Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to stop blocking my audio for vlc and mplayer until I fixed this group membership problem.

If you're logging in with systemd, your user should definitely not be in the 'audio' group and vlc/mplayer should be very much able to connect to Pulse unless you have them running as their own user. How are you starting X?