On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:11:23AM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > This is too baffling to get my head around, I hope someone can explain it to > me: > > mpd is set to run in the default level but if you want to update the > database mpd must first be stopped! Then to top it off, it doesn't > have to be restarted to run the client, ncmpcpp in my case. > > So what does mpd do if it's not required for these two essential tasks? > > Maxim
Most clients that I have used, ncmpc, mpc, gmpc, all have support to update the database within the client without restarting the daemon. For example mpc update will do just that. Greg
