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fork

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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 28

MPD Database Doesn't Recognize the Music Drive (without help).

My default music directory, under my username, has a symlink to my music library on a separate drive. 

My MPD player is set to scan the database on start.  However, the music drive isn't immediately recognized.  I have to click the music folder open, then go back to the player and update the database; then I have my music.

The drive is mounted, but unlike my OS drive, when I first click a folder on this drive it takes a fraction of a second for it to open (with the little symbol that shows it's searching).

kultex

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 1,175

Re: MPD Database Doesn't Recognize the Music Drive (without help).

why so complicated

mount your harddisk with fstab and then enter the folder on this harddisk in /.mpdconf as your music_directory - http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration

fork

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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 28

Re: MPD Database Doesn't Recognize the Music Drive (without help).

Thanks Kultex.  That was the solution.

Open fstab in /etc as root and add a line like this at the bottom.

/dev/sdb1       /media/MusicLibrary    ext3    defaults          0       2