MPD

LinuxPaulM

Does anyone here use MPD? I have never been able to start the MPD service via systemd as I always got

Job for mpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status mpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details

The "systemctl status mpd.service" command gives me the following

mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2019-04-03 20:38:00 BST; 17s ago
Docs: man:mpd(1)
man:mpd.conf(5)
Process: 16026 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 16026 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

I used to get around this by adding MPD to the autostart applications in the Budgie settings or adding "exec mpd" to my i3 config but now that has stopped working and I have to start mpd before I open ncmpcpp each time.

yursan9

LinuxPaulM You need to provide configuration file to start mpd. I don't know why the mpd package doesn't provided default configuration file.

If you start the service in user mode: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf
If in system mode: /etc/mpd.conf

websterkk

I can't exactly remember the issue that I was having, but I have to start MPD each time as well. This is how I got around it, you could probably do the same thing in a shell script:

bindsym mod4+Shift+question exec mpd; exec gnome-terminal -e ncmpcpp

yursan9

yursan9 Actually, the mpd packages provides example configuration in /usr/share/doc/mpd/mpd.conf. You can copy that to /etc or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd.

LinuxPaulM

Well the only thing that I could do to get around it is add this to my i3 config.

bindsym $sup+m exec mpd; exec kitty --class=ncmpcpp -e ncmpcpp

LinuxPaulM

I figured it out. I deleted my configs and started again with the defaults as a starting point.

My MPD config are now located in the following location because that is where the default config pointed to

/home/paul/.mpd

Need to edit the /usr/lib/systemd/user/mpd.service file

sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/user/mpd.service

Look for this line and edit it as follows

Before > ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon
After > ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon /home/paul/.mpd/mpd.conf

Reload the user daemon

systemctl --user daemon-reload

Start the MPD service

systemctl --user start mpd.service
systemctl --user enable mpd.service

Does an admin have to mark the thread as resolved?

Justin

LinuxPaulM Yes. 🙂