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Dgameman1

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 28

[SOLVED]Mocp and Sound in general

Here is what happens when I type mocp into terminal

[daniel@arch ~]$ mocp
Can't load plugin libffmpeg_decoder: file not found
Can't load plugin libwavpack_decoder: file not found
Running the server...
Trying JACK...
Trying ALSA...
Trying OSS...

FATAL_ERROR: No valid sound driver!


FATAL_ERROR: Server exited!

[daniel@arch ~]$ 

And trying to have sound play out of my speakers does not work. The only way I can listen to music is if I attach headphones through either the front speaker port or the back speaker port on my desktop tower, but the second I connect my speakers to it, I don't hear anything.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Dgameman1 (2013-09-15 20:25:06)

sekret

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Registered: 2013-07-22

Posts: 305

Re: [SOLVED]Mocp and Sound in general

Do you use moc from the repos? What does your ~/.moc/config look like? Or better: Move ~/.moc to a temporary directory, e.g. run

killall mocp
mv ~/.moc ~./moc.bak
moc

Does it still not work?

Do you use pulseaudio?

Dgameman1

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED]Mocp and Sound in general

[daniel@arch ~]$ killall mocp
mocp: no process found
[daniel@arch ~]$ mv ~/.moc ~/.moc.bak
[daniel@arch ~]$ moc
bash: moc: command not found
[daniel@arch ~]$ mocp
Can't load plugin libffmpeg_decoder: file not found
Can't load plugin libwavpack_decoder: file not found
Running the server...
Trying JACK...
Trying ALSA...
Trying OSS...

FATAL_ERROR: No valid sound driver!


FATAL_ERROR: Server exited!

[daniel@arch ~]$ 

I believe I have installed Alsa and PulseAudio

I have no idea what I'm doing. I think I uninstalled PulseAudio and Alsa, and I installed ossp, yet AlsaMixer still works =/

Last edited by Dgameman1 (2013-08-08 23:32:21)

Dgameman1

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED]Mocp and Sound in general

I kinda just screwed around with it and now it kinda sorta not really works. If i do a certain order to things, it'll automatically keep muting and unmuting. so confused

sekret

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Registered: 2013-07-22

Posts: 305

Re: [SOLVED]Mocp and Sound in general

You cannot uninstall Alsa, since it's in the linux kernel. What did you install ossp for? I suggest to uninstall it, reboot and try to launch mocp again.

You last comment doesn't really help. I don't think moc does this (un)muting.

Again the question, do you use moc from the repos?

Dgameman1

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED]Mocp and Sound in general

You cannot uninstall Alsa, since it's in the linux kernel. What did you install ossp for? I suggest to uninstall it, reboot and try to launch mocp again.

You last comment doesn't really help. I don't think moc does this (un)muting.

Again the question, do you use moc from the repos?

I did install moc from the official repo, but I just uninstalled it and am now trying to use ncmpcpp.

Any help?

sekret

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Registered: 2013-07-22

Posts: 305

Re: [SOLVED]Mocp and Sound in general

Dude, seriously, what exactly are you asking? I hope you know at least, that ncmpcpp is a frontend for mpd, so you'll have to setup mpd first. Look into the wiki how to do it. When mpd runs, you can launch ncmpcpp and browse your music etc.

Next time you have a question, please don't just ask "Any help?" without providing ANY information what's not working for you etc. That's just rude. You can't expect us to do everything for you.

Dgameman1

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED]Mocp and Sound in general

Dude, seriously, what exactly are you asking? I hope you know at least, that ncmpcpp is a frontend for mpd, so you'll have to setup mpd first. Look into the wiki how to do it. When mpd runs, you can launch ncmpcpp and browse your music etc.

Next time you have a question, please don't just ask "Any help?" without providing ANY information what's not working for you etc. That's just rude. You can't expect us to do everything for you.

You're right. I did try a bunch of different things, I was just too lazy to write them all down. Sorry!

But in the end, I had to set a default audio driver. I thought I did, but I had to make it stick using a config file.

Sorry everyone but thanks!