do not die if the music_dir does not exist, just report an error

client/djrandom_client/client.py

@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ def run_client(server_url, music_dir, api_key, run_once, bwlimit, enable_watcher
     if bwlimit:
         throttle.set_rate_limit(bwlimit)
 
+    # Warn on this condition, but don't die -- the directory might exist later!
+    if not os.path.isdir(music_dir):
+        log.error('The music_dir you specified does not exist')
+
     if enable_watcher and not watcher_support:
         log.warn('inotify/fsevents support not enabled on this platform')
         enable_watcher = False
@@ -128,8 +132,8 @@ def main():
     opts, args = parser.parse_args()
     if not opts.api_key:
         parser.error('You must specify an API Key')
-    if not os.path.isdir(opts.music_dir):
-        parser.error('The --music_dir you specified does not exist')
+
+    music_dir = os.path.expanduser(opts.music_dir)
     if args:
         parser.error('Too many arguments')
 
@@ -142,7 +146,7 @@ def main():
     do_realtime = not opts.no_realtime_watch
 
     daemonize.daemonize(opts, run_client, 
-                        (opts.server_url, opts.music_dir, opts.api_key,
+                        (opts.server_url, music_dir, opts.api_key,
                          opts.once, opts.bwlimit, do_realtime))