Which users are mpd and pulseaudio running as, and which user are you?
Is pulseaudio running in system mode?
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe at d.umn.edu> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have recently started using mpd, and I do not "see" it anywhere in my
> pulse clients or applications.
>
> $ dpkg -l mpd pulseaudio
> ii ?mpd ? ? ? ? ? ? ?0.15.10-1 ? ? ? ?Music Player Daemon
> ii ?pulseaudio ? ? ? 0.9.21-1.2+b1 ? ?PulseAudio sound server
>
> Config file snippet (mpd.conf):
> audio_output {
> ? ? ? ?type ? ? ? ? ? ?"pulse"
> ? ? ? ?name ? ? ? ? ? ?"My Pulse Output"
> # ? ? ? server ? ? ? ? ?"remote_server" ? ? ? ? # optional
> # ? ? ? sink ? ? ? ? ? ?"remote_server_sink" ? ?# optional
> }
>
> Music is playing. (trust me ;)
>
> $ pulseaudio --check && echo "pulse is running"
> pulse is running
>
> gnome-sound-applet -> right-click -> Sound Preferences -> Applications:
>
> No application is currently playing or recording audio.
>
> $ pactl list | grep mpd || echo "Nothing"
> Nothing
>
> When I try to:
> $ paplay some.wav
>
> The volume of mpd is diminished, but not silenced and the wav file does
> not play. I hit ^C to get the terminal back. FWIW, paplay shows in the
> "Applications" section listed above when I run the command.
>
> Any ideas what I have misconfigured here?
>
> Thanks for the help. Cheers,
>
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