On 31 July 2010 03:11, Rcart <[email protected]> wrote: > In Lucid Lynx (at least with me), mpd plays music through pulseaudio > correctly, but it appropriates of pulseaudio's output. So, while having > mpd playing music, other apps cannot use pulseaudio output 'cause it's > owned by mpd. And this was my workaround: > > Adding mpd user to pulseaudio groups didn't work. So, the simplest way > was replacing the mpd user from the /etc/mpd.conf file by my user > (rcart). After restarting mpd, it will claim 'cause the user has not > permissions on the /var/run/mpd/pid file, and this is solved by changing > the pid file owner to the user (in this case rcart). > > Those lines look like this: > > /etc/mpd.conf: > user "rcart" > > /var/run/mpd/pid permissions: > -rw-r--r-- 1 rcart root 4 2010-07-30 16:30 /var/run/mpd/pid > > Hope that works for those who have the same problem =)
While your method does work for the most part it can sometimes still cause some issues with applications accessing pulseaudio. The patch to mpd in Ubuntu that allows that to work is one I would like to see dropped as running the mpd system daemon as a normal user is not supported at all by mpd upstream. If you want to run mpd as yourself the method I mentioned above is much neater in my opinion. There are more detailed instructions for how to do that on the gmpc wiki: http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/MPD_INSTALL_USER_SERVICE_UBUNTU -- Matt Wheeler [email protected] -- mpd is not configured to use pulseaudio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
