MPD stops playing immediately

danlel · 12-24-2014, 03:24 PM

I'm using Slackware 14.1 in VirtualBox. I installed the mpd 0.19 SlackBuild package. When I attempt to play music from mpc or ncmpcpp, there's a distorted noise for about one second and then it suddenly stops playing.

This is my mpd.conf:

Code:

music_directory "~/music"
playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists"
db_file "~/.mpd/database"
log_file "~/.mpd/log
pid_file "~/.mpd/pid"
state_file "~/.mpd/state"
sticker_file "~/.mpd/sticker.sql"
user "danlel"
#group "audio"
#bind_to_adress "any"
#port "6600"
auto_update "yes"
auto_update_depth "3"
audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "My ALSA Device"
}

My mpd log file:

Code:

[player: played "And I'm Home.mp3"
Dec 24 17:15 : client: [0] closed
Dec 24 17:15 : client: [0] opened from 127.0.0.1:34663
Dec 24 17:15 : player: played "And I'm Home.mp3"
Dec 24 17:15 : player: played "And I'm Home.mp3"
Dec 24 17:15 : player: played "And I'm Home.mp3"
Dec 24 17:15 : player: played "And I'm Home.mp3"
Dec 24 17:18 : client: [0] closed
Dec 24 17:27 : client: [0] opened from 127.0.0.1:34670
Dec 24 17:27 : player: played "And I'm Home.mp3"
Dec 24 17:27 : client: [0] closed
Dec 24 17:28 : client: [0] opened from 127.0.0.1:34671
Dec 24 17:28 : player: played "And I'm Home.mp3"
Dec 24 17:28 : player: played "And I'm Home.mp3"
Dec 24 17:28 : client: [0] closed

And the output of mpd --verbose

Code:

config_file: loading file /home/danlel/.mpd/mpd.conf
Dec 24 17:58 : server_socket: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in use (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded)
Dec 24 17:58 : path: SetFSCharset: fs charset is: UTF-8
Dec 24 17:58 : libsamplerate: libsamplerate converter 'Fastest Sinc Interpolator'
Dec 24 17:58 : vorbis: Xiph.Org libVorbis 1.3.3
Dec 24 17:58 : sndfile: libsndfile-1.0.25
Dec 24 17:58 : db: reading DB
Dec 24 17:58 : curl: version 7.31.0
Dec 24 17:58 : curl: with OpenSSL/1.0.1c

One thing I noticed is that there's no mpd user, but I don't know if it is related to this behavior. Shouldn't it be created during the installation process?

Thanks in advance

mrclisdue · 12-25-2014, 08:01 AM

I could be wayyyy off base here, as it's my understanding that a when a conf file is read, any line that is commented (preceded by a '#') it is ignored, but there is a typo in the 'bind_to_address' line.

Further along those lines, force a bind to localhost, or perhaps an active network interface, and see if that has an effect.

cheers,

danlel · 12-25-2014, 11:40 AM

Yes, that's because I tried uncommenting it and replacing "any" with "localhost" and "127.0.0.1" but I kept getting the same errors. Moreover, I uncommented the group line and got this:

Code:

Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "status"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "currentsong"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "status"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "currentsong"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "status"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "currentsong"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "status"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "currentsong"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "status"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "currentsong"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "status"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] process command "currentsong"
Dec 25 04:44 : client: [6] command returned 0

However, I then started mpd as root and there were no errors. I will try setting it up system-wide instead of doing the local configuration.
Edit: it doesn't work as root either.