Hi folks,

I just installed Amarok 2, and it seems to work okay but it olny plays local files. I can browse to my library of music, which is on another computer, but it won't play or load them into the collection.

Any thoughts?

I am running Linux Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid.

Cheers,

Sterling

Have not used Amarok 2 yet, but for earlier versions of Amarok, network directories have to be mounted  before they can be used .

Lee

My collection is on a NAS mounted over Samba and it plays fine in Amarok 2.

I mount the collection like this, as a script in my .kde/Autostart/ - using kdesudo so it provides a nice graphical prompt.

#!/bin/bash

# mount share
kdesudo -d --comment "Attach media share" -c "mount -t cifs //IPADDRESS/remote/path/to/music /path/to/mount/point -o username=XXXX,rw,password=XXXX"

where IPADDRESS is the ip of the remote host (or the name of the host)

Obviously saving username and password in  plain text is not the best but in this case I'm not concerned.

This mounts the remote collection as a local collection.

Once mounted, tell Amarok where your collection is and it should scan the mount point for music. Be prepared for it to be slow in scanning if you are using a 100 ethernet connection, like me, although music playback is fine.

HTH