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General => Users => Topic started by: agreene on March 27, 2007, 04:26:18 pm

Title: Second Hard Drive
Post by: agreene on March 27, 2007, 04:26:18 pm

I have a large collection of ogg and flac files on a second hard drive. I cannot figure out how to configure LinuxMCE to find these files and play them. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Title: Re: Second Hard Drive
Post by: webpaul1 on March 27, 2007, 10:38:49 pm

You should have seen a message that says "I detected a new device: Generic Internal Drive (shows drive id)  Shall I use it".  That will add a device 'generic internal drive' under the core.  That should have happened automatically.  If not you can manually add 'generic internal drive' in the admin site.

Title: Re: Second Hard Drive
Post by: chronniff on March 28, 2007, 01:32:37 am

since I added it under the core I haven't been able to edit anything on that drive (its an external usb) and changing the permissions doesn't seem to do anything.....any ideas?

Title: Re: Second Hard Drive
Post by: asgard on March 28, 2007, 11:48:13 pm

Quote from: chronniff on March 28, 2007, 01:32:37 am

since I added it under the core I haven't been able to edit anything on that drive (its an external usb) and changing the permissions doesn't seem to do anything.....any ideas?

Can you cd to /mnt/device/DEVICE_ID from a console ?

Title: Re: Second Hard Drive (Ogg and Flac)
Post by: agreene on March 31, 2007, 02:55:43 am

I reinstalled LinuxMCE and and it recognized my hard drive. It found all (not very many) my mp3 files, but none of my ogg or flac files (which is what 90% of my files are). What did I do wrong this time?

Title: Re: Second Hard Drive
Post by: webpaul1 on April 03, 2007, 06:37:45 am

They should all be there.  You know mysql?  If so, in the pluto_main database, MediaType table is the known extensions.  And in pluto_media, File table are all the files it scanned and what types it thinks they are.