Music Player Daemon Crashing

imagreg · 02-19-2005, 03:13 PM

Hi All,

I was wondering if someone can help me out that has gotten MPD to work correctly on their Debian system. I am trying to use GMPC but it continues to crash.
I am using Debian Sid with a 2.6 stock kernel. OSS works just fine for my output through xmms but not for MPD.
This is the error that I get in my errors.log:

libao - OSS cannot set rate to 44100

I have a cheapo soundcard but if playback works through Xmms I figure there is some way to get it to work with MPD. Thanks for your help in advance!

zuralin · 02-19-2005, 03:26 PM

Try apt-get install libsamplerate0

Alternatively, you may have a sound system that only supports 48khz. libao doesn't support resampling, so use libmad/madplay as an alternative.

Is alsa's OSS emulation loaded? Try: "modprobe snd-pcm-oss" as root.

Taken from: http://wiki.debian.net/?SoundFAQ

imagreg · 02-19-2005, 05:57 PM

yeah...i've tried both of those options already. thanks for the advice though. that was the first place that i went. i don't understand why playback would be fine through xmms using oss though and not mpd.