An audio player which runs as a daemon and can be controlled by clients locally or remotely.
Questions tagged [mpd]
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Get the part of a line before the last slash
I'm trying to write a conky script that shows my MPD album art, a 'folder.jpg' in the album folder. My current plan is to use mpc -f %file%, which prints out the file name and path, and then cut out the actual file name (i.e. everything after the…
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mpd: no audio output with PulseAudio, no mixing with ALSA
I am trying to use mpd with PulseAudio output. Thus I wrote the following in /etc/mpd.conf:
music_directory "/mnt/dados/Musicas"
playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists"
db_file "~/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "~/.mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file…
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ncmpcpp character problem
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
daisy
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How to provoke a broken pipe
I try to debug a python script that interfaces MPD using python-mpd2.
When the script tries to perform an action after being idle for a couple of hours, it terminates with an exception (BrokenPipeError in Python 3, socket.pipe in Python 2 - [Errno…
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How to play the result of "mpc search"?
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
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Stream system audio through mpd
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…
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How to fix mpc timeout error
I'm using mpc/mpd on Raspbian (debian). Running MPD it starts:
sudo mpd --no-daemon --stdout --verbose /etc/mpd.conf
config: loading file /etc/mpd.conf
path: path_set_fs_charset: fs charset is: UTF-8
database: reading DB
disabling the last.fm…
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mpc: access denied when adding mp3 file in a folder under music_directory
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…
Tuyen Pham
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Anyone know a dynamic lyric display application for mpd that works on Arch Linux?
I'm looking for a dynamic lyric display app, not like in sonata, static display in a tab, but dynamic ones, show corresponding lines as the music plays
daisy
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Streaming music to a raspberry pi
I have a laptop and a raspberry pi connected to a soundsystem via the jack output. I'd like to have the output of the soundcard of my laptop redirected to the raspberry through my local network. I read things about mplayer daemon or icecast protocol…
Elie Génard
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How to see what is using sndiod / audio devices
When running mpc play, after it previously running fine and then opening some browsers, which likely try to play sounds, I receive the following error:
Failed to open "sndio output" [sndio]; Failed to open default sndio device
I assume the browsers…
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PulseAudio and MPD
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…
Doron Behar
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Music Player Daemon MPD - Lagging HTTP stream
HTTP stream from my MPD lags, i.e. audio from Pulse and HTTP output are not in sync, with HTTP output lagging Pulse. This also means that starting/pausing/stopping music from MPD is not reflected immediately on the HTTP stream.
Also, the perceived…
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MPD and Chrome can't both play audio at the same time
I use MPD to stream music, but noticed that I often could not get any sound. I finally figured out that if I quit the Chrome web browser, then playback would continue.
This is the relevant section of my mpd.conf file,
audio_output {
type …
Jason B.
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mpd to remote dlna
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…
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