MPD - just cannot get it to start (SOLVED)

gasman49 · 2014-05-31 17:30:17

Hi

I cannot start MPD

in mpd.conf i have the following

music_directory                   "/mnt/NAS_music/flac"
db_file                           "/home/neill/mpd-configure/mpd/mpd.db"
log_file                          "/home/neill/mpd-configure/mpd/mpd.log"
playlist_directory                "/home/neill/mpd-configure/mpd/playlists"
pid_file                          "/home/neill/mpd-configure/mpd/pid"
state_file                        "/home/neill/mpd-configure/mpd/state"

If I start mpd without the mpd.db file existing I get a 'file not found error'

If I start mpd having

 touch mpd.db

then I get

 db: Database corrupted

In desperation I

 chmod 777 -R /mpd-configure

but to no avail

Pulling my hair out here

Any ideas anyone???

Last edited by gasman49 (2014-05-31 19:58:53)

bstaletic · 2014-05-31 18:20:32

That is not really a problem. Since this is your first time running mpd there hasn't been a database update. Start mpd, start some mpd client like ncmpcpp and update database using that client. Same thing happened to me.

Should we report this as a (minor) bug?

Caution: mpd's update command is deprecated.

gasman49 · 2014-05-31 18:27:02

Thanks

Got the daemon started and run

 mpc update

very quickly I drop back to the command prompt and the DB has a tiny fraction of he songs in it

Seems the update process started then aborted!

Permissions on all the .AACs and .flacs is 777 so can't see why only a small fraction gets put in the DB??

Roberth · 2014-05-31 18:30:40

What does mpd.log say?

bstaletic · 2014-05-31 18:33:19

Stupid question: Did you wait for update to finish? It can take a while if you have a lot of music, and those formats make me think you do.

gasman49 · 2014-05-31 19:55:55

Not a stupid question at all !!

Not being a patient soul (!) I didn't

Doh !!

10 minutes later there it is

:-)

Thanks for the help people

jasonwryan · 2014-05-31 19:57:30

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MPD - just cannot get it to start (SOLVED)

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