Play doesn't work

[hayduke]

Sorry, can't put it much simpler than that.

I'm running the following:

ubuntu 11.04
MPD 16.1
Firefox 4.0.1
Minion 2.1.1

I can see the MPD dB
I can select a song (one that doesn't have a yellow triangle with an
exclamation emblem, whatever that means, where the album artwork I'm
guessing is supposed to be, i got nothing)
I hit the play button
Nothing happens
I can let it sit for over an hour and I still get nothing.

Any ideas would be appreciated,
Thanks

~ Chris

[Aurélien Requiem]

Hi,

Thank you for the return. I haven't used MPD 0.16.x series.
Would it be possible to try to downgade to version 0.15.x and see if you still have the problem ?

Cheers

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[Rüdiger Hausmann]

Hi,
mpd 0.16.x works just fine with minion and firefox smaller than 4, didn't try Firefox 4.x though.

Rüdiger

[Aurélien Requiem]

I've upgraded mpm in the addons list to support firefox 4.
So far, works for me with mpd 0.15.x

Hayduke, what you can try to do is use mpc from the command line and see if it works.
Also, check the sound output is set properly as that might be your problem.

Aurelien

2011/6/6 Rüdiger Hausmann <ruediger...@netcologne.de>

[hayduke]

Hey Now...

Sorry for the delay, computers aren't my full time gig. Thanks for
tips, here's where I am:

I tried to downgrade to MPD 0.15.X but I couldn't get it to compile.
Sorry, I'm not a BASH wiz. Still on 0.16.1

I upgraded to Minion 2 2.2.0 and it's still the same problem.

i installed MPC but like I said, I'm not a BASH wiz. I did a listall
and it sees the dB, but when I did "sudo mpc play" I got nothing. I
know it's not a hardware problem as I can get Rhythmbox to play my
files just fine.

Just for giggles, here's my mpd.conf:

music_directory "/home/hayduke/Desktop/Music"
playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists"
db_file "/var/lib/mpd/tag_cache"
log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file "/var/run/mpd/pid"

bind_to_address "localhost"
port "6600"
log_level "default"
metadata_to_use "artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc"

follow_outside_symlinks "yes"
follow_inside_symlinks "yes"

zeroconf_enabled "yes"
zeroconf_name "ZBox Music Server"

input {
plugin "curl"
}

audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "My ALSA Device"
device "hw:0,0" # optional
format "44100:16:2" # optional
}

mixer_type "software"

filesystem_charset "UTF-8"
id3v1_encoding "UTF-8"

Not sure what, if anything, I've got set wrong. Like I said, Minion
can see the server, see the dB, see the files, but when I hit the play
button nothing happens. If the progress slider moved and I didn't get
any sound, that would be one thing, but it doesn't move, the "From"
time doesn't change.

Any help would be appreciate.

Thanks again,

~ Chris

On Jun 6, 4:18 am, Aurélien Requiem <aurelien.requ...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[George McNinch]

Hi,

hayduke> I tried to downgrade to MPD 0.15.X but I couldn't get it to
hayduke> compile. Sorry, I'm not a BASH wiz. Still on 0.16.1

Well, mpd 0.16.1 works fine for me (w/ firefox 4, in Ubuntu 11.04). So
downgrading probably isn't the right thing to try.

hayduke> i installed MPC but like I said, I'm not a BASH wiz. I did
hayduke> a listall and it sees the dB, but when I did "sudo mpc
hayduke> play" I got nothing. I know it's not a hardware problem as
hayduke> I can get Rhythmbox to play my files just fine.

If "mpc play" doesn't work, the trouble you are having isn't related to
the music player minion.

Some things to try:

- your mpd.conf doesn't specify a *user*. Typically, mpd.conf should
specify a user so that mpd doesn't run with root privileges. You have
then to take care that this user is (on an ubuntu system) in the "audio"
group so that mpd has permission to talk to the audio output.

Here are some comments about that:

http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Sound_Device_Permission_Problems

(those suggestions assume that mpd runs as user "mpd"; see below).

I'm not actually sure what happens when mpd runs as root.

You might create an mpd user (assuming it wasn't created when you
installed the mpd package?), add mpd to the audio group [see above link
for howto...], and add the line

user mpd

to /etc/mpd.conf

Then restart mpd (reboot, or do

sudo service mpd restart

) and see what happens.

- Sometimes mpd acts for me as you describe when some application
(often/usually: some flash-player based web page in firefox) is using
the alsa sound output -- then mpd simply won't play until the blocking
application is closed.

In ubuntu, I can see that this is happening by looking at the "sound
preferences" (click on the volume controller to get these) --
applications using the sound output are listed in the "Applications"
tab).

good luck,
gm

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