HOWTO: MPD & Clients.

[schmappel]

I hate to ask, but what calendar is that in your screenshot?

[digbybare]

I get the following when I try to run ./autogen.sh:

########### MPD CONFIGURATION ############

 Playback Support:
 libao support .................disabled
 OSS support ...................enabled
 ALSA support ..................disabled
 JACK support ..................disabled
 OS X support ..................disabled
 PulseAudio support ............disabled
 Media MVP support .............disabled
 Shout streaming support .......disabled

 File Format Support:
 ID3 tag support ...............disabled
 mp3 support ...................disabled
 Ogg Vorbis support ............disabled
 FLAC support ..................disabled
 OggFLAC support ...............disabled
 Wave file support .............disabled
 MP4/AAC support ...............disabled
 Musepack (MPC) support ........disabled
 MOD support ...................disabled
configure: error: No input plugins supported!

I checked in synaptic, and I seem to have all the necessary packages installed, like libmad, libogg, libvorbis, etc. What should I do?

[yabbadabbadont]

I checked in synaptic, and I seem to have all the necessary packages installed, like libmad, libogg, libvorbis, etc. What should I do?

Make sure that you have the development versions of those libraries installed too. They are two different packages.

[digbybare]

Make sure that you have the development versions of those libraries installed too. They are two different packages.

Thanks, MPD's up and running now.

A couple more quick questions.

Right now, I have WinXP installed on partition, Xubuntu on a partition and a shared FAT32 partition. I have all my music on the FAT partition. I tried adding a symbolic link to my music folder in /var/lib/mpd/music. It seems to work, I can cd into it, etc. But when I try to run sudo mpd --create-db, it won't add anything to the database. I think it has something to do with the permissions. Right now, the permissions for that partition are: drwxrwx---. I tried doing sudo chmod a+rwx, and that didn't do anything. I tried actually changing into the superuser and running chmod and still didn't do anything. Also, all the files in that partition are listed in green in terminal. I have an external harddisk that's also formatted as FAT32 which seems to work fine. The file permissions are: drwxr-xr-x.

Another thing, can MPD play CDs? Do I just make a symbolic link to /media/cdrom in /var/lib/mpd/music? And, can MPD access freedb?

[JMO707]

Sorry about not answer nothing =(

I'am really busy with other thing's right now, but if someone wants to take the tutorial and re-make it to correct stuff or update it, I give all my approval to that =)

Respect to the CD playback, it is currently not supported by MPD, but there are plans to implement it on MPD2.

And

I hate to ask, but what calendar is that in your screenshot?

It is gDeskCal

[urukrama]

Why do I not see new files I add to my music database? All my music is located in ~/Music and whenever I add new files to it, they do show up in /var/lib/mpd/music but I cannot play them. GMPC nor Sonata show those files, even if I update or restart mpd and mpc, or if I restart my computer a hundred times.

EDIT: Problem solved. I figured out that a file/folder needs to allow Read & Write privileges to all users. Once I changed that, everything appeared in GMPC.

[andrek]

I've got some problems while trying to install sonata from svn.
After sudo python setup.py install , it gives me lots of errors

[...]
mmkeys.c:124: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘pygobject_register_class’
mmkeys.c:124: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘mmkeys_get_type’
mmkeys.c:125: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘pyg_set_object_has_new_constructor’
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

[el mariachi]

I've got all the libs installed (at least I think I do have the right ones) but when I compile MPD it only says to support ogg - no MP3. Is there any thing I missed? I think I have all the libraries mentioned.

[yabbadabbadont]

I've got all the libs installed (at least I think I do have the right ones) but when I compile MPD it only says to support ogg - no MP3. Is there any thing I missed? I think I have all the libraries mentioned.

What options did you use when you ran the "./configure" step?

[el mariachi]

What options did you use when you ran the "./configure" step?

none. I don't know how to do that (choose options)