I have tried and tried, unable to get MPD working on my F42 Workstation

[numberonelinuxuser (Jason Carle)]

And at this point, I am close to giving up. I would appreciate assistance before I give up for good.

I will respond with any info you want that will assist you in assisting me.

[theprogram (MatH)]

What is MPD?

[numberonelinuxuser (Jason Carle)]

Music Player Daemon.

[theprogram (MatH)]

@numberonelinuxuser

Music Player Daemon

How did you install MPD?

[numberonelinuxuser (Jason Carle)]

No offense, but if you dont even know what it is, how useful can you be in assisting me with it?

[theprogram (MatH)]

OK, bye.

[jedi-master-ck]

Ymuse

[rwaskfedora (Rectangular Waterspouts)]

As an aside, despite your preface I would definitely be offended by your tone.

That said, it’s not a bad idea to search for this sort of thing. It turns out (unsurprisingly) that you’re not the first person to have an issue with MPD on Fedora. Since you provided exactly two pieces of information:

“MPD doesn’t work” and “you don’t know what MPD is? You’re obviously a moron, shut the hell up!”

As such, it’s difficult to help you sort out your issue. See the links below. Perhaps they’ll be helpful.

Help with MPD

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 sett…

How to run mpd on fedora server?

I’m trying to run mpd on fedora server 37. I’ve copied /etc/mpd.conf to ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf. Then: systemctl --user start mpd Job for mpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl --user status mpd.service” and “journalctl --user -xeu mpd.service” for details. The relevent lines form above command I think are: Jan 14 15:43:54 butler mpd[2165]: exception: failed to open log file “/var/log/mpd/mpd.log” (config line 38): Permission denied Jan 14 1…

[anothermindbomb (Steve Flynn)]

My apologies - I managed to mark this as spam and I can’t see a way to unmark it! It’s actually the page for the mpd front end gui it seems, despite having a weird name and an odd description, it’s legit!

[grumpey (Joe)]

Can we take it down a notch please and thanks.

Not knowing much about MPD, maybe start with the suggestions in this post, Help with MPD

Thanks

[rwaskfedora (Rectangular Waterspouts)]

@numberonelinuxuser

Deliberate mischaracterization of what I said.

You may see it that way, but that’s the impression it gave me. So no, not a “deliberate mischaracterization,” but rather the clear implication (IMNSHO) of your statement.

@numberonelinuxuser

Would you take advice on how to fix something from someone who’s first reply was, what is it?

In this case, yes. Given that the person was trying to help and you gave the barest minimum of information and specifically said

@numberonelinuxuser

I will respond with any info you want that will assist you in assisting me.

You were asked for information and dismissed the volunteer that was trying to help you.

@numberonelinuxuser

Second yes, it does not work., I also do not know what fucking information you want to assist with the problem. But I have learned something. Linux nerds are in-fucking-sufferable twats.

Wow. You really don’t want help for this, do you? Did you just come to insult and demean the folks that are most likely to be able to help you resolve your issue?

Good luck resolving your issue. Have a nice day!

[numberonelinuxuser (Jason Carle)]

sudo dnf remove mpd

problem solved.

[leigh123linux (Leigh Scott)]

I use this app to help me setup mpd, it’s suitable for alsa only.

https://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/play/mpd-configure.tar.xz

just extract it and run

./mpd-configure

[rwaskfedora (Rectangular Waterspouts)]

Please mark this as the solution so others can find it easily.

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

Since there were several posts, including your third one, that are bordering on the edge of the CoC and definitely tended to indicate less than “being excellent to everyone” as well as offensive I have set this thread into slow mode.

We all need to take time and address the issue and not become offended about posts nor offensive to others in our replies.

[gnwiii (George N. White III)]

@numberonelinuxuser

I would appreciate assistance before I give up for good.

When asking for help with an issue, you should provide enough detail to allow others with similar hardware to reproduce your issue. You need to ensure that Fedora packages and vendor firmware are fully updated (because few helpers will have time to duplicate the full list of installed packages. It is not always possible to downgrade firmware!).

Posting the output from running inxi -Fzxx in a terminal (as pre-formatted web-searchable text) provides a useful hardware summary.

[numberonelinuxuser (Jason Carle)]

I dont run scripts I find on the internet without reading them. I copied the url for this website from your script, I thought it would be interesting reading about configuring mpd…

[leigh123linux (Leigh Scott)]

The site that originally provided the script is non-functional due to missing git submodule due to broken url.

Here’s the fixed url SON|DA / alsa-capabilities · GitLab

That’s why I provide a complete script.