I have a data volume mounted via CIFS over an ssh tunnel. This where my music data resides and I use MPD to play that music. This works well for play back but there's one nagging issue I can't seem to resolve. Whenever MPD is started say via reboot or init level change, it updates the DB clearing the data and rebuilding it.

This is annoying over the tunnel since the update takes a few hours to complete.

I've looked over a ton of MPD docs but I can't get a solid answer on this. I want to tell MPD to not auto update the DB. When there's an update needed, I can kick it off manually.

Does anyone out there know of a way to disable MPD DB auto update?

Any help appreciated.

-Corr