[SOLVED] MPD is missing some directories/files.

Question

Using MPD with Sonata for my music library, as I always have. I returned to Arch yesterday after a short Ubuntu vacation, and got everything set up the way I like it, except MPD is giving me some hassle.
I have a music library sorted by folders in the following way: /music/artist/year- albumtitle. In sonata, It displays the MPD DB as a filesystem view, but omits a handful of artist names. They exist, and they play JUST FINE in VLC (And in MPD/Sonata on Ubuntu, for that matter). So, I've deleted the db, re-created it, checked all my paths, nothing looks supect.
Any ideas?
Last edited by Kyle Carter (2009-04-29 20:07:43)

Answer 1

hmmm so i had it right all along eh? hehe, anyways...
odd that chown -R didn't work; but, if you don't have permission to play it in mpd then you don't have permission to chown it either, you did do sudo chown right?
also, i find this little snippet useful for those cases
#!/bin/bash
# fixit
# recursively fix dir/file permissions on a given directory
# usage ./fixit /path/to/Music
if [ -d $1 ]; then
find $1 -name '*' -exec chown me:me {} \; \
-type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; \
-type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
else
echo "$1 is not a directory."
fi
exit 0
edited: thanks procyon
Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-04-29 21:40:51)