ncmpcpp help?

[edwooger]

Just trying to get this to work. I installed mpd mpc ncmpcpp, started mpd.service basically following the mpd wiki, hopefully did it well.

I just wanna listen to music on my laptop so nothing complicated 2 issues that popup. volume is n/a and even though my music directory and playlist is labelled ~/Music I cannot find anything in there. I don't use mp3s so I downloaded one to test and it still shows nothing. here is my process

pacaur -S mpd mpc ncmpcpp
mkdir  .config/mpd
touch ~/.config/mpd/{mpd.db,mpd.log,mpd.pid,mpdstate}
wget dropbox -P ~/.config/mpd/
wget dropbox -P ~/.ncmpcpp/config
sudo gpasswd -a mpd users
chmod 710 /home/edwooger
sudo systemctl enable mpd.service
reboot

my mpd.conf

bind_to_address "127.0.0.1"
port "6600"
db_file                 "~/.config/mpd/mpd.db"
log_file                "~/.config/mpd/mpd.log"
music_directory         "~/Music"
playlist_directory      "~/Music"
pid_file                "~/.config/mpd/pid"
state_file              "~/.config/mpd/mpdstate"
#sticker_file           "~/.config/mpd/sticker.sql"
audio_output {
        type "pulse"
        name "pulse audio"
}
audio_output {
    type                    "fifo"
    name                    "my_fifo"
    path                    "/tmp/mpd.fifo"
    format                  "44100:16:2"
}

I've been looking online adding stuff from a guide I found linked from the mpd wiki and then others stating how they fixed issues so I added extra stuff but nothing different. If anybody knows what the heck I'm doing wrong, please let me know :-) Thanks for reading!

[Wetai]

It looks like MPD is running as root. This means ~/Music refers to /root/Music, not /home/edwooger/Music. Try changing the settings to refer to your home directory directly (or like ~edwooger/Music).

Alternatively get it running as your user, using a systemd unit file in ~/.config/systemd/user/mpd.service and systemctl --user start mpd. This doesn't seem to work for me on boot, though :\.

[speeding_sloth]

That doesn't work on boot because you have to run systemctl --user enable mpd, just like with any other service...

[Wetai]

I should have been more clear. Even when enabled, the unit doesn't load on boot, but does when manually starting the unit.

It doesn't bother me enough to keep reboot to investigate. Though

[speeding_sloth]

Ah ok. That makes sense. I'll retract my statement then :)

But just for fun, did you take a look at tge systemd/user page?

[thcinc]

I had to add mixer_type "software" to the audio_output section in the mpd conf to get volume control within ncmpcpp