RaspyFi - Topic: Using Music files directly from local SD Card (RaspyFi SD Card)

komischhh on Using Music files directly from local SD Card (RaspyFi SD Card)

Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:21:10 +0200

I'm a noob too. Where do I have to enter '/var/lib/mpd/music'? I already rooted the filesystem, but I don't understand the last step,how I copy music on the SD Card. Can anybody help.

Thanks forward

Heffa on Using Music files directly from local SD Card (RaspyFi SD Card)

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:36:27 +0200

Charles said

im a complete linux noob. i've done exactly this but i still dont see the folder called music when i put my sd card into my windows computer. do i have to use linux to see the folder?

Do you see any files/folders at all on the SDCard, or is it completely empty
If you do see files/folders, did you check under /home/pi/ ?

Charles on Using Music files directly from local SD Card (RaspyFi SD Card)

Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:47:05 +0200

im a complete linux noob. i've done exactly this but i still dont see the folder called music when i put my sd card into my windows computer. do i have to use linux to see the folder?

AlexG on Using Music files directly from local SD Card (RaspyFi SD Card)

Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:40:24 +0200

Thank you that solved it - As you can tell I am still a bit of a linux/rpi newbie!

admin on Using Music files directly from local SD Card (RaspyFi SD Card)

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:44:35 +0200

Hi Alex,
what you can do is copy your music on

/var/lib/mpd/music

but the best way is to do as follows:

cd /home/pi
sudo mkdir music
sudo chmod 777 music
cd /var/lib/mpd/music
ln -s /home/pi/music

So you create a symlink pointing to /home/pi/music. You copy your music here and update your db and you're done!
Let me know!

AlexG on Using Music files directly from local SD Card (RaspyFi SD Card)

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:56:19 +0200

Hello, I have a fairly small music collection that I would like to copy to the RaspyFi local SD Card and store them on there for the MPD server to use. What would be the procedure for mounting and getting the MPD server to detect this location and share it? - I have tried just copying them to the SD card to see if it would auto-share like it does with a USB drive, but no luck so far.

I need to do this as both the USB ports on the Pi are being used up by the USB DAC and the Wifi dongle!

Many Thanks

Alex