I've got a home server with music files stored locally on said server. I've got MPD & ncmpcpp installed on this home server. I'm trying to prototype this so I can go the extra trivial step of forwarding ports so this can be accessed anywhere, but I'm having quite a bit of trouble even getting this to work locally. I'm working on a remote machine, but all the work I've done this morning has been in a remote shell *inside* the home server... I've killed and disabled the daemon for mpd, and started it like so: mpd --stdout --no-daemon --verbose ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf and gotten this output: config_file: loading file .config/mpd/mpd.conf path: SetFSCharset: fs charset is: libsamplerate: libsamplerate converter 'Fastest Sinc Interpolator' vorbis: Xiph.Org libVorbis 1.3.5 opus: libopus 1.1.4 sndfile: libsndfile-1.0.27 simple_db: reading DB curl: version 7.52.1 curl: with OpenSSL/1.0.2k avahi: Initializing interface avahi: Client changed to state 101 avahi: Client is CONNECTING state_file: Loading state file /home/dale/.config/mpd/state The port appears to be doing something, or at least ready to do something for MPD: ~ ➭ sudo netstat -lnp | sudo grep 8002 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8002 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 21596/mpd However, when I run ncmpcpp (from within the same machine that is running MPD, the home server....remember, I'm ssh'ed in), I get the following complaint: ncmpcpp: Failed to resolve host name I've got the following ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf file: music_directory "/mnt/media/Music" playlist_directory "~/.config/mpd/playlists" db_file "~/.config/mpd/database" log_file "~/.config/mpd/log" pid_file "~/.config/mpd/pid" state_file "~/.config/mpd/state" sticker_file "~/.config/mpd/sticker.sql" #mixer_type "software" #█▓▒░ opts bind_to_address "127.0.0.1" port "6601" log_level "default" gapless_mp3_playback "yes" filesystem_charset "UTF-8" #█▓▒░ io input { plugin "curl" } audio_output { type "alsa" name "My ALSA Device" device "hw:0,0" # optional mixer_type "hardware" # optional mixer_device "default" # optional mixer_control "PCM" # optional mixer_index "0" # optional } #audio_output { # type "alsa" # name "audio" #} audio_output { type "fifo" name "visualizer" path "/tmp/mpd.fifo" format "44100:16:2" } audio_output { type "httpd" name "My HTTP Stream" encoder "vorbis" # optional bind_to_address "127.0.0.1" port "8002" # quality "5.0" # do not define if bitrate is defined bitrate "128" # do not define if quality is defined format "44100:16:1" always_on "yes" # prevent MPD from disconnecting all listeners when playback is stopped. tags "yes" # httpd supports sending tags to listening streams. } ` I've got this in my ~/.ncmpcpp/config file: ncmpcpp_directory = "~/.ncmpcpp" #lyrics_directory = "~/.lyrics" external_editor = "/usr/bin/vim" # █▓▒░ MPD Settings mpd_crossfade_time = "3" mpd_music_dir = "/mnt/media/Music" mpd_host = "127.0.0.1:8002" mpd_port = "8002" Any ideas which property(ies) I've misconfigured? Thanks

mpc rescan mpc update give same result. mpd.conf, mpd service running under user.

music_directory       "~/.cache/music"
playlist_directory    "~/.config/mpd/playlists"
db_file               "~/.config/mpd/database"

input {
        plugin "curl"
}

audio_output {
       type   "pulse"
       name   "Local Music Player Daemon"
       server   "127.0.0.1"
}

I can mpc add file under ~/.cache/music, but I can't mpc add file under a folder of ~/.cache/music, e.g: ~/.cache/music/my music folder, it gives error: > error adding /home/user/.cache/music/my music folder/20. whatever.mp3: > Access denied mpc search title "20. whatever" gives an empty result.

I run Mopidy as a service for my mpd because of the nice Spotify integration. I've followed the documentation's instructions to use it with pulseaudio by setting

load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1`

in my /etc/pulse/default.pa and

[audio]
output = pulsesink server=127.0.0.1

in my /etc/mopidy/modipy.conf.
All of this was working perfectly, however recently I've started using Pipewire as a replacement for PulseAudio on Arch Linux by following this and installing pipewire,pipewire-alsa, pipewire-pulse and pipewire-media-session. But now I've noticed that whenever I try to play any music nothing happens. I checked the journalctl for Mopidy and found this

ERROR ... [536:MainThread] mopidy.audio.gst
... mopidy:   GStreamer error: Failed to connect: Connection refused
... mopidy: WARNING ... [536:Audio-2] mopidy.audio.actor
... mopidy:   Setting GStreamer state to GST_STATE_PLAYING failed
... mopidy: WARNING ... [536:Core-11] mopidy.core.tracklist
... mopidy:   Track is not playable: local:track:...

I searched around and found the gst-plugin-pipewire package, but installing it didn't help at all. Apart from Mopidy, everything else audio-wise is working perfectly. If I could get some help with this I'd be thankful.

Running mpd without any bind_to_address in the config starts a working UNIX socket at /run/user/1000/mpd/socket but also starts a network socket at 0.0.0.0:6600 / [::]:6600. I would like to have only the UNIX socket without any network sockets, however, when configuring bind_to_address "/run/user/1000/mpd/socket" it only works if the socket directory is already created (e.g. by starting mpd without any bind_to_address previously). This means it fails after reboot. Also, this method would hardcode the socket address instead of using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Is there a way to make mpd start only a UNIX socket (and ideally read $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for that) using plain mpd without systemd?

I am trying to play back a dash manifest using ffmpeg but I keep running into the issue of ffmpeg ending with the error

[http @ 0x671e580] Stream ends prematurely at 2250, should be 18446744073709551615

The dash manifest is for a livestream. I have tested the live stream in VLC player on Windows and MX player on Android and it plays perfectly fine.  The issue seems to be just with ffmpeg. Has anyone had this issue before or know what the cause may be? I have tried telling ffmpeg to reconnect but it just loops this error.  I have tried two different MPD live streams: * $Time$ based, and * $Number$ based The issue happens only with the Number based live stream.

This was really wired! All = became q on my xfce4-terminal app, what's wrong with it? Any ideas? %> set | grep LANG LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8

I have mpd running as a system service and as user mpd. Since mpd is a system service and pulse audio is session-based, I have to stream music from mpd to the currently active pulse session daemon. This is done using the module-native-protocol-tcp module configured with auth-anonymous=1 auth-cookie-enabled=0 listen=0.0.0.0 (loose, I know, but for testing purposes) The output in mpd.conf looks like this: audio_output { type "pulse" name "My (loopback) Pulse Output" server "localhost" } Now when I run a song in mpd it complains: pulse_output: "My (loopback) Pulse Output" [pulse] failed to play: suspended output: Failed to open audio output What is wrong here? Is this a bug? What I tried : Running as my user (systemd) Running as my user (systemd) and set the user in mpd.conf Running as root and set the user in mpd.conf Setting the exact sink name

A year ago I found this great combination between ncmpcpp and mpd. I set my library with mpd and the ncmpcpp player. I am however facing an issue that is constantly reoccurring - every time I logout or wake my computer up from hibernation (to HDD) ncmpcpp appears to have an empty library, list and everything that is mpd-related. mpd is running (checked for the process and also running mpd command returns that the address has already been taken hence the new call is unable to bind to the given address). So far the solution I have found by experimenting is to simply call $ sudo service mpd stop to stop mpd and then restart it by calling $ mpd Has anyone experienced something like this? It's not too much of a fuss but I kind of find it annoying to have to do that on a regular basis.

I'm trying to set up a simple MPD instance to stream audio files over HTTP. What I'd like to be able to do is put in a URL in my browser, which will stream the audio file - as simple as possible. I've set MPD to listen to a local port, and it appears to be working - I get an OK MPD 0.23.4 when browsing to [my-IP]:6600. I've tried setting the built in HTTPD server as well:

audio_output {
        type            "httpd"
        name            "HTTP Stream"
        encoder "vorbis"                # optional, vorbis or lame
        port            "8000"
        bind_to_address "[my-ip]"          # optional, IPv4 or IPv6
##      quality         "6.0"                   # do not define if bitrate is defined
        bitrate         "192"                   # do not define if quality is defined
        format          "48000:16:2"
        max_clients     "0"                     # optional 0=no limit
}

Once that was done, I added a file named test.ogg to the top level directory - and MPD picks it up (from /var/log/mpd.log): update: added /test.ogg But when trying to access the file via browser or VLC ([my-ip]:8000/test.ogg) , I get an error: Not found MPD runs from my user, and permissions are OK - I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. How can I get MPD to stream HTTP files, as simply as possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I currently use an mpd with 4 configured outputs, wired to speakers in the ceilings as home-made "multiroom" audio system. I would like to add wireless speakers, e.g. one like this . The question is: How can I tell mpd that there is an output which is in fact remote a dlna/upnp (even aiyplay would be fine) ip-device ? Is it possible at all ? **Edit 1:** I found a way , though through pulseaudio and not dlna (which could be a use for one of my Raspberry Pis).

I installed mpd (Music Player Daemon) a long time ago on my systemd Arch Linux (I don't remember the installation/setup details). The mpd server is started during boot, but I can't find where/how it is started. It may be run by my own personal init scripts, but I didn't find anything inside them.

$ systemctl status
[...]
   CGroup: /
           ├─user.slice
           │ └─user-1000.slice
           │   ├─user@1000.service
           │   │ ├─session.slice
           │   │ │ └─pulseaudio.service
           │   │ │   ├─2028 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
           │   │ │   └─2072 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper
           │   │ ├─app.slice
           │   │ │ ├─mpd.service
           │   │ │ │ └─1963 /usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon
[...]

$ systemctl status mpd.service
○ mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:mpd(1)
             man:mpd.conf(5)

In the commands above, I don't understand why systemctl status shows that mpd was started from mpd.service, but systemctl status mpd.service shows that mpd.service is inactive/dead. If I kill mpd, then start mpd.service, then $ systemctl status mpd.service shows the service as "active":

$ killall mpd
$ systemctl start mpd.service
$ systemctl status mpd.service
● mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-10-17 20:01:57 CEST; 4min 55s ago
       Docs: man:mpd(1)
             man:mpd.conf(5)
   Main PID: 4237 (mpd)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 18719)
     Memory: 8.9M
        CPU: 96ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/mpd.service
             └─4237 /usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon

oct. 17 20:07:59 pad systemd: Starting Music Player Daemon...
oct. 17 20:07:59 pad mpd: exception: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded): Failed to bind socket: Address already in use
oct. 17 20:07:59 pad mpd: config: Found database setting without music_directory - disabling database
oct. 17 20:07:59 pad mpd: output: No 'audio_output' defined in config file
oct. 17 20:07:59 pad mpd: output: Successfully detected a alsa audio device
oct. 17 20:07:59 pad systemd: Started Music Player Daemon.
oct. 17 20:08:00 pad mpd: avahi: Service 'Music Player @ pad' successfully established.

As an extra, I don't understand the error bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed above, because lsof -i :6600 gives no output:

$ lsof -i :6600
$

Could somehow give me clues on how to find where mpd service is started? Thanks in advance

# Problems when using mpd with pulse Pulseaudio was created in order to enable using more than 1 audio source for one sink (**correct?**). If so, it should be possible to use one sink for mpd and another audio source right? That's exactly what I'm trying to do and I can't find the way. ### Relevant Info - I use Awesome WM and pulseaudio so I rely purely commands to change audio settings - No gnome-settings for example. - I use mpd as a service and the user running it is mpd in group audio. - I have 2 audio outputs of type pulse defined in my /etc/mpd.conf that use the following sinks: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_03.0.hdmi-stereo and alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo. - I can switch between those 2 audio outputs with mpc or other client for mpd like ncmpcpp. - This is the output of grep -E "pulse|mpd|audio":
audio:x:29:pulse
pulse:x:123:mpd
pulse-access:x:124:mpd
**Bonus Question:** Why are there **2** groups for pulse and what is the difference between them? - I use Ubuntu 16.04. **The problem is** that if I want to hear music from my browser for example, I have to pause mpd and refresh the page. It's quite annoying and sometimes I have to refresh the page more than once to hear something. ### What I know - I can view the programs that use (or want to use audio) with pacmd list-sink-inputs and I never see mpd there. - I know that mpd is running it's own pulseaudio session because I can see with htop/top/ps aux the following:
doron [..] /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog -vvvv
mpd [..] /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog -vvvv

I am using Arch bspwm on my laptop. I installed mpd, ncmpcpp and mopidy (with mopidy-yt extension) and enabled the required stuff for mopidy-youtube. How do I use it? I am new to all this and hope you guys can explain.

I have been struggling with MPD for several hours now. I have referenced nearly every post that has been made on the issue of MPD failing to detect the music directory properly and have made no progress. In my configuration file, I have specified 'music_directory' as both /home/user/Music and as ~/Music several times in different methods, I have completely removed and purged mpd and reinstalled it twice, deleted all old configuration files, and remade these configurations. The only thing that has solved my problem is moving the music library to /var/lib/mpd/Music despite this not being the specified music directory. I don't want to have to resort to using this as a solution, as my I have /home on a separate partition and dont want to waste my limited space in the system partition mpd config

db_file "/home/user/.mpd/db"
log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"

pid_file "/var/run/mpd/pid"
music_directory "~/Music"
auto_update "yes"
user "mpd"

Any help would be appreciated I'm at my wits end

Running $ mpd I am prompted with > socket: Failed to bind to '127.0.0.1:6600': Address already in use But if I run: $ sudo service mpd start and check its status, I get > systemd: Started Music Player Daemon. Note that in what is to come, assume that: $ sudo service mpd stop has been run. ### Questions - What is the difference between the two, why does one give an error, and the other not? - How can I track/find how the socket is being used? As mentioned, first we stop the service, if it is running? $ sudo service mpd stop I search over stackexchange, and the solutions mentioned don't find anything. $ sudo lsof -i -n -P|grep 6600 returns nothing $ sudo netstat -tulpn |grep 6600 return nothing $ sudo ss -npt|grep 6600 return nothing. But, again, $ mpd returns > socket: Failed to bind to '127.0.0.1:6600': Address already in use What do I not understand?

I've tried disabling MPD (Music Player Daemon) using Systemd: sudo systemctl disable mpd sudo systemctl status mpd mpd.service - Music Player Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) But MPD runs at every boot regardless. ps aux | grep mpd user 1691 0.1 0.8 995424 33108 ? Ssl 09:07 0:00 mpd user 2154 0.0 0.0 14216 2464 pts/5 S+ 09:17 0:00 grep --color=auto mpd How can I disable MPD from running at boot?

I use mpd to stream music to my phone (connected to Hi-Fi) via http. Yet, this only works for songs in my mpd database. I oftentimes want to play stuff in my browser and would like that to be streamed over mpd, too. Is there a way to route the pulse audio output to mpd instead of the speakers?

Example: $ mpc search title "when I was your man" Bruno Mars/Unorthodox Jukebox/06 Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man.mp3 How do I play the song? I've tried piping it to mpc play but no luck. $ mpc search title "when I was your man" | mpc play

Yesterday my mpd stopped working. It has worked for several months until now, but when choosing music in ncmpcpp no sound would be output. Today I tried stopping mpd: $ sudo systemctl stop mpd $ sudo systemctl stop mpd.socket Then I tried running it interactively on the command line: $ sudo mpd -v --no-daemon --stdout When I re-ran ncmpcpp this worked; music could be played. I have no mpd conf files in my home folder so I think it should be using the same conf file (/etc/mpd.conf) as systemd. So then I looked into the log files. They show: Jun 14 10:06 : player: played "Orbital/The Middle Of Nowhere/01-Way Out -_.mp3" ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1029:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave Jun 14 10:06 : alsa_output: Failed to open "My ALSA Device" [alsa]: Failed to open ALSA device "default": Device or resource busy Jun 14 10:06 : output: Failed to open audio output Jun 14 10:06 : player: problems opening audio device while playing "Orbital/The Middle Of Nowhere/01-Way Out -_.mp3" It looks like some sort of ALSA problem but... 1. Why does it only affect me when running with systemd? 2. Why has it only just started being a problem (I don't think I've updated my system...) I tried listing any other users of the sound devices: $ lsof /dev/snd/* COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME pulseaudi 3992 gravelld mem CHR 116,3 460 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p pulseaudi 3992 gravelld 16u CHR 116,8 0t0 521 /dev/snd/controlC1 pulseaudi 3992 gravelld 23u CHR 116,8 0t0 521 /dev/snd/controlC1 pulseaudi 3992 gravelld 24u CHR 116,2 0t0 459 /dev/snd/controlC0 pulseaudi 3992 gravelld 31u CHR 116,2 0t0 459 /dev/snd/controlC0 pulseaudi 3992 gravelld 36u CHR 116,2 0t0 459 /dev/snd/controlC0 pulseaudi 3992 gravelld 42u CHR 116,17 0t0 576 /dev/snd/controlC2 pulseaudi 3992 gravelld 52u CHR 116,2 0t0 459 /dev/snd/controlC0 pulseaudi 3992 gravelld 58u CHR 116,3 0t0 460 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p (gravelld is my user - the same one I can successfully run mpd on the command line from).

My environment has two audio output: HDMI and Bluetooth speaker. Usually both of them work correctly. For example, #this plays sound via bluetooth speaker $ aplay -D default jingle.wav #this plays sound via HDMI $ aplay -D plughw:1,7 jingle.wav However, mpc play doesn't play any sound. My /etc/mpd.conf is a default one except for the music directory. So music_directory "smb://xxx.xxx.xx.x/some_directory" ... audio_output { type "alsa" name "My ALSA Device" # device "hw:0,0" # optional # mixer_type "hardware" # optional # mixer_device "default" # optional # mixer_control "PCM" # optional # mixer_index "0" # optional } I use a remote music directory (smb protocol) and the connection is ok. According to man mpd.conf, the default value of device field is "default". But mpc play plays no sound though I expect it plays via the bluetooth speaker as the aplay -D default command above. sudo mpd --no-daemon --stderr says exception: OutputThread could not get realtime scheduling, continuing anyway: sched_setscheduler failed: Operation not permitted avahi: Service 'Music Player' successfully established. client: opened from xxx.x.x.x:xxxxx No protocol specified xcb_connection_has_error() returned true No protocol specified No protocol specified xcb_connection_has_error() returned true exception: Failed to read mixer for 'My ALSA Device': no such mixer control: PCM The last line may be the cause, so I set the mixer_type field as "none". But still no sound. mpc play successes and the current position (e.g. 00:56/3:20 (58%)) progresses but no sound. How can I use my bluetooth speaker? If I set device to plughw:1,7, mpc play actually plays sound via HDMI as the aplay command above. However, I would like to use the bluetooth speaker. Environment: $ lsb_relase -d Description: Linux Mint 19 Tara $ mpd --version Music Player Daemon 0.20.18 I installed mpd via sudo apt install mpd.