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This script works perfectly, and displays the album cover in my conky.

But the script sends a traceback to the terminal where I have started conky when a song is stopped:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jostein/bin/mpd-albumart.py", line 17, in <module>
    artist = song['artist']
KeyError: 'artist'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jostein/bin/mpd-albumart.py", line 17, in <module>
    artist = song['artist']
KeyError: 'artist'

Can this error be stopped?

Thanks, that worked fine. Another error message that is coming now is this:

Unable to load image '/home/jostein/tmp/mpd.jpg'

Is it possible to supress this too?

Last edited by jostber (2010-01-24 23:22:36)

The image is showing and the message seems to be coming from Conky.

I changed the tmp location back to the original. First it works fine, but when I start a new song from another album the message reappears.

Last edited by jostber (2010-01-25 00:28:01)

Is there a way to let ncmpcpp or mpd itself order tracks by their tracknumber?
My songs show like this at the moment, when looking into any album:

05 - name - trackname
08 - name - trackname
01 - name - trackname
...

What i want:

01 - name - trackname
02 - name - trackname
...

The tracks don't have the tracknumber in their title, but in their id3-tags.
Any help?

*edit* forgot to mention: Tracks are ordered alphabetically right now.

Last edited by regular (2010-02-08 09:19:23)

did you try

sudo killall mpd

try that, they try running mpd normally again.

if that fails try changing .mpdconf
this line
log_file                        "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"
to
log_file                        "~/.mpd/mpd.log"

or

sudo chmod go+w /var/log/mpd/mpd.log

assuming its a permissions issue

i guess its this line

db_file                 "/var/lib/mpd/tag_cache"

try changing it to ~/.mpd/tag_cache

you may then need to run 'mpd --create-db' afterwards.

sorry i haven't got back to you, ive been away for the weekend, anyway by default mpc will start playing a file and exit, so you won't get a continual updating of playtime etc

mpc

on its own should give you the current status, if this is increasing the song should be playing you just can't hear it so it may be your sound setup .
if thats not it im not sure

creating a file /home/on3iropolos/.mpd/tag_cache, if it hasn't already being created would be a good idea, though i doubt its the problem.

also

mpd --create-db

gives me a load of
"added ~/music/foo/bar.ogg"
and

mpc ls | mpc add

gives me a load of
"adding ~/music/foo/bar.ogg"

i assume youre getting that and just edited them from your post?

last thing i can think of, i noticed you

gksu gedit ~/.mpdconf

you shouldn't need to use sudo to do this, check you are the owner of .mpdconf and .mpd/* files

ls -l ~/.mp*

all of them should be owned by you, not root ie look like
- rwx --- --- yourusername yourusername date time file/path

if not

sudo chown yourusername:yourusername /home/yourusername/.mp*

will change the permissions

Last edited by benj1 (2010-07-04 18:30:45)

cool ill add a link in the original post.

That's kind of you, benj1. Just one thing: now the original post says the link leads to "Openbox keybindings", while it should of course say "XFCE keybindings" (or "XFCE4 keybindings"). These happen to me all the time.

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