Hello
I hadnt used MPD in a while, i went restart it and everything has failed. Permissions, Audo output and the MPD user. I have gone crazy rebuilding MPD on two seperate computers running fedora 40. nothing seems to work, mostly it seems to be permissions error but when I set permissions for the MPD user, it does nothing. I spent several hours trying to get the “mpd” user to work and nothing. I finally switched it to my personal user account and it now works; however, the sound settings with Pipe-wire don’t seem to work. I have tried alsa, pule audio , and pipewire in my mpd.conf files and all tell me that my audio “device” is busy. I have followed every tutorrial i can find. It seemd MPD is next to impossible to set up correctly anymore. If somebody who is a fedora user can help me PLEASE! … below is my mpd.conf file … and under that is the tail from my log file … I realize this is a permissions issue, but I have tried everything and permutation on permissions and selinux settings , nothing works
/etc/mpd.conf
Music directory
music_directory “/home/fausto/Music”
Playlist directory
playlist_directory “/var/lib/mpd/playlists”
MPD database file
db_file “/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db”
Log file
log_file “/var/log/mpd/mpd.log”
MPD PID file
pid_file “/var/run/mpd/mpd.pid”
State file
state_file “/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate”
Sticker file
sticker_file “/var/lib/mpd/sticker.sql”
User and group
user “fausto”
#group “mpd”
Bind to all interfaces
bind_to_address “0.0.0.0”
port “6600”
Input plugin
input {
plugin “curl”
}
Audio output
audio_output {
type “pipewire”
name “PipeWire”
}
#audio_output {
type “alsa”
name “My ALSA Device”
device “” # optional
mixer_type “software” # optional
#io_uring "no" # disable io_uring if causing issues
tail /var/log/mpd/mpd.log 12:48:53
Aug 06 12:26 : exception: Failed to open “PipeWire” (pipewire); Failed to connect stream: Host is down
Aug 06 12:26 : exception: Failed to open “PipeWire” (pipewire); Failed to connect stream: Host is down
Aug 06 12:26 : exception: Failed to open “PipeWire” (pipewire); Failed to connect stream: Host is down
Aug 06 12:26 : player: played “Richard Wright - 1978 - Wet Dream (2023 Remix by Steven Wilson) (24bit-96kHz)/01 Mediterranean C.flac”
Aug 06 12:26 : exception: Failed to open “PipeWire” (pipewire); Failed to connect stream: Host is down
Aug 06 12:26 : exception: Failed to open “PipeWire” (pipewire); Failed to connect stream: Host is down
Aug 06 12:26 : player: problems opening audio device while playing “Wynton Kelly & Wes Montgomery - Smokin’ at the Half Note (1965, 1973, Verve-Japan) [LP 24-192]/01 - No Blues.flac”
Aug 06 12:27 : exception: Failed to create /var/lib/mpd/mpdstate: Permission denied
Aug 06 12:32 : exception: Failed to create /var/lib/mpd/mpdstate: Permission denied
Aug 06 12:32 : player: played “Wynton Kelly & Wes Montgomery - Smokin’ at the Half Note (1965, 1973, Verve-Japan) [LP 24-192]/01 - No Blues.flac”