Since my recently-acquired N900 has an MPD client application, I thought I’d finally get around to setting up MPD on my desktop; remote control through WiFi! On the desktop, my music collection is stored on an NTFS drive which I then link to my home directory ($HOME/Music). When setting up MPD, I decided to go through the ‘mpd’ user route; i.e. running the daemon for multiple users: this seemed to make the most sense for handling remote connections. I then linked the music collection directory to /var/lib/mpd/music and had MPD update:
$ mpc update
volume: n/a repeat: off random: off single: off consume: off
No luck. MPD wasn’t finding any of my tracks and the output wasn’t exactly helpful. After some googling and reading through forum threads I decided that it was probably a permissions problem. Of course! Ubuntu mounts my NTFS partition with the ‘plugdev’ group:
# usermod -aG plugdev mpd
Fixed!