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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:39:43 +0200 |
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Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 28 October 2006 08:30, Sarah wrote: |
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> > Dotan Cohen wrote: |
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> > > On 23/10/06, Arnau Bria <arnau@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > I can't help thinking the problem lies with my (lack of) |
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> > understanding of samba - our Squeezebox serves up the music from |
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> > the samba share beautifully - so I'm not sure what I'm getting |
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> > wrong in how I mount the share (mounting exactly the same way is |
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> > fine for Rhythmbox) for Amarok to read. Maybe I'll have another go |
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> > one day soon! If anyone has any hot tips or pointers that might |
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> > help, I'd be grateful - I think I'll tear all my hair out if I try |
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> > to emerge it again and end up with big problems with my system (I |
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> > so want to avoid a problem that I'll be doing a full system backup |
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> > before I have a go). |
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I have a setup similar to yours, down to the use of Squeezebox. The |
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only difference is that my collection is smaller and of mp3's rather |
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than oggs. Amarok seems to have no real problems with the share. |
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> It seems amarok is a little picky about this. |
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> http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Samba |
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FWIW, here's the relevant entry from my /etc/fstab (all one line in |
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the original): |
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//sanguinaria/music /mnt/sanguinaria smbfs |
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credentials=/etc/.samba_credentials,noauto,rw,user,umask=000 0 0 |
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> |
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> You should be aware that amarok opens all files to read the metadata |
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> (tags) when you add them to the collection. This is done just once, |
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> after that all the metadata is stored in amaroks database. |
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There's another possible solution, which is to set up an iTunes server |
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on your filserver machine. I have mt-daapd, the opensource iTunes |
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server, running on my fileserver, so that my wife can easily administer |
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her iPod using WinXP and iTunes. |
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Your music on the iTunes server is then also accessible in recent |
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versions of amarok in the "Media Devices" tab. |
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It appears that mt-daapd supports ogg (although iTunes qua iTunes |
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doesn't). |
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Additional information: |
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http://wiki.mt-daapd.org/wiki/Main_Page |
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http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Music_Sharing |
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Regards, |
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Chris Atkinson |
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email: thirtyyearswar@××××××××××.com |
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