[PLUG] Stupid network question

[Bill Barry]

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019, 5:32 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 16:46:46 -0600
> Bill Barry <wabarry at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> >> Before I give up on Cantata I thought I'd ask for suggestions for
> >> other things to enter in the three boxes.
>
> >This article
> >https://linuxconfig.org/configuring-the-mpd-music-server-on-ubuntu-linux
> >implies that the password is set in /etc/mpd There could also be in
> >some local version of that in your home directory. I have no direct
> >experience with Cantata so beware of this information.
>
> Well, that's interesting. The article implies that the password is
> in /etc/mpd.conf. So I tried 'sudo nano /etc/mpd.conf' and it opened up
> a new document. In other words, apparently I don't have such a file. I
> tried on my other computer, and it doesn't have the file either. Yet
> other music players stream internet radio just fine, and none of them
> required me to connect them to the internet.
>
> And I just now installed ario, another music player, and guess what? It
> popped up the same config requirements as cantata, which also failed.
>
> What the heck is going on?
>


Well just to dig myself in a little deeper. Those three boxes might create
the config file and if so they would not create it in /etc because a user
program can't write to /etc. It would probably write it to a file in
/home/jjj/.config or similar. Also if you really want it to be available
over the network you will have to give it an external network address like
192.168.1.0 or? Instead of localhost. The same warnings still apply!

Bill

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