ncmpcpp: Connection Refused

[cpkirkpat]

I'm having an issue establishing a connection between ncmpcpp inside wsl and mpd inside windows. Some info:

Windows:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise
Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631

WSL:
OS: Arch Linux on Windows 10 x86_64
Kernel: 5.15.133.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

I have mpd running in a command prompt:
c:\mpd>mpd C:\mpd\mpd.conf

The only error, which I think isn't causing the issue is:
decoder: Decoder plugin 'wildmidi' is unavailable: configuration file does not exist: /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg

I can confirm that mpd is listening and is able to accept connections with this test on WSL:

[conor@conor-pc ~]$ nc 10.69.69.69 6600

OK MPD 0.23.5

Yet when I run ncmpcpp It says
ncmpcpp: Connection refused
in the lower left.

Here is my ncmpcpp config file

mpd_host "10.69.69.69"

mpd_port "6600"

media_library_primary_tag = album_artist

For extra troubleshooting I have tried disabling my windows firewall completely, to no avail. I don't think this is a firewall issue though since I can netcat directly to the listening mpd instance in Windows and it accepts the connection.

[zX3no]

Sorry for the late reply, this might not still be relevant to you, but I thought I would leave a reply anyway.

First, I would try skipping ncmpcpp's config file and just run ncmpcpp -h 10.69.69.69

If that doesn't work, I would look into the mpd log files at C:/mpd/mpd.log, see if they say anything.

You can use tail /mnt/c/mpd/mpd.log from within Arch or just open the file normally.

It might also be worth installing and testing mpd from within Arch, just to double check that ncmpcpp is working correctly.

pacman -S mpd
mpd
ncmpcpp -h 127.0.0.1