This is a clean slate though i literally just installed it the only diifference is using rmpc but i don’t think that is the problem and i followed this guide Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up and Using MPD and it was helpful however for some reason when i set the pid directory to what i would prefer i get 2 types of errors it either says “thats directory” or “no file exists” does the program itself not create the pid file? if so how do i create one? this isn’t a huge deal it just means when i run mpd —kill it does nothing so anytime i make a change i have to just restart my whole system the funny thing is i set the pid directory to ~/.config/mpd/pid like the arch wiki says to but then i get those errors even though the directory exists and its the same thing with the log and db file but really the only one that seems to be causing the problem is the pid file. The main issue i am having is setting up the audio output to alsa i have seen a million threads and looked over all the documentation for it but none of it seems very straight forward or if a fix works for one person it doesn’t seem to work for me it also doesn’t help that a lot of the guides say “uncommend line 252 where it says this” but when i go to that in my config it is slightly different even though I’m using the example one so I’m assuming that is just do to the guide being old but anyway with the audio output this is what i have. Now i assume i have the device set incorrectly so that is what i am currently working on is figuring out what the actual device is but what confuses me is when i see exaples of other peopes configs it doesn’t look like mine and I’m a little fuzzy on what lines i need to leave commended and what to uncommend. Heres some screenshots with the audio output I’m just confsed as to what lines i have to uncommend and I’m not sure what to put under device i think its (sysdefault:CARD=Generic_1) according to the aplay –list-pcm command and i know the wiki says to change “hardware” so software but aside from that I’m a little lost. As far as the pid db and log lines i just recommended them because even though i have it set to the right directory i get errors or it acts like the pid file is in a complete different place than what i have it set to so idk what else to do i made the same directory as the arch wiki page says the folders exist and i even have the folders set to read/write so I’m just kind of at a loss with that.
