kmbmpdc doesn't connect to mpd

[danbee]

I'm trying to get kmbmpdc running on my Mac. I've installed mpd via Homebrew and got it configured to run on localhost:6600. I can connect to it using cli/curses based clients.

kmbmpdc will not connect to it. It doesn't show any errors, it just does nothing. How can I figure out what is going wrong?

[danbee]

[danbee]

[arttuperala]

I'm not exactly sure what's happening there. It kinda looks like it manages to connect for a moment in that GIF when the icon changes colour briefly. Do you see anything in MPD's log when you attempt to connect?

[danbee]

Checked the logs, saw the line:

Jul 30 16:10 : exception: Failed to open /Users/danbarber/.mpd/playlists: No such file or directory

Created the directory.

All good. 👍

It's odd that other clients don't seem to be fazed by this though.

[arttuperala]

The terrible secret of kmbmpdc is that it's not exactly well made. The error handling is one of the many things that needs to have work done to it.