Amarok will not play from a Samba nettwork server

[pider]

I put all my mp3's and flac files on a media-server. I try to play this music with Amarok on my laptop. I can find the music on the samba server on the network, but Amarok will not play the files.

" Strøm (smb://per-mediaserver/LaCie/Musikk/Beatles/Mp3/01%20Please%20Please%20Me/13%20-%20There's%20A%20Place.mp3)"

Strøm=stream

Amarok tell me that this is "unknown"

[bweinel]

Have you checked the permissions of the files and directories on the samba server to make sure that you're laptop is allowed access? I have found that this is usually a good place to start troubleshooting. I start off by setting my samba file/directory permissions to 777 to take permissions out of the equation when troubleshooting a share, then once I have everything working I back the permissions down to where I want them.

If everything is ok with permissions, the other thought that you might try is mounting the samba share on your laptop directly with a mount command and then accessing the mounted share with Amarok. It seems that I remember having an issue in recent versions of Amarok with using shares directly referenced by an smb:// statement.

Hopefully one of these suggestions will help your issue.

cheers,
Bill

[sithlord48]

you can not stream over samba. you must mount the share first to your local file system.

[james147]

you can not stream over samba. you must mount the share first to your local file system.

This is not true, you can stream over samba I have done it many times and still do (mostly for movies though).

There was an issue with kde and streaming over samba in kubuntu, but I thought that was fixed.

I will test amarok out in a bit to see if I can replicate this.

[sithlord48]

This is not true, you can stream over samba I have done it many times and still do (mostly for movies though).

VLC supports playback of smb via a stream. dragon player (and amarok) seam like they want to but then you get a Qapt dialog asking to search for a smb protocall support plugin. if i try to open a file stored on a smb share (that is not mounted) with any other program it not stream it will instead make a local copy (/var/tmp/kdecache) and then open the local copy.

[SteveRiley]

I suspect you can get them to stream if you install Smb4k. I find that little utility to be the handiest of tools for making my Kubuntu machines talk to my ancient HP 470 Windows Home Server.