I am facing the same problem of high CPU usage by mpd. For me usage increases without necessarily going to the next song... after a while of playing, CPU use increases enough to throttle up my laptop CPU to max clocks. :(
I tried Scott's fix of using Pulse audio but mpd simply won't play when I add the lines in step 3 of Scott's solution. It plays with without these lines... but with high CPU usage. Here are the last lines of /var/log/mpd/errors.log No protocol specified E: client-conf-x11.c: XOpenDisplay() failed May 20 18:38 : Cannot connect to server in PulseAudio output "My MPD PulseAudio Output" (attempt 1): Invalid argument May 20 18:38 : problems opening audio device while playing "shane/my.mp3" May 20 18:38 : problems opening audio device while playing "shane/my.mp3" No protocol specified E: client-conf-x11.c: XOpenDisplay() failed May 20 18:45 : Cannot connect to server in PulseAudio output "PulseAudio" (attempt 1): Invalid argument May 20 18:45 : problems opening audio device while playing "shane/my.mp3" AFAIK PulseAudio is run by the user session. and in my Gnome session I have this command running: pactl load-module module-x11-xsmp Please help me out. Scott, is there anything I am missing here? -- MPD consumes 20-30% CPU after changing tracks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221951 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
