Starting mpc via systemd service

[chicki]

Hello world,

sorry for starting a new topic, but this seems rather unrelated to my other (solved) problem.
ight now I am stuck getting MPC to auto load a playlist and play it upon start up.
I have tried loading a shell script in a service
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
mpc load Radio.m3u && mpc play')

as well as running the command from within the service file:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[Unit]
Description=Load Playlist and play it
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpc load Radio.m3u
User=root

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
')

Can someone please help me with the .service file?

[WarheadsSE]

probably want that to be After=mpd.service

[chicki]

Thanks for the help!
I am still getting the following error:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'systemctl status start-mpc
start-mpc.service - Load Playlist and play it
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/start-mpc.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 1970-01-01 01:00:07 CET; 43 years 6 months ago
Process: 120 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpc load Radio.m3u (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
')

[WarheadsSE]

That's not the error... thats the status of error... what is the result of the actual error? (journalctl)

[chicki]

hmm it doesn't seem to be running

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# journalctl
No journal files were found.
')

[WarheadsSE]

Trust me it is running.

Man journalctl

[chicki]

well I still can't get journalctl to show me any entries (read the man page, tried -b, -n, -f etc.), but atleast I found out that the service starts correctly if I start it manually after boot.
Hence I would assume that using After=mpd.service is still too early?!

Edit: also tried Type=idle - didn't work either

[chicki]

Ok, using a service was probably the wrong idea anyway (atleast for my purpose, unless you want to start the device always playing the same song)...
Using the state file of mpd is the smarter way, I just had to create the state file and chmod it...