# MPC doesn't find file

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mpc-doesnt-find-file/4357>\
**Category:** Misc\
**Created:** [October 9, 2020, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mpc-doesnt-find-file/4357 "2020-10-09T09:38:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mpc-doesnt-find-file/4357/2 "2020-10-09T12:24:36Z")

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The path  
“/home/pi/Music/Graceland 25th Anniversary Edition/05 - Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes [Clean].mp3” doesn’t mean anything to Mopidy. You need to give it a path (URI) it can understand, which may or may not have any relation to the path on your filesystem (for Mopidy-Local it currently does but that could change). Use `mpc ls` to browse the _virtual filesystem_ exposed by Mopidy and find the URI for the track you want, for example:

```auto
nick@xps:~$ mpc ls 
Files
Local media
SoundCloud
TuneIn

nick@xps:~$ mpc ls "Local media"
Local media/Albums
Local media/Artists
Local media/Composers
Local media/Genres
Local media/Performers
Local media/Release Years
Local media/Tracks
Local media/Last Week's Updates
Local media/Last Month's Updates

nick@xps:~$ mpc ls "Local media/Tracks"
local:track:Music/song.mp3

mpc add "local:track:Music/song.mp3"

```

mpd and Mopidy have different URI schemes and expose different virtual filesystems for the same media collection. The path for a given track may therefore also be different and should not be considered interchangeable between these two different programs.

Mopidy-File (bundled with Mopidy) has a different approach and the URIs exposed will always be related to the path on your filesystem, but you still need to specify the `file://` prefix so Mopidy can understand e.g.

```auto
nick@xps:~$ mpc ls "Files"
Files/Music
Files/Home

nick@xps:~$ mpc ls "Files/Music"
file:///home/nick/Music/song.mp3

```

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