Re: Milestone 2 and mp3s

On Thursday 18 Feb 2010 18:07:37 Al Bogner wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 16:39:58 schrieb Bob Williams:
> > On Tuesday 16 Feb 2010 16:44:08 Al Bogner wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, 16. Februar 2010 17:19:25 schrieb Donn Washburn:
> > > > I built a version 2.2.2 of Amarok and it reports the reason it will
> > > > not work
> > >
> > > I stopped using Amarok as main mp3-player and use now mpd / gmpc as my
> > > main mp3-player. It is worth to have a look at it. There are minor
> > > issues with gmpc too but all in all it fits better my needs. For
> > > editing albums I still use Amarok 1. AFAIR there is a backport for 11.2
> > >
> > > Al
> >
> > Your posting interested me, so I installed mpd and gmpc, and I've edited
> >  the mpd.conf file to suit my setup, but it fails to build the database
> >  with the error
> >
> > sudo mpd --create-db
> > listen: Failed to listen on *:6600: Address already in use
> > Aborted
> >
> > I've checked in /etc/services and port 6600 is unassigned. Any
> > suggestions?
> 
> Sorry not, but I noticed, that one have to be patient until the database is
> built.
> 
> See man mpd and try
> 
> /etc/init.d/mpd stop
> 
> mpd --create-db
> 
> It can take hours until the db is built. An update of the db in the
>  background should be done in a few seconds / minutes depending on the
>  files
> 
> check with top. If mpd is running, the building of the db is still in
> progress. I don't remember the error I got, when I was impatient.
> 
> 
> If a find is running or other things with heavy disk load it can take a
>  very very long time and it seems the updating to a new mpd / gmpc while
>  the db is built was also a problem here. I don't know if I was not patient
>  enough or if there is a bug. After a few hours I stopped it. So I
>  recommend do 1 step after another.
> 
> What I didn't find out till now, is, if the the db is updated after a new
> start of the system. If I have changes I update the db manually with gmpc.
> 
> If you have questions you can ask at
> 
> http://www.musicpd.org/forum
> 
> Don't forget to be up-to-date with your covers the 1st time! Otherwise you
> have to reload all manually. I already said to the maintainer, that this is
> annoying. You also need to define the path in gmpc where the covers are
>  from the beginning, otherwise they would be downloaded from the net if
>  available.
> 
> A workaround is
> 
> gmpc --clean-cover-db
> 
> but this reloads some existing (?) lyrics too and searches for unfound
>  lyrics again.
> 
> I would also like to mention, that my stereo is connected to the server a
>  few rooms away and 2x2 loudspeakers are connected to different rooms. With
>  gmpc I can control this with any client. To do this with amarok, I needed:
> 
> ssh -X user@sv dbus-launch /usr/bin/amarok &
> 
> 
> Al
> 
Many thanks, Al. I'll try some these suggestions.

Bob
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