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Dethredic

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MPD Help

[phil@fml ~]$ mpd /home/phil/.mpd/config
failed to stat music directory "/phil/music": No such file or directory
db_file setting missing
Aborted
[phil@fml ~]$ cat /home/phil/.mpd/config/mpd.conf
cat: /home/phil/.mpd/config/mpd.con: No such file or directory
[phil@fml ~]$ cat /home/phil/.mpd/config/mpd.conf
music_directory      "/home/phil/music"
playlist_directory   "/home/phil/.mpd/playlists"
db_file              "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file             "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file             "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.pid"
state_file           "/home/phil/.mpd/state"
user                 "phil"


[phil@fml ~]$ ls -l | grep music
drwxr-xr-x 2 phil users      4096 Feb  6 21:09 music
[phil@fml ~]$

I have tried changing the "phil" user to "mpd", which didn't help. Any ideas?

Last edited by Dethredic (2010-02-10 21:36:23)

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firecat53

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Re: MPD Help

Looks like you might have an error in your mpd.conf -- can't stat /phil/music...how about /home/phil/music ?

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Dethredic

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Re: MPD Help

Looks like you might have an error in your mpd.conf -- can't stat /phil/music...how about /home/phil/music ?

thats the weird thing. In my MPD config file I have:
music_directory      "/home/phil/music"

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sand_man

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Re: MPD Help

Its been a while since I use mpd last but does it require a trailing '/' for the path to be valid?

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Chokkan

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Re: MPD Help

I don't have the trailing / in my config file. Just to eliminate the obvious, are you mixing up Music and music?

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kaivalagi

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Re: MPD Help

I don't have the trailing / in my config file. Just to eliminate the obvious, are you mixing up Music and music?

+1 - Bound to be a case issue

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Mineo

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Re: MPD Help

[phil@fml ~]$ mpd /home/phil/.mpd/config
failed to stat music directory "/phil/music": No such file or directory
db_file setting missing
Aborted

So /home/phil/.mpd/config is a file.

[phil@fml ~]$ cat /home/phil/.mpd/config/mpd.conf
music_directory      "/home/phil/music"
playlist_directory   "/home/phil/.mpd/playlists"
db_file              "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file             "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file             "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.pid"
state_file           "/home/phil/.mpd/state"
user                 "phil"

Now /home/phil/.mpd/config is a directory with mpd.conf in it. Is it me being stupid or is there something wrong here?

Dethredic

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Re: MPD Help

[phil@fml ~]$ mpd /home/phil/.mpd/config
failed to stat music directory "/phil/music": No such file or directory
db_file setting missing
Aborted

So /home/phil/.mpd/config is a file.

[phil@fml ~]$ cat /home/phil/.mpd/config/mpd.conf
music_directory      "/home/phil/music"
playlist_directory   "/home/phil/.mpd/playlists"
db_file              "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file             "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file             "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.pid"
state_file           "/home/phil/.mpd/state"
user                 "phil"

Now /home/phil/.mpd/config is a directory with mpd.conf in it. Is it me being stupid or is there something wrong here?

I copied it directly from the wiki. I will try in out in an hour when I get home.

I don't have the trailing / in my config file. Just to eliminate the obvious, are you mixing up Music and music?

I'm not. In my origional post I have a ls -l | grep music, and you can see a dir comes up.

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Roline

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Re: MPD Help

Never mind

Last edited by Roline (2010-02-10 22:17:41)

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Dethredic

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Re: MPD Help

Mineo was correct. I needed to run:
mpd /home/phil/.mpd/config/mpd.conf

I misinterpreted the wiki

Last edited by Dethredic (2010-02-10 22:21:57)

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