Is there an easy way of installing mpd 0.21.20 or newer in Ubuntu 18.04? The machine has 32 bit Ubuntu.
I currently have version 0.20.18-1build1 from bionic/universe i386 Packages installed.
I currently have a wierd problem: i cant stop mpd from autostarting after reboot. I installed mpd from the official repositorys.
then i disabled it at systemd because i want it to run under the normal user and not as a service automatically:
sudo systemctl disable mpd
after chechking
sudo systemctl status mpd
it was inactive then.
but after the next reboot, systemd still spawns a process mpd.
only solution was:
sudo systemctl mask mpd
But the crazy thing is: another mpd process is still being spawned at startup, with the folder autostart under ~/config being empty and i also start with an empty session on bootup.
The final question: how do i really get rid of the autostart of mpd? i just want to start it manually, thats all.
Whenever I use mpc next or any other player (ncmpcpp) MPD will play the next song and will remove the previous song from the playlist (generated by mpc add /).
My mpd.conf is located at /etc/mpd.conf
And I've not found any directives associated to this annoying behavior. I'd prefer that MPD jump to the next song but without removing any previous songs.
Any help is welcome.
I installed an Ubuntu 12-04 LTS server for a special background music application of mine, where I am using the server with an Asus Xonar DS sound card.
The installation is successful, the MPD is working, the sound card is working with Alsa and its libraries installed except for alsa-oss. Alsamixer is working fine with left/right sides of each channel volume control through Q/Z letters shortcut when alsamixer is open in terminal .
Using the command speaker-test -Dplug:surround71 -c8 -l1 -twav, I can hear every voice message coming out from the card at the right connector, so "front right/ front left" voice message are coming from first output in the card back, while the other outputs are silent..so on.
The problem is that MPD is playing on all outputs simultaneously the same audio. I have been trying various configurations for the last 12 days with out any success, including trying to put mappings in the /etc/asound.conf
Can any body help me achieve the above, or direct me to the right configuration of MPD or asound.conf?
I use MPD, along with the GUI client Sonata to play all my music. It works quite well, but none of my music shows up in the music lens (since I don't use Banshee or Rhythmbox, it's just empty). Has anyone created an MPD scope for the music lens so that my music would show up? I thought I read in some now-forgotten place that someone was working on one.
Thanks!