Music Libraries

[Hunter Jozwiak]

The directions were fantastic! Thanks much, will try this when I get
home. I like Fedora, because it has many accessibility features for
blind folk like me. Does KDE have a feature like Orca in Gnome?

On 3/11/14, Mark Haney <mhaney at practichem.com> wrote:
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> On 03/11/14 10:32, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
>> How did you make the mount point? And where do I find other
>> partitions, and does this work with Rhythmbox?
>>
>
> Please don't top post.
>
> To make the mount point, it's just like making any other directory
> (mkdir /media/music in my case).  Finding the other partition isn't a
> big deal. To find the correct Windows partition (as root) use fdisk -l
> (that's a lowercase L) which will print out all partitions you have on
> that system.  This is what my netbook looks like:
>
> caesar markh # fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x0ac10daa
>
> Device    Boot     Start       End    Blocks  Id System
> /dev/sda1           2048  25167871  12582912  27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
> /dev/sda2 *     25167872  25372671    102400   7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda3       25372672 399290403 186958866   7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda4      399292416 488396799  44552192   5 Extended
> /dev/sda5      399296512 400320511    512000  83 Linux
> /dev/sda6      400322560 484290559  41984000  83 Linux
> /dev/sda7      484292608 488396799   2052096  82 Linux swap / Solaris
>
> Look for the NTFS partitions, in mine I have one hidden partition
> (recovery partition), a boot partition (the one with the * in the BOOT
> column) and then the primary Windows partition at /dev/sda3.  (Again,
> yours might be different.)
>
> So, as root I 'mount /dev/sda3 /media/music' and open up Amarok.  Now,
> when I first set this up, I had to point Amarok to the right file
> location since I mounted the Windows partition directly (which I use
> for things other than music), but I don't see any reason why you just
> couldn't symlink the Music directory in the Windows partition to the
> Music directory in your home folder.  (Then again, I don't know, it's
> not something I've ever done.)
>
> I did just confirm that RhythmBox works with my mounted partition, but
> YMMV.
>
> And, forgive the Fisher-Price version of the instructions. I'm not
> certain of your level of Linux experience, so I was as detailed as I
> could be.  No insult intended.
>
>
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