Re: [F8] Installing MP3 for Amarok? How?

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Subject: [F8] Installing MP3 for Amarok?  How?
From: Dan Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/10/2008 12:19 PM

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yum install mplayer, mplayer-gui, mplayer-fonts but I seem to recall
that you had some Fedora 6 version of something or other stuck which
would probably block the installation.

I already installed the above stuff and it took. It just does not recognize the WMA files. I'll figure this out eventually.

Now, a new "problem":

I store most of my music files on a windoes server and would like to know what I need to do to get Amarok on Fedora to recogize the NTFS filesystem URL. Amarok seems to complain that it does not know how to use the smb://<music files> or so it seems. Maybe I need to install the NTFS support files for this one, but I will defer this since it seems I don't really need to do this since it *seems* to be already supported...

What I did was to open 'Computer->Network->SystemName->M$->Music', the

drag and drop a Music Directory into Playlist and the playlist was populated with all of the supported music files. It is interesting that the 'Directory' column shows the 'smb://SystemName/...' for all of the files that were dropped there. But when I double-click the specific file to play, an error pops up saying:

No suitable input plugin. This often means that the url's protocol is not supported. Network failures are other possible causes.

smb://<SystemName>/M$/Music/classical/Mozart-Requeim.mp3

What do I need to do to get this to work?

Thanks!

Two links that might help:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-8.html
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configure-a-system-to-automount-a-samba-share-with-etcfstab/

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