MPD Daemon

Information

• Connection:
  • Server: mpd.fixme.ch
  • Port: 6600
  • No password
  • Only accessible within the hackerspace network
• Stats: http://gna.org/projects/mpd-stats
  • Run from /etc/rc.local
  • Generate stats (for now in root's crontab)
  • Scripts: /home/rorist/{generate-mpd.sh,mpd-stats/*.pl}
  • Sqlite DB: /home/rorist/.mpd-stats/mpd-stats
• There's a cron job for root to deactive Repeat mode every 15mn

Music files

• directory /media/disk1/music
  • Permissions: sysadmin:sysadmin, dirs=774, files=664

If you don't have access to the server, you must use the ftp in the password protected share under the music directory. You can then synchronize the database with a simple

   curl https://mpd.fixme.ch/api/update

or

   firefox https://mpd.fixme.ch/api/update

or whatever http client you use. Yep, that's all Folks!!!

Clients

Web

• Some members did a custom mpd client: https://mpd.fixme.ch but it's now borken
• Sources: https://github.com/fixme-lausanne/mpd-wsgi

Glurp

• Very nice client
• Click on PL to open tabs and go to config, just add mpd.fixme.ch and there you go

Sonata

• Sonata crash when people make a full update of the library, apart from this the client is still usable.
• Configuration for the Sonata client
• .config/sonata/sonatarc

[profiles]
num_profiles = 1
names[0] = Foo
hosts[0] = mpd.fixme.ch
ports[0] = 6600
passwords[0] = 
musicdirs[0] = #should be changed to your $HOME

MPDDroid

• A nice mpd client for android. A configuration panel will pop enter the same information as the other client, and voila.

NCMPCPP

• Command line client

GMPC

• Nice GTK client
• http://gmpclient.org/

How to upload new music the easy way?

• Copy the following code to a script file upload_foo.sh

#!/bin/bash -e

lftp -e "mirror -L -R \"$1\" /incoming/music/; quit" fixme:fixme@ftp.fixme.ch

ssh -t -p 1337 foo.fixme.ch "sudo python /home/mpd-wsgi/app/update_music.py"
ssh -t -p 1337 foo.fixme.ch "mpc update"

• Usage:

chmod +x upload_foo.sh
./upload_foo.sh MyDir

Participant

• User:Rorist
• User:Freestorm
• User:Gcmalloc
• User:Francois

Legacy

API

• There is a simple mpd api which will get bigger with the time.
• It is used on https://mpd.fixme.ch
• The api is documented on https://mpd.fixme.ch/api
• If you want to participate or add something, just send gcmalloc a ping.