playing mp3s from CDROM

[coax]

Using MDK 8.0.

I have about 40 CD's burnt full of mp3s.

I tried one of my latest ones recently, & opened the file browser in XMMS. Went to the /mnt dir & then to the CDROM. It only saw 1 file - "track01.cda".

I did a search on this forum & some of what I read seemed to indicate it was how you burned the CD.

I used CDRWin for a long time & always made a .iso & then burned it onto CD.

Lately I've been burning things with Easy CD Creator 4.0. Just dragging & dropping & burning.

I'm not positive that it is only the Easy4 CD's that cannot be read or see the actual .mp3 files.

Could using these different programs & I'm assuming different methods of burning be the reason it's only seeing one track on some of the CD's?

I am relieved it will read some of the CD's anyway.

Well I think I'm answering my own question.. The more newer ones I try - same thing. Track01.cda.. And the earlier ones burnt with CDRWin the .mp3 files are visible & playable.. Oh well, at least that's only the last 10 or 11 CD's.. All the rest were burnt with CDRWin by making an .iso first..

Well here another question then. On a windows machine on my network, I have 8 gig's of mp3s. Is there a way to share the network drive or something so I can listen to these .mp3s over the network from the Winblows machine?

I'm limited on space in Linux so I don't wanna clutter my drive up with .mp3z. Also I can't even listen to .mp3s from the /mnt/win_c2 drive, is there a way?

Last Q, is there an equivalent to "DFX" for XMMS?? :)

Thx.

[trueNewbie]

Your mp3's from your windows partition should be by default automatically read. They work for me. Set up samba if you want to share between linux and windows. Samba is kind of difficult to setup. So far i can read/write from windows computers and they can see my files they just can't write to them. Good luck.

[Malakin]

Why can't you read your mp3's from your /mnt/win_c2 drive? You can certainly make this work, it should work by default as the above poster mentioned.

To share out your mp3s from the windows machine, set up the share on the windows box. Then from linux type "smbmount //1.2.3.4/sharedmp3 /smb/mp3 username=yourusername,password=yourpassword"
where 1.2.3.4 is obviously the ip address of the windows box sharing out the mp3's. sharedmp3 would be the share name you give your mp3 directory and /smb/mp3 can be whatever you want but just make sure the directory exists. smbmount might not be installed by default I can't remember, everything you need is on the mandrake cd though.

There are lots of effects/enhancement plugins for xmms - http://www.xmms.org/plugins_effect.html

Maybe you have to have ezcd "finalize" the cd's or something like that and then Linux will read them properly?? I dunno I use Nero for burning in windows :)

[coax]

Thanks for the replies. :)

Worked it out on both accounts.

The reason I couldn't play my mp3s from the dir on the /mnt/win_c2 drive, was that I had the dir named ~mp3_temp. Got rid of the tilde, worked like a charm after that. Doh.. Had it that way so it would be the top dir on that drive in windows. No loss..

And the smb command worked great!! :) I had to change it a little bit, I used the computername instead of ip, & it prompted me for a password (even though I put that in the commandline). I entered my linux user password & it went back to the prompt without failing like it did the first few times I tried it. Well, I forgot to become root the first few times.. ;-)

Thanks a bunch!

[Malakin]

it probably worked the first time, it always says it fails when it works :) if it really fails it will give some other error.