Hi Andrei, > In the default configuration the user units are both failing for various > reasons: > > 1. Without a user mpd.conf mpd will fall back to /etc/mpd.conf, which in > the default configuration is not suitable for a user daemon. > > 2. The port 6600 is already taken by the system instance. > > Since running a user instance already requires explicit configuration > the user units can be shipped disabled by default, to prevent them from > failing in the default configuration.
I agree that enabling user units without providing a working configuration probably doesn't make much sense - it was meant as convenience, but mpd starting without being explicitly enabled by the has caused confusion more than once. Not sure what to do about the XDG autostart file though... > P.S. the mpdconf.example mentioned in README.Debian is missing from the > package oops, thanks for the heads up! Not sure when that one got lost... Florian