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dustinw

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Registered: 2009-03-16

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mpd/sonata issue

I followed the wiki but sonata does not play music at all. 
Is there a hidden step or am I just a little slow?

#Edit
I think I have all the codecs installed, amarok works fine.

Last edited by dustinw (2009-03-17 01:05:35)

Inxsible

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

Have you started the mpd daemon? You will have to define the location of your music in the .mpdconf in your home directory. Have you done that?

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dustinw

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

Yeah i've done that, the music shows up in my library, but when I click on it to play it scrolls through much like winamp does when you try to get it to play the wrong file format.  I have tryed flac and mp3 neither work in sonata but both work with amarok.

Inxsible

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

Try starting sonata from the terminal and see what errors it gives, if any.

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dustinw

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sonata/main.py:78: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import gtk, pango, threading, time, ui, img, tray, md5

eh?

Allan

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

That warning can safely be ignored.

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area

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

where is your music stored?

I had an issue earlier today becuase my music partition was owned by root. fix was as simple as umount and mount as my user.

dustinw

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

on my external but I moved a cd onto ~/music and that did the same thing

Inxsible

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

on my external but I moved a cd onto ~/music and that did the same thing

so when you moved it to ~/music, did you change the mpdconf file accordingly?

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dustinw

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

~/music is the file in the mpdconf  I just drag and dropped a cd into the folder

Inxsible

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

Can you check the permissions on ~/music like area suggested? Post them here.

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dustinw

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

I am the owner with rw access

The group is root with rw access and I am a member of the root group

others also have rw access of the file

Rasi

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

1. kill the mpd daemon
2. start mpd with "mpd --verbose --no-daemon --stdout" from a cli
3. play something in sonata
4. watch cli for error messages.
5. tell us

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dustinw

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

client 1: process command "playid "1""
playlist: play 1:"We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank/01 - March Into The Sea.mp3"
client 1: command returned 0
playlist: queue song 2:"We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank/02 - Dashboard.mp3"
client 1: process command "status"
client 1: command returned 0
detected LAME version 3.97 ("LAME3.97 ")
LAME peak found: 0.000000
encoder delay is 576, encoder padding is 1500
client 1: process command "currentsong"
client 1: command returned 0
client 1: process command "search "album" "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank""
client 1: command returned 0
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dev=mixer
Error opening ALSA device "dev=mixer": No such file or directory
problems opening audio device while playing "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank/01 - March Into The Sea.mp3"

KimTjik

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

Maybe you've forgot to configure the "device" section in mpd.conf?

You should specify something, for example like this:

############################# MIXER ############################
#
# MPD needs to know what mixer settings to change when you
# adjust the volume.  If you don't specify one here, MPD will
# pick one based on which ones it was compiled with support for.
#
# An example for controlling an ALSA mixer:
#
mixer_type                      "alsa"
mixer_device                    "default"
mixer_control                   "PCM"
#
# An example for controlling an OSS mixer:
#
#mixer_type                      "oss"
#mixer_device                    "/dev/mixer"
#mixer_control                   "PCM"
#
# If you want MPD to adjust the volume of audio sent to the
# audio outputs, you can tell it to use the software mixer:
#
#mixer_type                      "software"
#
################################################################

Or what now is applicable in your system. Looks like it plays but doesn't know what device to use.

dustinw

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Re: mpd/sonata issue

awesome, it works now.  I had 'device  dev=mixer'  like in the wiki but changing it to 'default' made it work.