mpd, pulseaudio, no sound

[Drolyk]

Hi all!

I have a problem with mpd in fedora 9. When I`m tying to listen to music with sonata I have no sound, mpd.error says:

Aug 17 02:38 : Cannot connect to server in PulseAudio output "MPD PulseAudio output" (attempt 1): Connection refused
Aug 17 02:38 : problems opening audio device while playing "Labels/A_State_Of_Trance_ (Record_Label)-PACK-SCMT/asot003 - Outback-Minds_In_Motion-Promo_Vinyl-2003-TGX/02-outback-minds_in_motion__b1-tgx.mp3"

Here is /etc/mpd.conf :

$ grep -v "^#" /etc/mpd.conf

music_directory "/data/Music"
playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists"
db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.log"
error_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.error"
state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate"
user "mpd"
bind_to_address "192.168.1.2"
zeroconf_enabled "yes"
zeroconf_name "Music Player"
audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "MPD PulseAudio output"
}

After looking through http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/PulseAudio, Im trying to add mpd user to pulseaudio groups:

$ sudo usermod -a -G pulse-access mpd
$ sudo usermod -a -G pulse mpd
$ sudo usermod -a -G pulse-rt mpd

but it doesn`t help.

What I need to do to get sound working?

Thanks

[Drolyk]

As I found in google best solution to remove pulseaudio. When I do this everything works fine

[matth45]

Has anyone found a solution to this? I have the same problem as OP and would rather not remove pa.

[Drolyk]

To work properly pulseaudio should be started. Therefore you need to modify init script for mpd, by adding pulseaudio startup. If you try to do something like:

# su -c "pulseaudio -D" mpd

it wouldn`t work because mpd user has /sbin/nologin as shell.

Summary: If you want to use mpd with pulseaudio yuo need to modify mpd`s init script to start pulseaudio daemon

PS: Sorry for my mega English