Playlists not showing

[mike]

I can not see my playlist in Music Player Minion, When I click on the
"home" icon, then playlists, only "Current Playlist" displays"

When I telnet into mpd, and issue "lsinfo", I get a lsiting of songs
and playlists.

Also, in the left pane, when I click on the "Playlist" dropdown and
click on "Open Playlist", no menu appears - only a very tiny box - a
few pixels big.

I'm starting mpd as root.
I'm running firefox 3

/mpd/music - music dir
/mpd/playlists - playlists dir

mpd.conf

port "6600"
music_directory "/mpd/music"
playlist_directory "/mpd/playlists"
db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd1.log"
error_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd1.error"
pid_file "/var/run/mpd/mpd1.pid"
state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd1state"
audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "Device"
device "hw:1,0"
}

[Klaus Schulz]

My guess:

Checkout the permissions/ownership of your playlists.

Try to change to 666 all of them. The directory should be 777.

I also think it is not a good idea to run mpd as root. This you can change in mpd.conf, if you set the "User". Make sure that all users belong to the same "default" group e.g. audio, if
you run a multiuser setup. If any user generates a file it'll get the same gruop id assigned.  This is the  way I got mpd working in a multiuser environment.
Foreach user I had to run "newgrp audio" to change the default group configuration.

I hope this helps.

Good luck.

[mike]

Thanks Klaus,

It definitely was not a permissions problem. I installed 1.99.25, now
playlist are showing and everything is working well. I read another
theread where someone was having a similiar problem with MPM parsing
the results of lsinfo correctly. Looks like you fixed it.

I like the additional "servers" address book that you added.

Excellent application!

Mike

[Chris Seickel]

Thanks Mike, glad it's working for you now.  That was a bug in earlier versions that is now fixed.