[pulseaudio-discuss] New release - mpd has stopped working with same user

[poljarinho at gmail.com]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:49:46AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
>    Reference -
>    [1]https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-November/0
>    32147.html
>    Basically, with pulseaudio 2.99.2 mpd can't seem to connect to
>    pulseaudio. Easy workaround is to play through tcp on 127.0.0.1, but
>    the Arch devs pointed me to this link -
>    [2]http://arunraghavan.net/2012/11/pulseconf-2012-report/ -
>    specifically I noted the 'per-user and system modes' part.
>    I was under the impression this is not yet done, just that its been
>    discussed. Or has something changed since nov 6 when this was posted?
>    Previously mpd run as my own user (ngoonee) would connect to pulseaudio
>    running as my own user (ngoonee) just fine. According to the Arch devs,
>    pulseaudio has now moved to use xdg config file locations and somehow
>    this causes some confusion with mpd.
>    Reading over my email, I realize I don't have a focused question, so
>    here it is - how should mpd users use pulseaudio ideally, and does mpd
>    need updating or is this something to be dealt with with pulse?
>    P.S. - using systemd's logind, if that makes a difference.
> 
> References
> 
>    1. https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-November/032147.html
>    2. http://arunraghavan.net/2012/11/pulseconf-2012-report/


Hi.

Please don't send html mail to the list.
As far as I'm aware Pulseaudio still works as expected with mpd (run as user).
Have you perhaps uncommented the server line in your mpd.conf?

This below should be sufficient to configure mpd with pulse:

    audio_output {
        type    "pulse"
        name    "monolith default"
    }