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HughH
Asked: 2010-09-10 13:36:25 +0800 CST

Music player that can access/catalog music on network drive

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I have all of my music on a network drive hooked up to an Ubuntu server. I can access the music from my Ubuntu laptop. The problem is that I can't find a program that will use my samba connection to access the music directly. Any suggestions?

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    I would suggest you use a streaming server application.

    There is ampache (amarok, andriod client, ..), which is a PHP + Mysql webstreaming application. http://ampache.org/wiki/clients:amarok

    and there is the Firefly Mediaserver http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/
    Firefly has also the support to stream to iTunes and lots of other applications including Rhythmbox.

    I would suggest the Firefly because it is a little bit easier to setup.

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  2. If your connection to the network mount is always there, you could write an /etc/fstab entry for it.

    MountWindowsSharesPermanently - Community Help Wiki

    Alternatively, there's NFS but both will struggle and splutter when you're away from the network.

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  3. I add a Bookmark to the Samba share and then add Music Collection via /home//.gvfs//

    Only issue is that you need to open the connection to the share first.

    Or as Oli put you could go down the route of adding to Fstab.

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