Firstly I must state that I am a rank amateur, brand new to Raspberry Pi, Raspyfi, Linux etc.

I stumbled onto Raspyfi and realised it sounded perfect for me. So I ordered everything and I've recently had delivered my first Pi, a Schiit Modi USB DAC, I already had a USB hardisk with my FLAC files, and I followed the instructions to put Raspyfi RC2 on a Class 10 SD card. I have the Pi connected to my router by Ethernet cable.

Raspyfi seems to execute with no problems, I had to put in the default login and password. My problem comes when I run GMPC on my PC and on trying to connect it comes up with this message 'error 13: problems connecting to "localhost" on port 6600'. I don't know whether this is an issue with the Pi or my computer. I have enabled the port on my Firewall. I can connect to the Pi via Putty from my PC.

I have scoured the internet for a solution and spent hours trying to sort it now. I realised at the outset that it wouldn't be plug and play but I am now totally lost.

Can anyone help please?

Thank you so much for your reply! I thought that I was unable to enter my IP address into GMPC; I was wrong!

I do have one more problem, in that updating the MDP database within GMPC (and Ario) does nothing. My music is currently in a folder on the USB hard disk, when viewed in Windows, appears as e:\FLAC. I have another as e:\music . Should I put these into different named folders perhaps?

Thank you in advance.