[200] Music Player Daemon (MPD)

[Ericvw]

Hi all,

I hope someone can help me because this is driving me crazy. The past week I have been trying to get MPD to work on my A200. It installs fine (via i-pkg). When i look at the install-dir I see that de database is created so it is started. All looks fine when I try to play a song (I use Gnome 0.20). The progress bar moves but I hear nothing. No sound at all.

I have uncommented the log info in de configfile and after restart it say's somewhere:

Quote:Jun 03 19:17 : config: option 'mount' on line 190 was not recognized

The config file is the default config file. Around Line 190 the logfile is:

Code:

audio_output {    
    type        "httpd"    
    name        "My HTTP Stream"    
    encoder        "flac"        # optional, vorbis or lame    
#    encoder        "wave"        # optional, vorbis or lame    
    port        "8669"    
    compression        "3"            # OK!!!!!!    
#    compression        "0"            # 0-8    
#    quality        "0"            # do not define if bitrate is defined    
#    bitrate        "320"            # do not define if quality is defined  
    mount         "/mpd.flac"  
#    mount         "/mpd.wav"  
    commandstart    "ifconfig eth0:66 192.168.10.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 up;route add -net 192.168.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0:66;echo 'GET /playback?arg0=start_aod&arg1=MPDStream&arg2=http://192.168.10.11:8669/mpd.flac&nop=nop' | telnet 127.0.0.1 8008"
    commandstop    "echo 'GET /playback?arg0=stop_aod&nop=nop' | telnet 127.0.0.1 8008; ifconfig eth0:66 down"
}

When I play a song it say's in the logfile:

Code:

Jun 03 19:17 : mad: detected LAME version 3.98 ("LAME3.98r")
Jun 03 19:17 : mad: LAME peak found: 0.000000
Jun 03 19:17 : mad: LAME track gain found: -7.700000
Jun 03 19:17 : mad: encoder delay is 576, encoder padding is 633
Jun 03 19:17 : decoder: audio_format=44100:24:2, seekable=false
Jun 03 19:17 : output: opened plugin=httpd name="My HTTP Stream" audio_format=44100:24:2
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] process command "status"
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] command returned 0
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] process command "idle"
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] command returned 1
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] process command "playlistid "1""
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] command returned 0
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] process command "plchangesposid "3""
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] command returned 0
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] process command "find album "Captain Freak (instrumental)""
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] process command "status"
Jun 03 19:17 : client: [0] command returned 0
Jun 03 19:17 : httpd_output: malformed request line from client

The malformed request is probably because it cannot find the mpd.flac-file. The commandstart-command in the config file is executed when i play a song. Via telnet I see the extra virtual network card (eth0:66) is created and when I stop playing the song it is removed again.

I've tried different clients but they showed the same output in de logfile (and no sound).

I've tried to comment the 'mount' command but that did not help.

I have tried everything I can think of. Can someone please help me to solve this. MPD looks so promising.

[Grael]

Is it with the very last A200 firmware?

Because this one is different from the last C200 firmware I have, could be related...

[Ericvw]

(06-04-2011 12:06 PM)Grael Wrote:  Is it with the very last A200 firmware?

Because this one is different from the last C200 firmware I have, could be related...

Yes, I updated my a200 a couple of days ago.

[YousvanHalder]

Hallo,
if i open ipkg via the webgui then I don't see any packages that i can download.
How can I solve this problem, I am a Newbie

Thanks

[Grael]

You need to resynch ipkg.

At the top of the page, chose
"synch packages" => yes
"type" => NONE
nothing in "filter"

Then click on "submit query"

[YousvanHalder]

oke now I have installed Busybox MPD and MPC but i still can't connect to minion.
How do I solve this?

Thanks

[Grael]

You should try first with gmpc,
follow instructions here :
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...#pid484789

[YousvanHalder]

Yes it Connecte with gnome but after I played A while and watched a movie i got a Error15 timeout in gnome and it doesn't connect

[Grael]

Trying to figure out your scenario...

So, it works ok with GMPC.
Then if you play a movie on the PCH, then try to reconnect to MPD with GMPC, this time it won't work.

Is it what's happening to you?

(you already have tried a reboot on the PCH I presume)

[mpatry]

Greetings All,

First, thanks to everyone who has worked to develop MPD for c200. Grael’s clear and concise instructions (http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...1&page=14) were instrumental. I have it up and running and I am very happy.

I am wondering if anyone knows if anything can be done to enable volume control from MPD clients. I used to use this convenient feature when running MPD on my A-110, but it seems to be broken for the c200 (have tried Minion for firefox client, and also MPoD client for ipad). I have not run across any other posts about this issue. Not a huge problem, but I would like to get it working if there is a simple fix.

Thanks in advance.

[chris_r11]

I noticed in iPKG that there was a mpd 0.16.2-5 listed. I don't remember seeing any note about a change over the 2-4 version. Did I miss the post somewhere on what this change addresses?

[vaidyasr]

0.16.2-5 is just a repack to fix the lib names.

[idbirch]

I've only just dicovered this and have been trying to get it working for the past 2 hours, hopefully someone can point out where I've messed up. I installed iPkg then busybox, rebooted then installed mpd. I added the path to my network share in the config file but after restarting the PCH again, nothing seemed ot be happening.

I used Putty to connect to the PCH and tried the -stop and -start commands - upon trying to start I'm getting:

"Starting Music Player Daemon: Failed to bind to '[::]:6600': Failed to create socket: Address family not supported by protocol"

Edit: After reading all the threads on MPD in full, someone gave a useful hint about using the killall -9 mpd command which solved the binding problem, the only problem now is MPD seems to do absolutely nothing once it's started. No log file is created at all, the database file remains untouched yet there are no errors when using the -start command. Anyone have any ideas?

[idbirch]

Does anybody have any ideas on this? I've uninstalled it, deleted the old files and reinstalled from iPkg and am still getting the same behaviour. I don't get any complaints when starting it via Telnet, the config file is set to use my network share ("/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/PCH/Music") yet nothing happens. The log file doesn't even get created.

I'm at a complete loss, can anyone please help? I'm running NMT Apps off USB on an A-200 if that's relevant.

[Grael]

Back here... Sorry for the lack of support recently.

(08-28-2011 04:15 PM)mpatry Wrote:  I am wondering if anyone knows if anything can be done to enable volume control from MPD clients.

I just figured out that adding the following line in mpd.conf allow volume control...

Code:

mixer_type            "software"

(09-05-2011 08:59 AM)idbirch Wrote:  I'm at a complete loss, can anyone please help? I'm running NMT Apps off USB on an A-200 if that's relevant.

It may be related. Every path declared in mpd.conf link to /share/Apps/local/etc/mpd/
If the real path is different, you need to modify all of them accordingly.