Play mp3 from windows shares in ubuntu

marioflory

Hey you!

Maybe yYOU can help me. I have a strange situation. I installed ubuntu and use mostly amarok and vlc to play multimedia files. Both work great. But when I open a windows share in Nautilus to browse my mp3 on the remote windows machine, I cannot play them in amarok or vlc. However, they play nice in totem video player. Anyone knows why? And if so, do you have any idea how I can change this? I'd love to play each and every mp3-song in my network over amarok, because it is cooooooooooooooooooool!!

Thanks a lot for your help

marioflory

Hello my potential helpers....
Ummm....

noone can help me? I cannot believe that you didn't have a similar problem.. can you actually tell me if maybe you CAN DO what I'm trying to do? I mean if it is even possible... that would help me at least a little bit.

Thank you very much in advance.

Ikthar

What are the errors output? And do you have write access on your Windows partiton? Maybe Amarok needs write access to play a MP3.