redmts;295290 Wrote: > So my humble plea is this: HELP !! > 1 - What MP3 package is matched to Squeezecenter so it can see the MP3s > and play them? > 2 - do I have a permissions problem with the server not seeing my > directories? (if so, why the hell doesn't it tell me so?) > 3 - Am I doing something totally dumb? >
1. As mentioned mp3 decoding is done (in the default configuration) in the SB3. Hence SC need not be able to decode so no packages are needed. If you want to play the mp3's on the linux-box, some fiddling might be needed due to the dubious proprietary nature of mp3. - Open the synaptic package manager and enable the universe, multiverse and restricted repositories. - Search for gstreamer and install the package called gstreamer-ffmpeg something. - Play the mp3's in totem (the media player in Gnome) 2. If your server can't see your directories, how do you expect it to tell you that it can't see them. Should it just randomly guess "ohh, I'm not seeing directory X now, I better report". If on the other hand it can see the directories but not access them, it does report, see /var/log/squeezecenter/server.log Linux file permissions are easy to understand, they are less complicated than, at least, winxp. The first hit on google on "linux file permissions" seems to explain ok http://www.freeos.com/articles/3127/ The upshot is that your music directories needs access rights as, or less strict, than being owned by the 'squeezecenter' user and granted read-permissions for that user. 3. No, just be patient and wiling to learn. Whenever I get close to a ms-box I start swearing because I can't do *anything*, but I'm sure its mostly due to me not knowing what the start menu is (slightly exaggerated:). Good luck, and please ask if you have further quesitons. B. -- bhaagensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46783 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
