On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:17:39AM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On 17 Mar 09:40, Chris G wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:14:04PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 16/03/11 18:24, Chris G wrote:
I'm trying mpd+ario+ncmpcpp, all looks fairly good to me. One question occurs however - how do you get music into the mdp default directory (/var/lib/mpd) without being root? Do you simply change its default music directory to somewhere more accessible or do you play clever games with permissions so an ordinary user can put music there, or what?
No you change that to some more logical place for music, in my case it happens to be a nfs volume on a media server. No idea why it defaults there.
OK, thanks.
Next silly question, it seems that one has to open up all sorts of network permissions to allow access to mpd from other computers on the LAN. Is this really so? The information I've found about this seems to suggest it's fairly "edit the configuration files" sort of stuff which is OK by me but it feels as if it shouldn't really be this difficult.
Looks like just the one port, to me, and by default 6600, tcp. So, erm, what exact "network permissions" are you meaning?
When I try to connect to my mpd server from another computer on the LAN I get "connection refused", but exactly the same connection from the computer where mpd is running works fine.
I googled for this issue and found a howto/tutorial that went through a whole lot of different ways of getting it to work (to do with pulseadio service permissions and network port permissions and such).
Here's the link:- http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/PulseAudio