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sevenfourk

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Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 185

mpc is broken

it supposted to work later, but now when i want to add some music to playlist it shows nothing is playlist

$ mpc add ~/mzk/rm/SOAD/
$ mpc playlist
$

nothing displays in playlist

what is that? can somebody tell me?

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jakobm

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Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 132

Re: mpc is broken

With mpc add you just can add files from your mpd database to the playlist.
(man-page)

add <file> 
        Adds a song from the music database to the playlist. Can also read input from pipes. Use "mpc ls | mpc add" to add all files to the playlist.

So, change your music directory in /etc/mpd.conf or put your music to the right destination and execute mpc update.

sevenfourk

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Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 185

Re: mpc is broken

yeah, you're rigth here i just thought i can add files whereever i want

hmmm mpc adds music only when i'm in ~/music, that's not very comfortable.

Last edited by sevenfourk (2008-03-27 17:29:30)

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thayer

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: mpc is broken

Because it's a server/client model, it expects a fairly static configuration from mpd.  What I do is dump my unsorted/new music into a temp subdir of my music path.

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: mpc is broken

yeah, you're rigth here i just thought i can add files whereever i want

hmmm mpc adds music only when i'm in ~/music, that's not very comfortable.

If you don't want to deal with a database you could try moc player -- it's also cli based, and can do most things mpd can do, but doesn't use a database and enables you to just add any files.  I generally prefer mpd, but I also use moc on my laptop because I have a lot of music on an external hd which is not always connected and so the database solution is not always optimal (adding all the music on the hd to the mpd database takes about 5 minutes).

sevenfourk

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Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 185

Re: mpc is broken

Because it's a server/client model

i know that it's server/client model, just missed the thing about using the /~database~

fwojciec: yeah mocp is good, and sometimes iеs good to have such a player with the help of which you can surf your file system, but basically i prefer database, cuz it's easy to find any music.

Last edited by sevenfourk (2008-03-27 22:01:33)

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