you gave. Now mpd adds the songs to the database but i can't see them. I know they've been added cause when i do "mpd --create-db", i see the files being added.
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#5 2008-12-26 23:25:09
- litemotiv
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Re: playing music on external hard drives using mpd
just in case: you do know that you need an extra client program to connect to mpd and view/play the files right?
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