Mpad - can't get it to see the mpd active on my music server

[patricia1066]

I'm setting up a server with OpenMediaVault and mpd is active, and the config file shows the correct music share.

I recently purchased mpad for my iPad Air 2 and cannot get it to see the right music share.

The OpenMediaVault server doesn't have wifi, I wonder if that is relevant, but it is on the same network.

It can see the library on my Mac mini, but can't play it.

 

There are no settings to deselect a music share, and the developer isn't replying to his forum questions.

 

If anyone has a similar setup I'd love your opinion

[Richard Dale]

I'm setting up a server with OpenMediaVault and mpd is active, and the config file shows the correct music share.

I recently purchased mpad for my iPad Air 2 and cannot get it to see the right music share.

The OpenMediaVault server doesn't have wifi, I wonder if that is relevant, but it is on the same network.

It can see the library on my Mac mini, but can't play it.

 

There are no settings to deselect a music share, and the developer isn't replying to his forum questions.

 

If anyone has a similar setup I'd love your opinion

 

I've had a quick search for OpenMediaVault and found out that it is a distribution for NAS software based on Debian. Normally with a Debian mpd package you would have to configure it from the command line - there isn't a web based interface to configure mpd like there is on some audiophile distros such as Volumio or Moode audio. Can you tell if mpd is actually running on the OpenMediaVault server? Or if it is running is the 'zeroconf' mpd plugin running? The zeroconf plugin is what mpd uses to announce itself to applications like MPad - if it isn't running you would need to type the IP address of the OpenMediaVault server into the MPad config. Maybe you could post a link to the instructions you were following to install mpd on OpenMediaVault?

[patricia1066]

Thanks very much for your response. I set up mpad manually with the settings from.conf file.

 

On OMV it's active as a service, but look here, I looked at the mpd.conf binder both 'any' and the local IP address return the same result.

 

root@omv:~# /usr/bin/mpd --stdout --no-daemon --verbose

Failed to bind to '[::]:6600': Address already in use

 

Current version of conf

 

user "mpd"

log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"

pid_file "/run/mpd/pid"

db_file "/var/lib/mpd/tag_cache"

state_file "/var/lib/mpd/state"

sticker_file "/var/lib/mpd/sticker.sql"

log_level "default"

 

bind_to_address "any"

port "6600"

music_directory "/media/20cd1f58-9bc8-44b8-9490-5c549f7353d1/Music/"

auto_update "yes"

follow_outside_symlinks "yes"

follow_inside_symlinks "yes"

playlist_directory "/media/20cd1f58-9bc8-44b8-9490-5c549f7353d1/Music/"

save_absolute_paths_in_playlists "no"

volume_normalization "no"

Linux omv 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.73-2+deb7u2 x86_64

[patricia1066]

Can you tell if mpd is actually running on the OpenMediaVault server? Or if it is running is the 'zeroconf' mpd plugin running? The zeroconf plugin is what mpd uses to announce itself to applications like MPad - if it isn't running you would need to type the IP address of the OpenMediaVault server into the MPad config. Maybe you could post a link to the instructions you were following to install mpd on OpenMediaVault?

The OMV shows which services are running, and mpd is one. On OMV the mpd plugin has instructions which advises to allow bind to any. The.conf file shows the service name is mpd, the host name is omv, which should be used on manual setting of mpad?

 

Network discovery has about 7 services but not bonjour or zeroconf. I checked, zeroconf isn't supported by OMV.