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is your MP3 in a Windows shared folder? if yes, mount the shares using Smb4K.. and make sure that Amarok is using the Xine Engine.
I have the Mp3's on an external HD. I store all my music there and want to open files from both windows and linux. I have to mount the files? If so, what is Smb4k and where can i find it?
if Smb4K is not installed, you may find it in synaptic.. it will automatically mount networked windows shares in 1 click.. it's a browser for shared folders..
Just to clarify a bit, with smb4k you can access network shares on a Windows host on your network.
If you just have an external harddisk that has your (music) files all you have to do is mount it to access the media.
How to mount it depends on a few things like what the filesystem on the disk is (fat32 or ntfs) for example (I assume it's a MS filesystem as you're using the disk on windows also)
Also important information is whether it's always connected or not and which users you want to have access to the disk etc.
Note: when reading the howtos keep in mind that because you have an external disk, it will be sdXX something instead of hdXX
EDIT: if the filesystem is ntfs, I strongly recommend mounting it read-only with the 'ro' option...if you follow aysiu's howto, instead of
/dev/hda1 /windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows ntfs ro,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
umask=0222 is enough for most cases, but ro is safer as you can't accidentally write to it with sudo
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