[arch-general] mpd fails to start

[Madhurya Kakati]

On 06/10/2011 10:21 PM, Richard Schütz wrote:
> Am 10.06.2011 18:47, schrieb Madhurya Kakati:
>> Hello,
>> Recently mpd has stopped working. It doesn't start up at boot and when i
>> run "rc.d start mpd" I get this error /etc/rc.d/mpd: line 6: 24502
>> Aborted                 /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf&>/dev/null.
>> I am using gnome3(if thats somehow causing the problem.) I believe its
>> due to some ALSA pulseaudio mixup but I am not sure.
>> However if I run "sudo mpd" I get this output:
>> [papul at papuldesktop ~]$ sudo mpd
>> output: No "audio_output" defined in config file
>> output: Attempt to detect audio output device
>> output: Attempting to detect a alsa audio device
>> output: Successfully detected a alsa audio device
>>
>> and after that if I run "mpc play" I get this:
>> [papul at papuldesktop ~]$ mpc play
>> Metallica - The Unforgiven II
>> [paused]  #4/8   0:00/6:36 (0%)
>> volume: n/a   repeat: off   random: off   single: off   consume: off
>> ERROR: problems opening audio device
>>
>> Please help coz I haven't been able to listen to music for quite
>> sometime now. :(
>
> Did you try to configure MPD to use PulseAudio then? (see [1])
>
> [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPD
>
how do I check if I am using pulseaudio or alsa or whatever else there is?

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