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Hello,
I installed mpd and sonata on my laptop.
and i tried to get it working for like 30 minutes, after that I started (don't know why) the network deamon and it worked :S
But i'm on a wireless network and I don't need the network deamon to get online, so does somebody know how I could get mpd/sonata working without running the network deamon ?
Thanks.
//edit
I use wicp to manage my wireless networks by the way...
Last edited by WernerL (2008-08-07 23:46:29)
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My Sonata was fucking up when I changed my hostname from localhost to ****. On the Sonata profile page it asks for hostname, might be related.
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hostname is just localhost for me.
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you don't need the network daemon for running mpd. mpd is just a locale task running in the background to play audio files.
first you have to create/change mpd's config file:
#
#/etc/mpd.conf
#
music_directory "/mnt/externe/Musik"
playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists"
db_file "~/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "~/.mpd/mpd.log"
error_file "~/.mpd/mpd.error"
pid_file "~/.mpd/mpd.pid"
user "arch0r"
bind_to_address "127.0.0.1"
port "6600"
afterwards you need to create the mpd.pid file: touch /path/to/file/mpd.pid and define it in the mpd.conf
start the mpd daemon: /etc/rc.d/mpd start
in sonata you only have to enter the Host (localhost), the Port (6600), your music folder and connect to localhost:6600
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I didn't create the pid file.
Now it works, thanks.
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Anything that doesn't work, usually try running it in a terminal, with a verbose switch if needed.
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Interesting feature installing zsi (pacman -S zsi) allows the automatic fetching of the lyrics which are stored in ~/.lyrics
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