Local Scan Error

General
1

Just setup a Pi Zero W with the Pirate Audio headphone HAT. I managed to install Mopidy and the Iris and Local plugins, but when I go to scan my local media, I get the following output:

pi@raspberrypi:/home $ sudo mopidyctl local scan
Running “/usr/bin/mopidy --config /usr/share/mopidy/conf.d:/etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf local scan” as user mopidy
INFO [MainThread] mopidy.main Starting Mopidy 3.0.1
INFO [MainThread] mopidy.config Loading config from builtin defaults
INFO [MainThread] mopidy.config Loading config from file:///usr/share/mopidy/conf.d/mopidy.conf
INFO [MainThread] mopidy.config Loading config from file:///etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf
INFO [MainThread] mopidy.config Loading config from command line options
INFO [MainThread] mopidy.main Enabled extensions: file, local, stream, raspberry-gpio, softwaremixer, iris, pidi, http, m3u
INFO [MainThread] mopidy.main Disabled extensions: spotify
INFO [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Finding files in file:///home/pi/Music …
INFO [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Found 8 files in file:///home/pi/Music
INFO [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Checking 0 tracks from library
INFO [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Removing 0 missing tracks
INFO [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Found 7 tracks which need to be updated
INFO [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Scanning…
WARNING [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Failed scanning file:///home/pi/Music/transoceanic/If_You_Look_Up_At_The_Sky_At_Night___-Transoceanic.mp3: gst-resource-error-quark: Could not open file “/home/pi/Music/transoceanic/If_You_Look_Up_At_The_Sky_At_Night___-Transoceanic.mp3” for reading. (5)
WARNING [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Failed scanning file:///home/pi/Music/transoceanic/Millennial%20Sunset.mp3: gst-resource-error-quark: Could not open file “/home/pi/Music/transoceanic/Millennial Sunset.mp3” for reading. (5)
WARNING [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Failed scanning file:///home/pi/Music/transoceanic/celtic_stream.mp3: gst-resource-error-quark: Could not open file “/home/pi/Music/transoceanic/celtic_stream.mp3” for reading. (5)
WARNING [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Failed scanning file:///home/pi/Music/transoceanic/in_the_ocean%20%28Full%20Length%20Version%29.mp3: gst-resource-error-quark: Could not open file “/home/pi/Music/transoceanic/in_the_ocean (Full Length Version).mp3” for reading. (5)
WARNING [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Failed scanning file:///home/pi/Music/transoceanic/memories_of_snow.mp3: gst-resource-error-quark: Could not open file “/home/pi/Music/transoceanic/memories_of_snow.mp3” for reading. (5)
WARNING [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Failed scanning file:///home/pi/Music/transoceanic/music_for_the_child_inside.mp3: gst-resource-error-quark: Could not open file “/home/pi/Music/transoceanic/music_for_the_child_inside.mp3” for reading. (5)
WARNING [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Failed scanning file:///home/pi/Music/transoceanic/the_whisper_of_the_trees.mp3: gst-resource-error-quark: Could not open file “/home/pi/Music/transoceanic/the_whisper_of_the_trees.mp3” for reading. (5)
INFO [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Scanned 7 of 7 files in 0.218s.
INFO [MainThread] mopidy_local.commands Done scanning
INFO [MainThread] mopidy_local.storage Cleaning up image directory

I did make sure the pi user has ownership of the folder and the files, so I’m not sure how to interpret that error. Any help would be appreciated.

2

Mopidy running as a service runs under the user mopidy, not the user pi. Ensure the user mopidy has permission to read your music files.

3

What’s the recommended best practice here, give the mopidy user access to the /home/pi/Music, or create a new media share in /home/mopidy/music? I would lean to the latter, but I want make sure I’m not breaking something else first.

4

The default Mopidy-Local config looks for your music in /var/lib/mopidy/media, so you could put it there. or you can put it anywhere and adjust the config accordingly. Creating a /home/mopidy directory is definitely not necessary, I personally wouldn’t do that.