Comments on: HowTo MPD with Pulse audio http://ankurs.com/2009/02/howto-mpd-with-pulse-audio/ 01110100110101010101011101100010 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jceasless http://ankurs.com/2009/02/howto-mpd-with-pulse-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-789 jceasless Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:18:30 +0000 http://ankurs.com/?p=453#comment-789 Your solution is provided by the mpd wiki, so it's not totally unreasonable (probably better than running mpd as a system-wide daemon, for instance). However this page http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/PulseAudio#For_Distros_where_PulseAudio_access_rights_are_broken implies that simply adding user 'mpd' to the pulse groups (pulse, pulse-access, pulse-rt) should provide a much more localized and secure solution. Your solution is provided by the mpd wiki, so it’s not totally unreasonable (probably better than running mpd as a system-wide daemon, for instance).

However this page
http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/PulseAudio#For_Distros_where_PulseAudio_access_rights_are_broken
implies that simply adding user ‘mpd’ to the pulse groups (pulse, pulse-access, pulse-rt) should provide a much more localized and secure solution.

]]> By: Ankur Shrivastava http://ankurs.com/2009/02/howto-mpd-with-pulse-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-568 Ankur Shrivastava Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:45:20 +0000 http://ankurs.com/?p=453#comment-568 @Marko Well that is the way that i made it to work, if you know about something better, please tell me @Eric Glad to be of some help @Marko
Well that is the way that i made it to work, if you know about something better, please tell me
@Eric
Glad to be of some help

]]> By: eric http://ankurs.com/2009/02/howto-mpd-with-pulse-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-567 eric Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:52:50 +0000 http://ankurs.com/?p=453#comment-567 Hey thank you so much for this this not only fixed my MPD after hours of googling but also fixed problems I was having with skype! Hey thank you so much for this this not only fixed my MPD after hours of googling but also fixed problems I was having with skype!

]]> By: Marko Kevac http://ankurs.com/2009/02/howto-mpd-with-pulse-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-565 Marko Kevac Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:20:51 +0000 http://ankurs.com/?p=453#comment-565 Isn't it a little bit like killing a fly with a tank? Isn’t it a little bit like killing a fly with a tank?

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