I was doing some hardware shuffling and as part of that I swapped out the laptop which I use as an extra terminal and also doubles as print spooler and music streamer. The Ubuntu install was easy as usual and I managed to sync my usual stuff across. The other part that was missing was to set up mpd.
Install wasn't hard since I only had to bring across the old config file. Then I had some issues with getting it to play. I tracked this down to the fact that I was logged in as myself already and mpd was attempting to access the sound device as the mpd user.
To work around that I dug through some of the alsa docs and set up a software mixer device. I simply put the following into /etc/asound.conf
pcm.dmix0 { type dmix ipc_key 673138 ipc_key_add_uid false # let multiple users share ipc_perm 0666 # IPC permissions for multi-user sharing (octal, default 0600) slave { pcm "hw:0,0" rate 48000 period_time 80000 buffer_time 320000 period_size 4096 buffer_size 16384 } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } # 'dsp0' is espected by OSS emulation etc. pcm.dsp0 { type plug slave.pcm "dmix0" } ctl.dsp0 { type hw card 0 } pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "dmix0" } ctl.!default { type hw card 0 }
That made it possible for the mpd daemon to start playing music again.
\\@matthias