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I recently did a clean install of arch on my laptop and because I couldn't remember exactly how I had my mpd configured, I just went through the wiki article on setting it up and it's not quite working. First and foremost, I can't get it to add any content to the library. Also, I can't get mpd to launch from a normal user status and daemonize. My mpd.conf is here. Here are the two errors (from different run levels) root & user.
As always, thanks for the help.
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Did you move you're Music from somewhere else, try chmodding and chown it also,
chmod -R 755 <dir>
chown -R user:group /home/james/Musc
This is if you transferred your files manually from another Partition/Disc using root as the copying user.
Cheers.
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Seems like MPD tries to access the music in your home directory (which is usually owned by <user>:user) or something. For this to work, you'd need the user mpd to own it:
chown -R mpd:mpd <path/to/music/dir>
I'd recommend trying to put yourself in the audio group and chowning the files to mpd:audio, though. That way, when you set the proper permissions, you'll still be able to delete/add/change your music collection.
Last edited by Runiq (2009-11-28 08:27:37)
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Wow... I feel dumb, I forgot to chmod my home folder properly :x I had all of the correct permissions on my Music folder. Thanks for the posts anyways.
Last edited by dr0p (2009-11-28 08:38:06)
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Is there really any benefit to having MPD run as user "mpd"?
Why not just install it an run it as myself as the user?
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Why not just install it an run it as myself as the user?
Indeed, that's what I do.
edit: the other approach has an advantage for shared computers though I think
Last edited by JohannesSM64 (2009-12-01 07:01:33)
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