Re: [emms-help] Problems getting emms-player-mpd working, and solutions

[Yoni Rabkin]

> In Chapter 25 of the manual, replace:
>
> "If you use absolute file names in your m3u playlists (which is most
> likely), make sure you set EMMS-PLAYER-MPD-MUSIC-DIRECTORY to the value
> of 'music_directory' from your MusicPD config."
>
> with:
>
> "Unless your MusicPD is configured to use absolute file names, you must
> set the emms-player-mpd-music-directory variable to the value of
> 'music_directory' in your MusicPD config."
>
> In the docstring for the emms-player-mpd-music-directory variable, replace:
>
> "You need this if your playlists use absolute file names, otherwise
> leave it set to nil."
>
> with:
>
> "Unless your MusicPD is configured to use absolute file names, you must
> set this variable to the value of 'music_directory' in your MusicPD
> config."

Done, thank you.


>>> 2. To add all music in my MPD database, such that it was listed in the
>>>   EMMS Browser, i needed to create an active MPD playlist containing all
>>>   music (which i did via ncmpcpp), /then/ do emms-add-directory-tree on
>>>   my Music folder. Unless there's some way of building the EMMS
>>>   track cache directly from the MPD database, that i've missed?

I've pushed this issue onto my Emms hacking stack (but I won't be angry
at all if you beat me to it.) About time I had another look at MPD
anyway.


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