i've got all my music stored on one of my NTFS drives- basically i bought a drive for nothing but media before i setup a dual boot,and since i have a share partition i don't feel the need to change this. i've got quite a lot of music (most of which i bought, before you give me that look) and it's all sorted according to artist in separate folders. so if i was looking for Fade to Black i'd go to E:\music\metallica\ride the lightning\fade to black.mp3 you get the idea. it works great with winamp 5/windows xp, but for some reason when i load /mnt/winc_3/music as a directory in XMMS i get the playlist to come up and then the program crashes. i get no music! this is something that is significantly turning me off of linux. i'd go for anohter player but due to the large amount of songs i have, winamp has become my best player. i'm satisfied with a winamp clone, but if it's not working it's not a very good clone, is it? here's my question:

how do i fix this in XMMS or where do i find a better winamp clone?

I admit I don't have a solution. However, I had a problem with xmms being really slow to START playign the music when reading from NTFS. Dunno why though. Sometimes I'll press play and wait about 90 seconds.. then it will start playing and working.

It just crashes? That's odd.

yeah i've got it to where it opens up with the playlist loaded, but if i double click a song and/or press play, the thing dies almost immediately.

the same problem now happens in Totem... i need a better media player. any suggestions?

If it's happening with both Xmms and Totem the problem is probably somewhere else. My guess would be the permissions for the sound devices in /dev. Try launching xmms or totem with a command in a terminal and see if they give you an error message which tells you what the problem is.

Edit - as for a better media player, I like Xmms for music as it's stable and fast. Totem has a nice visualiser and can play CD's and DVD's but it can be a bit buggy. mpg123 is a command line mp3 player.

for some reason i can run it in the terminal. then if i try to run it from the kicker or desktop shortcut it'll load and then won't respond. typing xmms from CLI does nothing in that case. i logout the current session, re-login and xmms is there, it will work this time. it seems kinda silly to have to restart every time i want to play a song, hopefully this allows you to understand the problem better and tell me what i broke

i had a similar problem when i used mandrake. i'm running slackware right now, so the steps below will probably be a bit different in your case.
try this: (assuming you're in kde) right click on the "start" button, then go to "menu editor." then navigate to the xmms entry that you use to open xmms. if there is "soundwrapper" or something like that in front of xmms in the "command" field, remove it. if not, then i don't know what's wrong sorry.

I am having the same problem in Slackware 10, any other distro worked fine. Seems to be only with XMMS in Slack, other media players work great, no delays at all. Anyone have a fix for this. I kinda like XMMS, and it's bugging me

I have just found the problem.

It is artsd

KDE will start it and will start a conflict with XMMS.
What I did was to start a xterm and runned XMMS from there. and it worked fine
but if you want it to work with KDE you will have to instal DBmixer
If you go to XMMS website they have a ref to it there


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