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linduxed

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[SOLVED] Did update - MPD doesn't work

I recently did a large pacman -Syu and while I don't remember all of the packages, I do remember that gnome3 was in there.
I've heard that gnome3 has pulseaudio as a dependency which could be why it was pulled along somehow. I don't know if it's this or something else, but my MPD has stopped playing music.

The time of the track is moving, but there is no sound. In ncmpcpp it says Volume: n/a.

Playing a track with mplayer works, along with adjusting the volume in alsamixer.

Last edited by linduxed (2011-05-07 10:51:16)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Did update - MPD doesn't work

Are you using alsa for mpd playback?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mp … PulseAudio

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You can check /var/log/pacman.log to see what packages have you installed, upgraded and removed - the most recent operations are at the end.
https://github.com/pbrisbin/scripts/blo … whatdidido is a nice script to help you with your memory ;-)
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linduxed

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Re: [SOLVED] Did update - MPD doesn't work

Thank you for the help.

I checked in my mpd.conf file, and for some reason it had gotten edited, so I had to modify it (uncomment some stuff, comment out the pulseaudio things).
Now it works.