"remote button" under mpd in music player software,fails with "unable to connect:

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I have snakeoil 1.26 updated to 1.27 installed on a raspberry pi. I am using MPD (0.23.5)  through a usb dac (modi3). Sound is excellent and all of the control panels appear to work. The one hiccup is the remote icon in the software section at the end of the mpd listing "remote" fails with an unable to connect error. I have restarted, used different browsers, etc but the error continues. It looks like mympd should be starting (a mouseover on the icon reads mympd). I can partially control mpd from a remote client on my windows computer, or android phone. but not from the snakeoil web app. Any suggestions?

John

fixed.

Hi John, please post your solution on how you fixed it. I believe others have the same issue, and your experience here would help others. Thanks

Sorry, I got carried away with mympd and playing music.. :

I fixed the issue by trying to start mympd from command line and learned that libid3tag.so.0 was not installed. After a few attempts I installed libid3tag* which I knew would probably install the missing files. It did.  I tried to start it again and it started but stopped with an error about its config directory"/var/lib/mympd/config". The directory was there along with a "state" directory, but the config directory was owned by root, and not writeable to user mympd so I changed the permissions to 777 as the easiest solution. I assumed user mympd would be writing the config file ? Anyway I restarted my pi, reloaded the snakeoil webapp, went to the music player section hit the remote icon and bam! I had mympd. I knew something like it must be in the music mpd section and it started my searches of the snakeoil os forums for clues. I am not saying this is the approved solution, there are more elegant ways I would assume - world writeable directories are usually frowned upon - but I am the only one using the machine so I took a short cut. Anyway I am thrilled with snake oil after a few years with moode. And will be making a second "donation" now that I see what it is..

John