Music Player Daemon (MPD) 2009-10-01 Re-Release

[avanegmond]

Post # 25 has some instructions to test if the daemon is running:

Quote:Now check if it installed succesfully:

Code:

ps aux | grep -i mpd

should return:
root 0:00 /share/Apps/mpd/bin/mpc-ird
root 0:00 /share/Apps/mpd/bin/mpd /share/Apps/mpd/etc/mpd.conf
root 0:00 /share/Apps/mpd/bin/mpd /share/Apps/mpd/etc/mpd.conf
root 0:00 /share/Apps/mpd/bin/mpd /share/Apps/mpd/etc/mpd.conf
root 0:01 /share/Apps/mpd/bin/mpd /share/Apps/mpd/etc/mpd.conf
root 0:00 /share/Apps/mpd/bin/mpd /share/Apps/mpd/etc/mpd.conf
root 0:00 grep -i mpd
To test;
A) Install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6324 for Firefox (assuming you use Firefox.. any MPD client will do really).
B) Any client will ask you to point it to your MPD server... just enter your PCH's IP Address and the default port (6600)
C) There should be a possibility to 'update' the library.. For example, Minion has an 'Update' button.
D) Play something

Please note mpd is a daemon so has no inbuilt gui. There are 3rd party gui's available like Minion or mPod. (google for mpd clients).
It uses a config file to determine where it should read the music files from, and it requires to build its database first. So after installing the first time you will need to run:

Code:

/usr/bin/mpd --create-db

The following is from the mpd community wikipedia (here) about the initial setup. Very usefull wiki to read sometime.

Quote:Initial Configuration After installation, MPD won't work until you tell it where the media files are. You do that by changing the ~/.mpdconf file (for individual users) or /etc/mpd.conf for system-wide MPD. You may want to start with this:

port "6600"
music_directory "~/music"
playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists"
db_file "~/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "~/.mpd/mpd.log"
you will need to create the directories if they do not already exist. eg:

mkdir -p ~/.mpd/playlists
For those using linux, if you have a samba server with all your music, say that its share name is ALBUMS, and you mount it locally as /mnt/albums. Then have your db_file option to point at such place, i.e. /mnt/albums. This way, when you don't have the ALBUMS share mounted on your computer you will have your mpddb file with LOCAL files (note that the mount destination should be ~music as well), whereas when you have it mounted you will have your mpddb file with all your music. Note that this will not require creating mpddb files each and every time (just need to run /etc/init.d/mpd restart)