cava not working(solved)

[huyducnguyen1198]

I am using Arch.
I have tried installing cava from distinct ways.
my mpd is working just fine.
I can run it, but it is not working. there is just a blank terminal screen, nothing jumps.
I have edited the config file many ways, but.
how can i fix it?

[karlstav]

@LordNDHuy are you using pulseaudio, alsa or fifo?

[huyducnguyen1198]

@karlstav for mpd, i set up all three methods
for cava, i have tried using each of them, as well as all of them.

[karlstav]

fifo should work well for mpd. How do you configure mpd and cava for fifo?

[huyducnguyen1198]

this is my mpd
audio_output { type "fifo" name "my_fifo" path "/tmp/mpd.fifo" format "44100:16:2" }
this is cava
[input] method=fifo source=/tmp/mpd.fifo
is there any problem?

[karlstav]

is it actually in one line in the config file? I think it must be separated by line breaks.

[input] 
method = fifo 
source = /tmp/mpd.fifo

[huyducnguyen1198]

yeah yeah sorry
my false.
it is separated by line breaks.
is there anything wrong beside that??

[karlstav]

no, the config looks fine.

can you be experiencing the same as issue #109 ?

[huyducnguyen1198]

yeah kind of.
it appears to be a blank screen, and there is a row in the bottom if i change the background color. it tried the noncurses thing, but it is still the same, and the terminal seemed to be not responding.
i also use tty mode, it is not stable, just columns of no. 8 with no.1 on the top.

[karlstav]

but where the bars moving in tty mode? see #116 for the issue with the numbers.

[huyducnguyen1198]

yes, i fixed it in tty. it is column-shaped now. but it doesnot jump.
beside i need it to work on terminal.
sorry for bothering you so much XD.

[huyducnguyen1198]

It seems that file mpd.fifo is the problem.
since my ncmpcpp visualizer does not work, either. ~~.

[bullheadandplato]

mine is also not working. I'm using Arch Linux with i3wm and the terminal is urxvt. Any solution?

[karlstav]

@LordNDHuy you can check if there is anything there at all by running cat /tmp/mpd.fifo when music is playing. You should see a lot of giberish in the terminal.

@mosamabinomar I think we need more info from you in order to help. Source? (pulse, alsa, mpd) config... Error message, blank terminal, bars lying still in the bottom of the terminal?

[huyducnguyen1198]

sorry for late reply, ive been alitte busy.
yeah it got some kind of symbols jumping. moreover, it looks just like when i run cava with
[output]
method = raw

[karlstav]

@LordNDHuy it means the fifo is working. Maybe there is a problem with file permissions, even though I doubt it. I'm kinda running out of ideas

[huyducnguyen1198]

do you think it is the font problem?

Since it looks like this?

[karlstav]

is this when you run cava?

[huyducnguyen1198]

it is when
[output]
method = raw

[karlstav]

ok, it is supposed to look like that, how does it look when you set method = ncurses?

[huyducnguyen1198]

only using raw will it show something on the window. none of the others works.

[karlstav]

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[bullheadandplato]

the problem, in my case, was my windows manager. I was using i3wm, after switching to gnome, cava worked.

[huyducnguyen1198]

sorry XD, but what do u mean by changing font?
what i am supposed to do?? since i seem to get some problem with fonts in other stuffs.

[karlstav]

it's a long shot but cava uses chrachters do draw the bars so changing the font might give us some indication of whats wrong.

Is there a completley blanc screen when it is not working or is it a line at the bottom?

[huyducnguyen1198]

It completely blank just like this

u can see there is a row at the bottom but it is not actually a line, i think.

[karlstav]

is that row part of cava? Does it change color with the foreground-color parameter?

[huyducnguyen1198]

yeah maybe, ive done so.anyway i just think so. since if i use the terminal window as floating mode, there is no such row. it seems to be getting alittle difficult XD

[karlstav]

yes it is getting tricky, but it's good to solve each issue. For everyone one reporting a problem, there are probably many other people having the same issue.

Have you tried highlighting the terminal to see if it may be similar to #109 ?

[huyducnguyen1198]

ah yeah
i once accidentally highlighted it when i run cava. it actually showed some columns, it was just the columns no jumping at all. but it just the only time, i never able to highlight again until now.
anyway, u r sooooo good, and generous XD

[karlstav]

so it might be related to #109 or it might not, this is not getting any easier... have you tried other terminal emulators?

[huyducnguyen1198]

ah i have tried many terminal emulators, none works.
yeah it is kind of like #109.
i tried to highlight it, once it showed me the jumping bars only once.
i also tried distinct output methods as i told u.

[huyducnguyen1198]

haha it was my fault for not setting the "locale" things.

$ localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
i did that and cava works perfectly

[Zanark]

I have the same configuration but I'm using pulseaudio.
It is able to take input from the source but displays nothing on the terminal.

Arch Linux
wm: i3wm
terminal: xfce4-terminal

[shgsys]

Same error with pulseaudio.
Arch Linux, KDE plasma, konsole