PasTim wrote: > It depends how you want to access your music files. For me, making all > music files belong to me, with full access for me and my group, and the > allowing squeezeboxserver access to my group, suits my purpose. > > So if my user group is 'tim', I add group 'tim' to squeezeboxserver in > the same way as audio above. All my music files are read/write for tim > and the tim group, and owned by tim (see chown and chmod commands), so > squeezeboxserver can read (and write) them as well. Some people do it > the other way round, with squezeboxserver being the owner. > > I access my music using other tools as well, such a puddletag (for > tagging the files) and foobar2000 (running under wine) for many fiddly > things that only it does well, so having them owned by me makes more > sense to me. > > There may be other directories used by LMS that squeezeboxserver needs > access to, particularly if you use some plugins likes custom browse. > However, I suggest you sort out the music and squeezelite first. > > If you get really stuck, and struggle with linux, Vortexbox could be any > answer if that's all you use the box for. The software is free to > download. I used it for quite a while before doing my own thing. Thanks very > much. I can see that I am going to have to get to grips with the permissions issue. At the moment I'm not sure I have a group. I was hoping to be abe to set the music files so that they can be accessed by anyone, without having to do this manually every time I put a new file in the music folder.
I was trying out a (relatively) friendly linux distro as a sort of introduction before gettig to grips with to setting up lms and squeezelite (and possibly XBMC) on a cubox-i, which I fear may have to be done under Arch. this in turn was a sort of practice run for trying to get a hummingboard working as part of a bult in streamer which is likely to be part of the m-dac 2 project. installing squeeze on arch on the cubox-i appears to require another linux computer running to create the image on the sd card (I confess that I don't really understand why that might be the case). I can well see that an off the shelf solutuion like vortexbox or daphile might well be more attractive when running on a regular intel computer, provided that one isn't bothered about running other stuff on it too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
