MPD cannot see my music and playlist folders

[ghost]

might be best explained with some terminal output (see below)

Any ideas on how to fix? I'm on Fedora 40.

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$ sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/storage/my-stuff/music/lossless

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/storage/my-stuff/music/playlists

$ sudo systemctl stop mpd

$ sudo systemctl start mpd

$ sudo systemctl status mpd
● mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: active (running) since Thu 2024-07-31 11:22:45 ACST; 5s ago
Docs: man:mpd(1)
man:mpd.conf(5)
Main PID: 30302 (mpd)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 77060)
Memory: 11.5M (peak: 12.4M)
CPU: 266ms
CGroup: /system.slice/mpd.service
└─30302 /usr/bin/mpd --systemd

Jul 31 11:22:45 my-desktop1 systemd[1]: Starting mpd.service - Music Player Daemon...
Jul 31 11:22:45 my-desktop1 mpd[30302]: Jul 31 11:44 : exception: Failed to access /mnt/storage/my-stuff/music/playlists: Permission denied
Jul 31 11:22:45 my-desktop1 mpd[30302]: Jul 31 11:44 : exception: Failed to access /mnt/storage/my-stuff/music/lossless: Permission denied
Jul 31 11:22:45 my-desktop1 mpd[30302]: Failed to initialize io_uring: io_uring_queue_init() failed: Permission denied
Jul 31 11:22:45 my-desktop1 systemd[1]: Started mpd.service - Music Player Daemon.

$ sudo grep -i "user" /etc/mpd.conf
user "mpd"

[MaxKellermann]

This isn't the place to learn about basic Linux permissions because this has nothing to do with MPD - but you should know that you need "execute" permissions on all parent directories. And you should one day learn that mode "777" is an extremely bad idea.

[ghost]

1. I only only used "777" just to make sure MPD has read/write access (in case it needs write access).
2. I need to confirm later but I believe the default folder permissions (beginning at /mnt) is 755. and files was set to 644

[ghost]

I just checked and I can confirm that this path (all the way from /mnt to music folder) has a folder permission of 755 already.