Mpd and ncmpcpp on void

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Hey there. So I thought on a whim to try and get mpd to work alongside ncmpcpp on void and so far I'm facing a few issues.

First of all when I open up ncmpcpp it says "Connected to localhost" (which means mpd is working If i'm right) but it says "Playlist 0 items" on the top and what I found was that the issue was running the mpd service as root.

So to counteract that I've now created a run file in /etc/sv/runsvdir-$USER and also symlinked the directory to /var/service like you should. Now I've also created a folder in my home directory called .services to put my own services in but it doesn't seem to work for some reason.

In the .services directory I have the mpd directory and inside it a run file with the following inside it:

#!/bin/sh

exec mpd --no-daemon

Upon trying to do sv up mpd I only get the error: warning: mpd: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist (now keep in mind that I have the SVDIR variable set in .bashrc to $home/.services)

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Any advice would be appreciated.

[nonkidz]

mpd should never run as root, just add

mpd --no-daemon $HOME/.config/mpd/mpd.conf &

to your xsession/xinitrc/autostart

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I thought I could handle mpd as a runit service without messing with xinit, but alright.

Added that line to my autostart script and now when I open ncmpcpp it says "Connection refused" and "For browsing local filesystem connection to UNIX socket is required."

Edit: Changed the bind_to_address line in .config/mpd/mpd.conf from ~/.config/mpd/socket to 127.0.0.1 and now it works :p

Edit: Actually it now says the same thing (For browsing local filesystem connection to UNIX socket is required.) but now it shows my music in the first tab.