Getting applications to browse to files on network.

Zorin sees my files stored on a network location just fine. But none of the mp3 players I've tried offer the ability to browse to the network location and add those files to my library. Tried RhythmBox, DeadBeef, Clementine and Foobnix. I am longtime user of Foobar under Windows where such things were no issue at all, and need to be able to use this new Ubuntu box as a music client to my main Win 7 PC where my 55K+ files live. I have my networked MP3 folder mounted on my Zorin desktop. But am confused why the OS sees the files and can play them remotely one by one, but the local linux apps can't load them into a library so I can make playlists, etc. Thanks for any advice.

Hi,

are all your drives set to automount, it may be that the locations are not mounted when you boot and that is why they cannot be read?.

Take a look here, it might help:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autom ... Partitions

Hope it helps.

Regards Wolfman

Thanks, but if I can open files on my networked folders via Zorin file browser, doesn't this mean they are mounted already? I can go to any individual mp3 and play it even if it is located on my windows machine on the network. But the file browsers embedded within the linux mp3 players I've tried don't offer the network drive as a location. If I bookmark a folder on that network drive in the Zorin file browser, Within Libre Office I can browse to it and open it, just not my music players.

Just a guess here - try movin your music into your Windows 'Public' folders and make them shared.

Have to see if that can work. My files are all on a separate drive from C so I don't know if I can get a Public folder on the D drive.

Looks like Clementine is the way to go!:

http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-clemen ... ry-os-0-2/

Alas, no -- or at least not yet. The file browser on Clementine does not offer bookmarked folders as ones you can add to a music library (what C calls a collection.). This is what I don't understand. If the Zorin file browser offers Network as a location to browse to, why can't apps on the system do the same thing? I can do this within Windows with Foobar -- but even running Foobar under Wine in Zorin doesn't show the Network location as one to add files to library from. I have queries in at Clementine forum for help with this, but I assume there's something fundamentally different between Ubuntu and Windows about how they OS deals with networked files. I'm beginning to wonder if I can get my Zorin box to do what I want. Plus I have yet to get sound out of my Audigy 2 Value SB card.

OK, I will try and delve a little more - in the meantime this MIGHT help re sound:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... st10787923

One other thought about music files - xbmc?:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Music_Library

Also, check this out:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-mo ... linux.html

Hi,

what setup do you have as far as file sharing goes?. Have you read through the Samba pages?:

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/servergui ... erver.html

Hope it helps.

Regards Wolfman

The link below is for how to get your Linux box Public folder viewed by your windows box. No problem with that. My problem is that I don't know how to tell my mp3 player to find the mp3 folders on my PC to add those files to the linux music library (not copy them into my linux box but play them on my linux box from their networked location.) See the attached image. File browser on Clementine offers column of Places to find files but no network location as I am used to finding on my Windows Explorer file menu.

what setup do you have as far as file sharing goes?. Have you read through the Samba pages?:

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/servergui ... erver.html

Hope it helps.

Regards Wolfman [/quote]

Hi, to be honest, I don't share my files because I'm a sea creature - very shellfish!

Hi,

according to the pic you posted, there are no other locations at all on your PC, not even a Windows partition, what other partitions do you have on your PC or do you only have Linux?.

Regards Wolfman

Now Zorin says I have no sound card at all and only dummy output. Must have happened with one of the recent updates or installations of various music apps. I found an Ubuntu forum post

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1316634

about purging and refreshing ALSA settings but nothing changed. No sound card recognized. The same post said to look at Cat/Proc/Asound/Cards to see what the system sees, but I don't know where or how to find that file.

Hi,

run this terminal command and then restart your PC:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f

See also:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2247

See also the thread about sound and try Alsamixer if Paman won't work for you:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2023

Let us know if it helps.

You didn't answer my question about your partitions!.

Regards Wolfman