xmms not playing audio files unless logged in as root....

hollywoodb

I copied some audio files over from an NTFS partition, and using XMMS as root they played fine. however as anything other than root, XMMS loads the files into its playlist then goes through them really fast without playing them, like it can't find the files or something, even though they're in the playlist.

nicfit · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:18 am Post subject:

Try checking the permissions of /dev/sound/dsp and /dev/sound/mixer.

ls -l /dev/sound/dsp /dev/sound/mixer
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hollywoodb · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 6:47 am Post subject:

my permissions are fine, I can't find anything different between being logged in as root or a user, other than XMMS won't play as a user.....

hollywoodb · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:01 am Post subject:

fixed it, my bad, set permissions on the directory containing the audio files, but the permissions didn't carry over to the files themselves.

nathanj · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:04 pm Post subject:

After noticing that auto mounting my FAT32 drive (storage) would not allow me to access my audio files on that drive as it was owned by root. I added the 'user' option to that drive in /etc/fstab, which allowed any user to mount the drive, hence also access it. This has been working flawlessly.

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hollywoodb · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 12:07 am Post subject:

thanks for the tip nathanj....

OK, well I can play files fine w/ XMMS now, but there's still a problem....

When I start up XMMS and it still has my previously loaded tracks in the playlist, I can't play them. It speeds through really fast like it can't find the files. If I remove all the tracks from the playlist window and re-add them, it works fine.

Not the most major problem, but definitely annoying.

nathanj · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 1:42 pm Post subject:

Mmm.... That is wierd, that happens to me when I don't mount the partition. No idea sorry unless you are mounting a partition, do that before trying to run the files.

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