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

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:40 AM,  <poljarinho at gmail.com> wrote:
>> pactl works. My mpd.conf with all commented lines removed is below. In
>> fact I had to add the server line (not shown below, that's what I
>> added to audio_output to make it work as currently, along with adding
>> 'load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1' to
>> /etc/pulse/default.pa
>>
>> music_directory "/home/data/mp3"
>> playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists"
>> db_file "~/.mpd/mpd.db"
>> log_file "~/.mpd/mpd.log"
>> pid_file "~/.mpd/mpd.pid"
>> state_file "~/.mpd/mpdstate"
>> user "ngoonee"
>> bind_to_address         "127.0.0.1"
>> gapless_mp3_playback                    "yes"
>> restore_paused "yes"
>> input {
>>         plugin "curl"
>> }
>> audio_output {
>>         type            "pulse"
>>         name            "MPD Pulse Output"
>> }
>
> Strange the same mpd config works for me.
>
> Perhaps it has something to do with the way you start mpd?
> If thats not the case I should be out of clues. Maybe someone else
> comes along.

I would not rule that out. I use systemd which basically just starts
"mpd --no-daemon" as root. Thanks for trying to help and checking
things out, will await more comments from others.