please update to the latest stable version !

[Martin]

The lastest MPD release is 0.17.3 while precise still has 0.16.5 ...

Can we upgrade ? Thanks !

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Martin, it will probably not be updated in precise/quantal repos unless it has a critical flaw. The procedure for getting a pacakge updated in an already released version of Ubuntu is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS

You would be far better off using a ppa or building your own package.
https://launchpad.net/~gmpc-trunk/+archive/mpd-stable

[Martin (ub71-martin)]

Hi Dave and thank you for the answer.
> it will probably not be updated in precise/quantal repos unless it has a critical flaw.

I am sorry to tell that but mpd has been 0.16.5 that for age: what would it cost to upgrade it ? What is the point to release Ubuntu every six month without updating software like that ?

This being said I'm going to use the gmpc-trunk PPA but I remain really surprised.

Thanks !

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Florian Schlichting (fschlich)]

Hi,

as the acting maintainer of mpd in Debian I'd be interested to discuss ways to resolve the diff between Ubuntu and Debian wrt. mpd. As far as I can see, what's left is the apport hook (which I could just add in the next upload), making avahi-daemon a Recommends: rather than a Suggests: (why is that necessary?), and finally the patch to the init script to 'chown $USER:audio $PIDDIR' - that one is wrong, I think, because mpd should run either as a system service under the mpd user, or run from the user's session based on ~/.mpdconf and logging to as well as working with user-accessible paths, preferably under ~/.mpd. This should also fix pulseaudio issues. There's preliminary support for that in an mpd.desktop file that gets put into examples currently, and it would mean disabling mpd on system startup (at least on new installs).

Would that be a solution, or is the "Read mpd user from mpd.conf" patch meant to accomplish something entirely different?

Florian

[Florian Schlichting (fschlich)]

...and let me add: pkg-mpd is an open packaging group around mpd-related software, where Ubuntu people are of course welcome to join and improve packaging for the entire Debian ecosystem!

[Florian Schlichting (fschlich)]

mpd has been updated to 0.18.x in current versions of Ubuntu