[mythtv-users] MythMusic DecoderMad

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Sun Feb 4 19:05:53 UTC 2007


Keith Millar wrote:
> 
> brian wrote:
> 
>>>>    Does the Suse FE have read(/write) access to the directory containing 
>>>> your music files?
>>> yes
>>    Okay.  The error message seems to indicate otherwise.
>>
>>    Next question:  is the path to the music files, from the Suse FE's 
>> vantage point, the same as it is on the Gentoo FE/BE ?   That is to say, 
>> if the music is stored in '/var/music' on the FE/BE, is that directory 
>> mounted as such (/var/music) on the Suse FE machine?  This path (path to 
>> music files) is stored in the database, along with the actual filename 
>> of the mp3 file in question.   When the FE tries to play an mp3 file, 
>> the 'music directory' (/var/music/) and the filename (playthis.mp3) are 
>> concatenated (/var/music/playthis.mp3), and then the file is opened.
> 
> The paths to the music files are the same on both machines

How are you sharing the files?
On the FE where it does not work, can you copy the file that will not play?

The reason I ask is that there is a bug in some versions of Samba that 
resulted in being able to list the shared directory but not be able to 
read the files.


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