Okay, well a quick, dirty, and insecure way of getting things to work is
to give everyone read and write access to the folder. To do this, become
the root user, which is usually done via the 'su' command. Then, as
root, give the following command:

chmod 777 /full/path/to/playlist/folder

where you substitute your actual playlist folder path in place of
/full/path/to/playlist/folder. If you have any spaces in the pathname
then you need to enclose the pathname in inverted commmas/quotation
marks. Then remember to 'exit' from being root user.

A more secure way would be to change the user and/or group to something
more appropriate, and give full permissions only to that user or group,
rather than the whole world. Do you ever do editing of playlist files
when logged in under your own username? If not, then you can make the
playlist folder owned by username 'squeezeboxserver', and just give
write permissions to that user (I'll assume you don't mind other users
reading your playlists). In that case you would do the following, again
after using 'su' to get root status.

chown -R squeezeboxserver /full/path/to/playlist/folder
chmod 755 /full/path/to/playlist/folder
chmod 644 /full/path/to/playlist/folder/*

If you ever do want to be able to edit/write/delete playlist files
under your own username, you can either use the first approach (quick,
dirty, insecure), or post back and I can outline something a little
less blunt.


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