On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 18:37:59 -0600 Bill Barry <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Sat, Dec 7, 2019, 5:32 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 16:46:46 -0600 >> Bill Barry <[email protected]> dijo: >> >> >> Before I give up on Cantata I thought I'd ask for suggestions for >> >> other things to enter in the three boxes. >> >> >This article >> >https://linuxconfig.org/configuring-the-mpd-music-server-on-ubuntu-linux >> >implies that the password is set in /etc/mpd There could also be in >> >some local version of that in your home directory. I have no direct >> >experience with Cantata so beware of this information. >Well just to dig myself in a little deeper. Those three boxes might >create the config file and if so they would not create it in /etc >because a user program can't write to /etc. It would probably write it >to a file in /home/jjj/.config or similar. Also if you really want it >to be available over the network you will have to give it an external >network address like 192.168.1.0 or? Instead of localhost. The same >warnings still apply! First, the two programs (Cantata and Ario) both start up a configuration page asking for the network information. And the popup windows look almost identical, i.e., I think one of them copied the code from the other. Second, after installing Ario and encountering the same problem with it, I installed Rhythmbox, which launched with no requirements at all and immediately started playing an internet radio station that I added to it. None of my other applications has any problem reaching the internet either, leading me to guess that there is a serious bug in the Cantata/Ario startup code. Regarding the mpd.config file, I searched the entire filesystem and found no files *mpd* at all. Yet Banshee and Rhythmbox work just fine. It might help if I had a clue what mpd does, but I can say that Banshee and Rhythmbox not only stream internet radio stations, they also have no problem playing any of my ~1000 MP3 files that I ripped and encoded a long time ago from my personal CD collection. To summarize: I tried both Cantata and Ario, leaving the Host blank with the localhost default, with an without my password. I also replaced localhost with the router's IP address and with the IP address of the computer, both with and without my password. The results were always nada, nada de nada. At this point I must conclude that these two programs should be uninstalled and crossed off my list. Thanks for the advice! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
