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WernerL

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Registered: 2007-07-03

Posts: 161

sonata only starts with network deamon, why ?

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)

nilsHaus

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Registered: 2007-06-22

Posts: 69

Re: sonata only starts with network deamon, why ?

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.

WernerL

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Registered: 2007-07-03

Posts: 161

Re: sonata only starts with network deamon, why ?

hostname is just localhost for me.

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: sonata only starts with network deamon, why ?

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

WernerL

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Registered: 2007-07-03

Posts: 161

Re: sonata only starts with network deamon, why ?

I didn't create the pid file.
Now it works, thanks.

nilsHaus

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Registered: 2007-06-22

Posts: 69

Re: sonata only starts with network deamon, why ?

Anything that doesn't work, usually try running it in a terminal, with a verbose switch if needed.

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: sonata only starts with network deamon, why ?

Interesting feature installing zsi (pacman -S zsi) allows the automatic fetching of the lyrics which are stored in ~/.lyrics

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