Please help me with my conky and MPD

Döbbie03 · 2016-06-07 23:36:19

Can anyone please help me with my conky and MPD. For some reason I only get a "null" rather than the album details.

This is my config:

alignment bottom_left
background no
border_margin 5
border_width 5
default_color 454545  #454545 # grey 5f5f5f 3F3F3F 183149 3B3B3B 26211F
double_buffer yes
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
gap_x 10
gap_y 15
maximum_width 1500
minimum_size 1800 0
no_buffers yes
override_utf8_locale yes
own_window yes
own_window_title conky
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_color 000000
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_page
own_window_class conky
text_buffer_size 8000
total_run_times 0
update_interval 1
uppercase no
use_xft yes
xftalpha 1
xftfont Raleway:pixelsize=9

#	Distric-Thin			fonts
#	Blue Highway
#	Raleway
#	Zekton
#	Calibri
#	Engebrechtre
#	Opeln2001
#	AvantGarde LT ExtraLight
#	AvantGarde LT ExtraLight
#4D6A86

own_window_colour 000000
TEXT
${color #454545}${font BankGothic Md BT:pixelsize=20}${mpd_artist}
${color #454545}${font BankGothic Md BT:pixelsize=20}$mpd_album - $mpd_title ${font BankGothic Md BT:pixelsize=10}(${mpd_elapsed} / ${mpd_length})
${color #454545}${font BankGothic Md BT:pixelsize=10}${mpd_bitrate} kbps

Eraph · 2016-06-08 00:17:30

Are you getting any of the details correctly? Artist, album, song title, elapsed, length or bitrate? Which ones are coming back null?

Döbbie03 · 2016-06-08 00:22:14

Eraph wrote:

Are you getting any of the details correctly? Artist, album, song title, elapsed, length or bitrate? Which ones are coming back null?

All of them are coming back null. I last used this config about 12 months ago and it worked perfectly.

Eraph · 2016-06-08 00:37:21

Dunno mate, as far as I can tell your Conky config looks fine according to the Conky Objects page. Looks to me like some kind of disconnect between Conky and MPD.
Unless this has something to do with it?

Conky Objects wrote:

mpd_artist | Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile

Sector11 · 2016-06-08 01:18:57

Split from the "Show us your conky"

Please post conky support questions here.

Installing mpd to see if I have the same problem.

@Dobbie03 - did you install recommeds and or suggests?

Suggested packages:
  adplug-utils dnet-common libroar-plugins-universal roaraudio-server libmuroar0 slpd socat openslp-doc
  icecast2 mpd-client pulseaudio
Recommended packages:
  freepats

Sector11 · 2016-06-08 01:26:41

OOPS!

 07 Jun 16 @ 22:25:50 ~
  $ mpd
errno: failed to open log file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log" (config line 38): Permission denied

EDIT: A minor point:

border_margin

is depreciated for one of the first two - border_width remains

border_inner_margin
Inner border margin in pixels (the margin between the border and text).
border_outer_margin
Outer border margin in pixels (the margin between the border and the edge of the window).
border_width
Border width in pixels.

Last edited by Sector11 (2016-06-08 01:32:02)

Sector11 · 2016-06-08 01:52:20

OK, I saw this on the install and ignored it - removed mpd and them auto-removed what it needed and started another install:

Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of samba-libs (→ 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2) <Outstanding>
 b1 - #821002 - samba: Error upgrading from deb8u1 to deb8u2. Missing Replaces for libsmbd-base.so.0
Summary:
 samba-libs(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]

This may be a part of the problem.

Döbbie03 · 2016-06-08 02:28:05

Apologies for posting in the wrong spot.

I am at a total loss here. I'm going to keep digging. Thanks for the help so far.

Döbbie03 · 2016-06-08 02:42:44

So I recompiled conky and added -D BUILD_MPD=ON \

The bitrate is showing up but nothing else.

#1 2016-06-07 23:36:19

Please help me with my conky and MPD

#2 2016-06-08 00:17:30

Re: Please help me with my conky and MPD

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Re: Please help me with my conky and MPD

#4 2016-06-08 00:37:21

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#5 2016-06-08 01:18:57

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