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[jarle]

Hi everyone!

I am quite new as a Puppy-user and are now trying to figure out how
to get MPD (server) working in Puppy. I have tried to download and compile MPD, but without success. I have also tried a PUP I found here on the forum, but it just complained about a missing libshout.so.3 it didn't find (even if it is there and the paths are OK).

The reason why I want MPD-server is that I want to control this from another server with Ampache and stream mp3s from it.

Does anyone know how to install a working MPD-serer in Puppy?

Thanks in advance.

[brymway]

Look here for your needed lib, load it up and try compiling again.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=24599

[Taavi]

This works for me in Puppy 4.12. Mpd.conf file is in /etc.

Here's a little front end for it too if someone wants to try. And three plugins to it. If I remember right those plugins needed glib to work but gmpc itself didn't.

I made these some time ago for learning to compile and these are the first pets I have compiled ever. So if they work I'm happy and if they don't I'll keep practicing.

[jarle]

Thanks!

Taavi, I tried your PUP. It worked like a charm

I am now using puppy on a small thin client connected to the stereo.
and controlling mpd within Puppy from Ampache with all my mp3s on it.
(Streaming from Ampache to Puppy-box).

Perfect!

[trapster]

Here are files that I use for my puppy music server, accessed anywhere thru a browser.

If you use firefox, don't forget to try the minion plugin.

[qcjn]

in ubuntu i make sudo /etc/init.d/mpd start

but under puppy doesn't work ?

so naturally i can't connect gmpc ? right ?

i made the mpd --create-db

[trapster]

Does it start with mpd in a console?
You can put the command mpd in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Does mpc play work in a console?

I believe you also need to load a playlist with mpc load playlistname

I use this to create a playlist using .ogg files. Just replace .ogg with .mp3 if needed. Create a script and place this in your music directory. It creates a playlist called all.m3u. You can then use mpc load all

create-playlist

[qcjn]

ok, first i m using puppy 4.1

i've installed the gmpc v.17 from the pet, and it had some bugs.

installed ncmpc, worked perfectly.

intalled gmpc 13 from deb, was working. Old but working.

So since it worked from deb, might as well install gmpc version 17 from deb, with all the dependencies. Same problem as the .pet

didn't know how to uninstall it, so reinstall the pet and uninstall with package manager, like i did the first time. it worked.

reinstall deb gmpc v 13. it doesn't work. Command bash not found

So now i don't know what to do ??

Installing deb= download to / and extract to / with xarchive.

[qcjn]

ncmpc still works perfectly.

[dejan555]

Looks like we made a pretty mess there qcjn,

[qcjn]

This one is called glurp...It works good

[aragon]

hi qcjn,

to your problems with the 0.17 Version:

newer versions of gmpc need more actual versions of gtk and glib (to compile) than puppy has. as taavi mentioned, the gmpc-last-fm-0.17.0.pet seems to work stable, but the add-ons won't.

you could also look at this post:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22949

i think gmpc 0.15.1 was the latest version that could be compiled is puppy. so this one would be fine.

aragon

[dejan555]

mpd 0.14
glurp 0.11.6
icecast2 2.3.2
+ dependencies,
all in one pet! 5.68 MB
Get it here

Thanks to qcjn for help with mpd & icecast configuration!

First run:

Open /etc/mpd.conf in geany
Edit your music folder path
Save

Open terminal, type:

[dejan555]

Here's MPD 0.15.1 pet, this mpd version has built-in httpd server which means you don't need icecast to stream out!
Example configuration file is in /usr/share/doc/mpd/ copy it to /etc/mpd.conf and configure before running mpd

Download: mpd-0.15.1-i486.pet 139 KB

ncmpcpp 0.3.5 CLI client: ncmpcpp-0.3.5-i486.pet 247 KB

[aragon]