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mpd --create-db doesn't find new files in music directory

Problem: mpd --create-db (as well as mpc update) does not detect all of my files.

I have a suspicion that it might depend on permission settings. mpd runs on machine1 and my music directory is in /home/foo/media/music on machine2 - its parent dir being NFS-mounted on /media.

I can ls or mpg123 without any problem in the mounted directory. The output of ls -l will be the same whether I do it as my own user on machine1 or as user foo on machine2.

foo has uid 1000.

Code:

# /etc/exports on machine2

/home/foo/media ip-of-machine1(rw,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000)

Code:

# /etc/mpd.conf on machine1

music_directory  "/media/music"

playlist_directory  "var/lib/mpd/playlists"

db_file"/var/lib/mpd/database"

log_file  "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"

error_file  "var/log/mpd/mpd.error.log"

pid_file  "/var/run/mpd/mpd.pid"

state_file  "/var/lib/mpd/state"

user  "mpd"

bind_to_address  "localhost"

port  "6600"

filesystem_charset "UTF-8"

Okay, I have now applied a solution that I'm not quite happy with. If anyone has something to say about it, please do.

Did the following changes to /etc/mpd.conf:
user "me"
playlist_directory "/home/arla/.mpd/playlists"
db_file "/home/arla/.mpd/database"
log_file "/home/arla/.mpd/mpd.log"
error_file "/home/arla/.mpd/mpd.error.log"
# pid_file "/var/run/mpd/mpd.pid"

Then created .mpd and its files.