2022.3 update issue -- hang at "starting media_player.mpd"

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Update went more or less as it usually does, but I’m experiencing SIGNIFICANT lag on restart.

In summary, HA throws no notifications or interesting errors, but upon boot hangs on “Starting media_player.mpd, not everything will be available until it is finished” for upwards of 8-10 minutes. Everything seems fine once it works through that.

Before I start wildly copying and pasting log files, has anyone experienced this or have any quick solutions to try before I dive deeper?

-J

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Update – the mpd platform integration isn’t connecting properly. Prior to 2022.3 I was having HA connect to my moode audio player via the mpd platform (in configuration.yaml)

media_player:
  - platform: mpd
    host: <ip>

This is currently failing apparently. Did I miss some breaking news?

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Thought I’d finish the thread up.

The problem was resolved by upgrading moode audio to 8.0. I believe it also incremented the version of MPD, and apparently that solved the problem.

Significant bonus: My album art is coming across now as well!

-J