Deepin link music directory ..

balise · 05-13-2019, 09:16 PM

I am migrating from Ubuntu to Deepin (mainly 'cause on my old i5 box it is faster; also has nice UI). I thought, as I did when migrating from Ubuntu whatever to the newest, that a 'Music' link to where I really have my music (different directory) would work, but the Deepin 'Music App' seems not to recognize my 'ln -s /xxx/yyy/zzz Music' as "Music". What to do? I have a *lot* of music on another partition than the "home" partition. Thanks in advance.

camorri · 05-15-2019, 06:18 AM

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I have a *lot* of music on another partition than the "home" partition.

Is this partition mounted? If not, mount it.

balise · 05-15-2019, 01:56 PM

Well I did mount the partition and ln -s /xxx/music Music, so that the
File Manager does open Music correctly, but the Music app still opens
/usr/share/music.

camorri · 05-15-2019, 03:47 PM

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Music app still opens /usr/share/music.

That should be changeable in the music app. What app are you using?

balise · 05-15-2019, 05:12 PM

It was the standard 'music' app for Deepin which I've unfortunately deleted (thinking that re-installing might pick up my link). I guess I may re-install first. Will follow up.

balise · 05-15-2019, 05:12 PM

I mean re-install deepin itself. Can't find the app 'music'.

linus72 · 05-15-2019, 05:19 PM

hey bro, so in my slackware install I have my music folder on /dev/sda7 mounted on /Storage with permissions set so my username has full access to the files.
I use Audacious which worked out of the box for me.

as user, in my desktop with terminal open

Code:

cd Desktop
ln -s /Storage Music

Then when I edited /ect/fstab as root, and added

Code:

/dev/sda7        /Storage         ext4        defaults        1   1

If your music is on same partition then dont do all that
But try audacious/open folder, lead it to your symlink