Pipewire & mpd not working

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I have setup pipewire and everything works for except mpd. (alsa)
(working with pipewire = mpv , firefox , tauon music box)

I run mpd as a system server not as user. I’m not sure if I need to change this to user, as pipewire seems to run as user only not system.

I have also removed any trace of pulseaudio. Only need alsa

$ systemctl --user status mpd.service
○ mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/mpd.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: × mpd.socket
       Docs: man:mpd(1)
             man:mpd.conf(5)


 $ systemctl status mpd.service
● mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service.d
             └─00-arch.conf
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2023-01-02 15:29:58 AEST; 3h 23min ago
TriggeredBy: ● mpd.socket
       Docs: man:mpd(1)
             man:mpd.conf(5)
   Main PID: 504 (mpd)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 38399)
     Memory: 91.4M
        CPU: 1.716s
     CGroup: /system.slice/mpd.service
             └─504 /usr/bin/mpd --systemd

Jan 02 15:29:35 archlabs-dk systemd[1]: Starting Music Player Daemon...
Jan 02 15:29:37 archlabs-dk mpd[504]: Ignoring the 'pid_file' setting in systemd mode
Jan 02 15:29:37 archlabs-dk mpd[504]: Jan 02 15:29 : decoder: Decoder plugin 'wildmidi' is unavailable: configuration file>
Jan 02 15:29:58 archlabs-dk systemd[1]: Started Music Player Daemon.
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part of my mpd.conf

##audio_output {
##	type		"pipewire"            <<<<<<<< I have no sound if use pipewire.
##	name		"Pipewire Sound Server"
##	buffer_time   "50000"  # (50ms); default is 500000 microseconds (0.5s)
##}

# An example of an ALSA output:
#
audio_output {
	type		"alsa"
	name		"Alsa"
    device		"hw:1,0"	# optional
	buffer_time   "50000"  # (50ms); default is 500000 microseconds (0.5s)
}

Thanks for any help.

2

Do you have pipewire-alsa installed? I don’t know if that will help just a thought. I use mpd with pipewire and run it as user instead of system.

3

Thanks for replying yes I have pipewire-alsa installed.

I may change mpd to usr ~/.config

4

Only when you run mpd in per-user mode.

Your mpd is running on the same machine?

5

All good yes same machine.
Changed my mind on this will keep mpd as system server mode.
It’s all about alsa not really pipewire for a home user like me, with a dac and speakers. And at the moment not even using the dac as I have way better control over sound just using the keyboard and 1220a OBS. Plus I would like to try optical which my dac does not have trs only.

At 64 half deaf keep dreaming old man.

Thanks anyway

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I’m sorry I installed pipewire crackling at the start of UT movies, have tried everything I can fine on line nothing seems to work. mpv is a bit so so at the start of movies too.

Just glad I can still run mpd with alsa.

Remember if you install full pipewire it is very hard to remove it.

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