how do i play music from my windows partition on mandrake 9.0?

[sk8bloke87]

i have mandrake 9.0 set up with a dual boot on xp pro. how do i play mp3s located in my downloads partition in windows in mandrake 9.0? help is very much appreciated.

[JohnT]

First XP will have to be set-up as vfat, so you can read and write to it. Then mount the partition. Then the files you want to access must have permissions set for the user.

[sk8bloke87]

and how do i do all that?

mounting and bla bla...

all my windows partitions are fat32,

linux is ext3.

[carlywarly]

Do you have a /mnt/windows directory? If so, that's where your windows stuff is. It will already be mounted, so just open XMMS and navigate to that directory, load a few files and that should be it. If you don't have that directory, you will need to open the Mandrake Control Centre, Mount Points, Hard Drives. Have alook at the partitions on your drive. Find your windows partition and give it a name, /mnt/windows maybe. Then mount it. Then close the Control Centre (choose to save fstab changes). It should now be possible to play the MP3s.

[sk8bloke87]

hey! thx for the help! i got it now!

[Vaseline]

So, you need write access to play mp3's?

I've managed to get my ntfs drive mounted, but that's read-only of course. When I try to play my music in xmms, it just cycles through the playlist really quickly like it can't find the files.

I need my music. :/

[Homer119]

try clikc on each song individual and if that works tell us i could prob dig up an mp3 player that will work for ya;)

[Vaseline]

yeah.. it's deffo fcked. ;)

Suggest me a new one. :D Lightweight is my bag. heh..