Questions tagged [mpd]
For questions about Music Player Daemon (mpd), an audio server on Unix-type systems.
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What is the difference between hw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0 and hw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1?
Show info on my sound card:
aplay -L
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Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
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Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
jack
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catching the URL from a streaming video/audio
I am trying to get the url of a live stream (from this German IPTV) in order to watch it using VLC and with Kodi, but instead of a .m3u8 file like usual, I am getting a .mpd file and its associated ....
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Music Player Daemon not working, no songs playing
So I just installed MPD together with MPC and NCMPCPP but I can't get it to work. There is 1 song in the database, according to NCMPCPP (Show server info) but there are no Artists or Albums. I ...
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Can i play music on mpd from the controlling device?
Im running mpd server on a Pi 3 and use my laptop and a mpd client to play music on the Pi. I can play music stored on the Pi but can I also use mpd to play music stored on the device that is running ...
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Multiple audio sources to single ALSA device on different bit rates
I am building a audio streamer based on linux for high quality audio. I have several applications that i want to be able to have acces to the audio device at the same time. (like shairport-sync, roon ...
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How to use playerctl with mpd to control music with the media keys for mpd and other players
I used to have my media keys bound to prev/next/pause with i3 like so
bindsym XF86AudioPrev exec --no-startup-id mpc prev
But I wanted to also use other players so I set it to
bindsym ...
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How to create cover art for albums that are missing cover.jpg?
I have a bit of mixed bag music folders going on. Some have folder.jpg, some have cover.jpg and some do not have any album art in them but the songs have album art embed in the audio format. And some ...
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Download all .m4s files of a mpeg dash stream
When I open this page I can see in Firefox Web Developer Tools / "Network" tab that the page loads files with .mpd extension.
And then every few seconds it loads a file/stream with .m4s extension ...
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Search all tags in an mpd library
I'm interested in using MPD as my main music playing application, but I really want to be able to search by record label/music publisher (TPUB for mp3 or ORGANIZATION for flac/ogg).
does mpd support ...
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mpd can only use alsa sound device if run as root - how can I run it als non-root
I try to run mpd on fedora 23 using alsa (pulseaudio removed). However, when running mpd as user "mpd", I get
alsa_output: Error opening default ALSA device: Permission denied
So I ran it as user ...
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Running mpd with local config on Linux Mint
I'm trying to set the mpd daemon to run as the local logged on user under Linux Mint (Cinnamon). I have set the following folder structure:
$ cp /usr/share/doc/mpd/mpdconf.example ~/.config/mpd/mpd....
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Loading an .exe with .txt information
I have the Music Player Daemon version for Windows, running together with ncmpcpp through Cygwin.
Since just opening the MPD executable it won't recognize my libraries, etc, I have setup some lines of ...
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MPD - Hosting a server then playing music from a web client
I have a computer at home which runs mpd, and I have a client on that computer (locally) that can play music to my headphones.
I want to be able to use a web client to access my mpd server, and then ...
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Bad mpd audio playback with fifo enabled
I am using Music Player Daemon (mpd) with ncmpcpp on OS X. ncmpcpp has a feature, the music visualizer, that draws a realtime wave/spectrum of the music you are currently playing.
In order to use ...
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MPD fails to load music
I installed MPD on my raspberry running pidora.
I compiled it myself, so there might be a problem with that.
I configured mpd as it is written in the normal wiki pages:
Here is my .mpdconf
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