I have all my media stored on an openSUSE 10.3 server running samba and mediatomb.
I used to listen to my music by using windows media player over a samba share on the server. Is there a decent mediaplayer that can do this on linux?
Or is there a way to set up banshee over some other file sharing protocol?
if you mount the remote Samba share, any mediaplayer should do. The mounted share appears like a local part of the file system in this case.
Uwe
I have tried with both banshee and songbird.
When I try to import media, I select the mounted folder, but it finds nothing.
Can you go to nautilus or konqueror and play the file by clicking it?
Uwe
Yes, I can play the file through nautilus.
Is there a difference in manually mounting the share?
I connect to the share through nautilus, and not samba implicitly.
Which should work.
afaik that’s not a mount, then. Mount the Samba share and try again.
Uwe
I just wanted to point out that firefly media server (mt-daapd) is pretty braindead to install if you want to try that. Any player that supports daap will be able to see it. (Rhythmbox and Banshee that I know of) (I had to do some config on the openSUSE firewall however)
On Windows boxes I’ve had issues trying to just read the media files right off of a network share, but don’t recall what those issues were, nor did I have much in the way of speculation regarding the cause of the issues.
I’ve got firefly installed on a Linux-based off the shelf NAS device and it works like a charm. IIRC the version I’ve got on there won’t stream anything but .mp3 (I know for sure it won’t stream .flac), but it’s an older version…
This is an overcomplication if you really don’t need it, I’ll admit…
Success!
Manually mounting does the trick, thank you very much.
I can now play all my music with banshee 