Amarok - can I play MP3 from an XP FAT drive?
 

I'm just trying to organise my MP3 files and have several GB on an existing XP FAT32 partition. It would make sense to leave them where they are and add them to 'my collection' in Amarok. However I can't find how to make this happen. Any ideas?

Hi,

You need to mount the FAT partition first.

mount -t fat /dev/hdXX /mnt/mountpointhere

This may help.

http://edge-op.org/grouch/mountfat.html

Correction:

With

Mounting explicitly with vfat will avoid the 8.3 name concatenation
that can be found when mount interprets the file allocation table as fat16 rather than fat32

Ooops, missed my v. Thanks for the correction.

Thanks for the help. I read the link and ran fdisk which showed hda4. So I entered the following:

[root@localhost ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /mnt/home/dms05
mount: mount point /mnt/home/dms05 does not exist

However /home/dms05 does exist. What am I doing wrong?

Ok, solved it! /mnt/acerdata worked!

Many many thanks.