ok, I now changed permissions on /media/ and it will accept the folder in the config, but when I scan for files I get:
$ sudo mt-daapd -f start
Firefly Version svn-1463: Starting with debuglevel 2
Starting rendezvous daemon
Starting signal handler
Initializing database
Signal handler started
Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689
Registering rendezvous names
Serving 82 songs. Startup complete in 0 seconds
Rescanning database
Rendezvous socket closed (daap server crashed?) Aborting.
Aborting
Segmentation fault