FWIW /etc/mpd.conf appears to be installed by the mpd package in ubuntu 18.04. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/mpd/filelist
mpd is a dependency of Cantata, so if you installed via apt it should have downloaded and installed all the required files. Worth noting I guess because removing Cantata shouldn't have any effect on the mpd file, if you are concerned about potentially broken packages. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/cantata On the bright side you can try reinstalling mpd and see if it brings back the file that it's apparently supposed to have. On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 6:08 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
