Re: Emms not working with MPD

[Yoni Rabkin]

Alexis Praga <alexis.praga@gmail.com> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:
>> It should work, at its simplest, if you invoke:
>>
>>     emms-player-mpd-connect
>>
>> ...followed by:
>>
>>     emms-player-mpd-update-all
>>
>> Can you please do that and report back?
>>
>> --
>>    "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
>
> Hi, and thanks for the quick answer.
>
> Running the two commands shows "Updating database with ID 1". I can head
> the hard drive spinning but when I try to run `emms-smart-browse`, I
> only have one sub-sub folder and nothing is added. Music plays fine for
> this folder, though.
>
> Trying to use `emms-player-update-directory` fails with "Could not
> update database".
>
> Running `emms-player-mpd-update-all-reset-cache` shows almost immediately
> "Updating finished" but is stuck with "Dumping MusicPD data to
> cache...".".

Perhaps you need to reset the cache.

If it still doesn't work we'll need a more detailed recipe to recreate
the problem, since what you've described so far works fine here.

Perhaps someone with more mpd experience will be able to chime in as
well.

-- 
   "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"