Media player that can access a Vista partition?
I have a laptop dual-booting Ubuntu linux and Vista. I have a lot of music, and since i've been using Ubuntu more than vista lately, i'd like to have a good music player.
I don't really like how rythmnbox is laid out, but it actually imports my music. I tried to use Amarok 1.4, but it won't import from my vista partition. I have nearly 18gb of music, and the partition for Ubuntu is only 3gb. Anyone know of any other players that can import from vista's FAT32 partition? |
sudo nautilus then passward copy from windows drive to your linux drive. it is all up to permission there is no reason why your multimedia player running in a linux environment can not see read or play from your windows partition. it is up to you to set the permission of the user to allow them to enter that partition. vista that I know uses ntfs partition and if your using gnome edit your setting so your nautilus file manager opens as a browser. then you will see on the left all your hard drive partitions you can mount.
check /media/ also remember if it is not mounted you can't import if you do not have permission to access the disk drive then you can't import let your user have -> disk <- permission. good luck |
I don't really understand what you mean by importing your music. Amarok can play music from a vista partition just fine, provided it's mounted. Just click on Engage -> Play Media and choose your music files in the directory where the vista partition is mounted.
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why don't you permanently mount your vista fat32 drive in Ubuntu with all the read write permissions?
here's how: open a terminal and type: Code:
sudo mkdir /vista Code:
sudo gedit /etc/fstab Code:
/dev/sdxy /vista vfat defaults,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=100,auto,rw,user 0 2 and y = the partition number (e.g: sda1, sdb1, sdc3..) to find out what drive your vista partition is (in case you are not certain) open gparted to see the drives and their respective partition notations. reboot your system and you should be able to 'see' this drive in every application in the newly created /vista folder on your system good luck ron. |
well if they do not thank you I will good stuff wabbalee
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@wabbalee:
Doesn't vista use NTFS ? (I don't have a copy to test). In which case the line in /etc/fstab needs to look like this: Code:
/dev/sdxy /vista ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=100,auto,rw,user 0 2 Code:
sudo mount -a "Rescan collection" and you should be good to go. [Edit:] Copying the Music from vista to linux is a waste of disk space, as once vista is mounted, linux can just read the files from there [/Edit] |
Thank you Drakeo and glad I could assist.
to tredegar: you are correct, vista would most likely use ntfs by default as its 'security' features rely on it, these are not present in FAT32, however, the OP states: Quote:
and rebooting is what works for me as I don't know all the command line tricks, it also helps confirming and testing that what I did actually works the way I meant it. I am no expert, I am just starting to think that I am at advanced user level. cheers, Ron |
@ wabbalee:
Thanks for that. I apparently made a mistake though, as vista's partition IS ntfs. I had been using my slackware laptop, and it uses EXT2. I couldn't remember which file system vista was, and knowing slack was ext2, i figured vista was FAT32. sorry about that! i've been busy and haven't been able to do this yet, but i'll tell you how it goes. thanks everyone. |
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use ntfs-3g instead of vfat in the fstab line as tredegar suggests if your vista drive is ntfs (it most likely is).
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it worked!
the /vista folder for some reason only shows basic system files, but i found everything in /media/HDD1 . amarok has registered every file, and t works well. The only thing i miss is that amarok doesn't sort by album artist like Zune did, and instead sorts by song artist. but it's alright, i'm just glad to be able to get it all. thanks everyone. |
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Click it -> Lots of ways to sort your music |
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could you give us an output of this command please? Code:
sudo parted /dev/sda print Code:
Model: ATA ST9160821A (scsi) |
i will once i get access to my laptop tomorrow night. i'm not at home, where it is.
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alright, here's what I output:
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Model: ATA WDC WD2500BEVS-2 (scsi) |
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I can see, judging by the sheer size of sda2 that it is your 'storage' partition and sda1 is your WinVista drive. it makes sense that this particular partition shows up in the folder '/vista' because you have done what I suggested. if you would like the 'storage' partition to be accessible the same way as your '/vista' partition you can repeat this procedure using a slightly different string: open a terminal and type: Code:
sudo mkdir /storage Code:
sudo gedit /etc/fstab Code:
/dev/sda2 /storage ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=100,auto,rw,user 0 2 Quote:
good luck ron. |
I never mentioned it, but I did rename the hard drive in Vista before installing Ubuntu. I don't remember what it was originally, but i renamed it to HDD1 to make it easier to locate. Maybe that has something to do with it, although I would think (with my little knowledge) that Ubuntu would detect it as sda2.
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No, that explains it all; the media protocol in Ubuntu supports drive labels. you called your storage partition HDD1. I remember a few years ago in Linux a drive with notation HDD1 would be the first partition of the secondary slave drive, now that would be SDD1. the name you gave to it can be a bit confusing.
does Ubuntu prompt you for your password when you initially access that drive? if so, then doing my suggestion will eliminate that. |
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