firefly not scanning my music

[Anonymous]

Hi all

Firefly installed on Ubuntu. I’ve got access to web admin page, but I’m unable to scan any track from my folder. Log shows this message:

2010-02-19 11:25:28 (b77156d0): Starting mp3 scan
2010-02-19 11:25:28 (b77156d0): opendir: Permission denied
2010-02-19 11:25:28 (b77156d0): Starting playlist scan
2010-02-19 11:25:28 (b77156d0): Updating playlists
2010-02-19 11:25:29 (b77156d0): Error scanning MP3 files: No such file or directory
2010-02-19 11:25:29 (b77156d0): Scanned 0 songs in 1 seconds

I’m a linux newbie, any can give me a hand?

[mas]

The second line practially says it all. The directory you put the music in has no permissions for mt-daapd to read. Not readable = nothing found.

[EVILRipper]

FYI, firefly is often run as user ‘nobody’, so make sure anyone has read access.

[Anonymous]

I know, but I’m linux newbie and don’t know how to solve this issue.

[Anonymous]

At a command line enter:
chmod 777 /path/to/your/music/folder.

Replace /path/to/… with the correct path.

Regards,
Ambre

[Anonymous]

for a permissions tutorial have a look at this thread

http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6017

It related to my setting up firefly on a slug but the principles will be the same for you Ubuntu distribution.

HTH, andy

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