5.1 Configuring doodah

Before you can use doodah you need to tell it where the MySQL server is and what player to use. You can do this by starting doodah and pressing Ctrl+P.

MySQL options:

Host

This should be the address of the MySQL server. If you leave it blank it will connect through a local socket which should be faster then setting it to localhost.

Port

This is the port number to connect through. If you leave it on zero it will use the default MySQL port.

Socket

This is the socket to connect through. If you leave it blank it should connect through the default socket (usually `/tmp/mysql.sock'). Doodah only uses this if you leave the Host field blank.

Username

This should be the username to connect to MySQL with. Set it to whatever user you created for the database. 3.1 Configuring MySQL.

Password

This should be the password to connect to MySQL with. Set it to whatever password you created for the database. 3.1 Configuring MySQL.

If you change any of the MySQL options you will want to reconnect to the MySQL server. Do this by pressing Ctrl+C or selecting the Doodah->Connect menu option. If it worked the status bar should say `Connected'. Otherwise it will show an error message saying why it couldn't connect.

Player options:

Player

This lets you select from the available players. If you compiled doodah with XMMS support, XMMS will be one of the options. Otherwise you will only be able to use a command line player.

XMMS Session

This selects which XMMS session number to use.

Command

This sets which command to use. The command should be one command, such as `mpg123'. It will be run in the background and given one argument, which will be the filename of the MP3. At the moment you can't set any other arguments to the command so until then you'll have to make a shell script if you want to do anything more complicated. The command is searched for in the path.

Search Fields:

Here you can select the fields that will be shown in the selector tab. You can perform a more complicated search with more fields but the interface will look nicer with less.

When you exit doodah it should write a configuration file called .doodah in your $HOME directory.