A really great linux based music program

I was on a roll figuring out how to get things done in linux and i wanted to stream some music from my desktop. I checked out the built in music players included with KDE but they just didn't have the functionality i was used to from winamp. But then i found this program called amaroK

1) install program

apt-get install amarok


2) restart KDE

3) Open amaroK and start importing music files.

This brings up an intresting point for me, all my music files are still stored on my windows box. How can i play them in linux even when the program doesnt support playing from smb connections? This is when you need to mount the share. You can think of it as mapping a network drive.


apt-get install smbfs
mkdir /mount
cd mount
mkdir music
mount -t smbfs //computername/sharename /mount/music


Thats it, i was streaming my music from my windows box to my linux desktop in notime. Note: this mount will disapear the next time you reboot unless you make it mount as part of the startup.


nano /etc/fstab

it should be fairly easy to see how this file is formatted. Add the entry and then reboot to test it out. If it automounts the next time around then you are good to go.