Okay, after looking at it and thinking about it, I think I am wrong ....

or let me put it in the form of a question: as I said before, I'm used to iTunes, and iTunes likes to have all the music in one drive or folder or area. 

I am not sure whether or not the case with Amarok.  Can anyone tell me?  From what I can see, you tell Amarok to look in a specific folder for the music, and it automatically finds whatever is there (which iT does NOT do!). 

However, does Amarok have to have all the music in one place (like iT)?  Or can it be on several drives or folders at the same time?

If Amarok needs to have everything on one drive, then I need to figure out how to do a RAID set up in Linux, because I have way more music than can possibly fit on any individual hard drive.

Thanks!

If amarok is not finding the music in your directories, it's possible the music format is causing problems. Is this music purchased from itunes store?
Make sure also, that you've selected "scan folders recursively" on the collection config page to pick up tracks that might be in subfolders. itunes tends to create complex directory structures.

There's absolutely no need for all your music to be in one place (and in fact, even in itunes you can have your music scattered all over the place - you just have to use the "add folders" option). The main thing some people have trouble with is when their music is on multiple removable hard drives which may not always be present.

okay - thanks!

what I will have to do is add a second drive, and then see if I can add the files from the second drive into Amarok.

I think it's amazingly cool that Amarok instantly finds the sound files you put into the folder.

However, will it be able to do that with two (or more) different folders on two different drives?  Can it actually look in both places?

anyhow, will add me a second drive and see what happens... thanks... (of course I guess I could try this right now with a removable USB drive...)

w

probably you should read up on mounting hard drives - things work a bit differently in linux

thanks - steer me to a PDF and I will read it!

I tried installing an external SATA drive throught a PCI SATA card - so far the system doesn't seem to see it at all - how can I get the system to mount it?  Is there a Linux equivalent of the mac disk utility?  I actually pre-formatted this drive (using Mac disk utility) in UNIX, don't know if ubuntu can actually read that or not, but it should at least see the drive and offer to format / initialize it..

w

I hate to say this... but google really IS your friend! Also, linux documentation on your install CD.

Also, if you formatted the drive as hfs which I believe is the mac default, linux probably won't read it. Generally, to share physical hard drives between different operating systems, you'll need to pander to the lowest common denominator - in this case probably vfat (the old MSDOS format used by windows).

thank you -

I formatted the drive in what Mac OS X identified as UNIX, but maybe, from what you are saying, I should have formatted it in what Mac OS X calls MS DOS.  Oh well, I guess I can try it.

Good luck, by the way, from here to Maternity!

w