Docker MPD question about Music and Playlist directory (Music directory not found)

[cequalspid]

Question about the music and playlist directory. myMPD is working and I can see and use my playlists and all my artists/albums list under Browse on myMPD. But myMPD keeps showing two things:

Music directory not found
Updating caches

When setting option under <...>MPD connection --> music directory, neither 'Autodetect", nor 'Specifiy' are accepted. Should I just set to 'None'? Or change Docker below settings?

My mpd .conf has the following directories:
music_directory "/mounts/musicplus/flac_music"
playlist_directory "~/.config/mpd/playlists"

My compose file (from https://jcorporation.github.io/myMPD/installation/docker):
- /var/lib/mpd/music:/var/lib/mpd/music:ro
- /var/lib/mpd/playlists:/var/lib/mpd/playlists:ro

/var/lib/mpd/music and /var/lib/mpd/music exist (owned by mpd:mpd) and are empty.

[jcorporation]

1) Music directory not found

This is mostly a problem with permissions. The myMPD log should show details.

• You use an outdated compose file
• PUID and PGID are not used by the myMPD container image.
• If you want to use "autodetect" the paths inside and outside the container for music dir and playlist dir must be the same
• myMPD requires the r+x permissions for this directories.

2) Updating caches

Without logs I can not tell you what is going on. Attaching verbose logs is always a good idea ;)

[cequalspid]

I don't think it has to do with the compose file, six other containers are running. But I removed PUID/GUID and replaced with 'user 1000:1000'.

I was thinking about what you said re:permisssions and realized I was starting mpd with systemd which runs it as mpd:mpd. So I removed that service and instead autostart with local bash_profile.

Now mpd runs as 1000:1000. So that's out of the way. I also chown'ed var/lib/mpd to user 1000:1000.
All local mpd directories are owned by 1000:1000. I can play music with ncmpcpp/mpd with no issues.

Now when I try to connect via the web interface 127.0.0.1:8082 (chosen because 8080 was already being used) it only shows 'Initializing myMPD'. It seems myMPD won't connect to the localhost mpd and I cannot figure out why. (I have no password set in mpd.conf)

Docker logs:

NOTICE mympd Cache dir: "/var/cache/mympd"
NOTICE mympd Work dir: "/var/lib/mympd"
NOTICE mympd Config dir: "/var/lib/mympd/config"
NOTICE mympd Setting loglevel to NOTICE
NOTICE mympd Starting myMPD 15.0.2
NOTICE mympd Listening on http://[::]:8082
NOTICE mympd Serving files from "/var/lib/mympd/empty"
NOTICE mympd Empty dir: "/var/lib/mympd/empty"
NOTICE mympd Pics dir: "/var/lib/mympd/pics"
NOTICE mympd Backgrounds dir: "/var/lib/mympd/pics/backgrounds"
NOTICE mympd Thumbnails dir: "/var/lib/mympd/pics/thumbs"
NOTICE mympd Scripts dir: "/var/lib/mympd/scripts"
NOTICE mympd Smartpls dir: "/var/lib/mympd/smartpls"
NOTICE mympd State dir: "/var/lib/mympd/state"
NOTICE mympd Default partition dir: "/var/lib/mympd/state/default"
NOTICE mympd Tags cache dir: "/var/lib/mympd/tags"
NOTICE mympd Webradio dir: "/var/lib/mympd/webradios"
NOTICE mympd Covercache dir: "/var/cache/mympd/covercache"
NOTICE mympd Webradiodb cache dir: "/var/cache/mympd/webradiodb"
NOTICE mympd Starting mympd api thread
NOTICE mympd Starting webserver thread
NOTICE mympd myMPD is ready
NOTICE mympdapi Reading global states
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Reading partition states from directory "/var/lib/mympd/state/default"
NOTICE mympdapi "stickerdb": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "stickerdb": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi Starting mpd_worker thread for MYMPD_API_COVERCACHE_CROP
NOTICE mpdworker Deleted 0 files from covercache
NOTICE mpdworker Stopping mpd_worker thread
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused
NOTICE mympdapi "default": Connecting to "localhost:6600"
ERROR mympdapi "default": Connection: Connection refused

[cequalspid]

Not that this will help anyone else, but I got it working using local myMPD install.
I think the connection refused likely had to do with permission issues, or ALSA access issues but I gave up on the docker install.

[jcorporation]

If mpd and myMPD runs on the same host a socket connection is preferable. You can simply mount the mpd socket into the myMPD container. I am not a docker expert, but it seems connecting from a docker container to localhost does not work.

The myMPD is initializing message is strange, this was already fixed a few versions ago. I will test this in my setup.