Re: [emms-help] mpd host socket not supported

[Mark Oteiza]

On 08/10/17 at 11:34am, Yoni Rabkin wrote:
> Mark Oteiza <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > EMMS appears to not support MPD_HOST being the absolute path of a
> > socket.  Doing emms-player-mpd-connect gives
> >
> >   /run/user/1000/mpd/socket/6600 Name or service not known
> 
> I understand that this requires mpd to listen on a unix socket and not
> at a particular network address (I don't use mpd)
> 
> Can you please send me the relevant bits of your mpd config so that I
> can easily recreate this set up here? I'd like to spend my time hacking
> Emms, not trying to understand mpd.

No problem. The only config needed for this is

bind_to_address "/path/to/mpd/socket"

then invoking `mpd` should create the specified socket and run.