[plug] MP3s on a NTFS not working out

[Weirdo]

Its a Win XP NTFS format. The NTFS modules are loaded and its an IDE disk. 
I will try the suggestions about cat | mpg123 from the next post.
Thanks
At 13:58 23/09/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>I have a windows 2000 NTFS partition (actually separate disk) on my system 
>now
>due to some subjects at Uni requiring windows :-( so I searched to see if I
>could find any mp3s on it. (find worked wonders)
>
>Under debian sid I did:
>
>modprobe aic7xxx # installing the module for the scsi controller that the
>windows disk resides on.
>
>mkdir /mnt/windows
>mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows/
>
>find /mnt/windows/ -iname "*.mp3" -print # my mp3s are all on my home
>fileserver (so I can share with all my boxen)
>
>mpg123 "/mnt/windows/Program Files/Winamp/demo.mp3"
>
>and it just worked ;-)
>
>I assume you tried:
>
>modprobe ntfs? (I didn't do that)
>
>Regards
>Quintin
>
>On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:50 am, Weirdo wrote:
> > Hi, I have approx 9Gb of MP3s on an NTFS partition. I can easily convert it
> > to FAT32 if I wanted to but I prefer NTFS[1] for use under Windows and for
> > protection against other idiots using my computer. Under Linux I can play
> > the Mp3s fine directly off the Disk using freeamp, XMMS and other lovely
> > GUI based apps. I WANT MY CONSOLE APPS! mpg321 and mpg123 both fail to play
> > the files off NTFS. If I move them to ext2/3 or FAT it works fine. The
> > error I get is device not found (i spent weeks trying to find out what
> > module wasn't loaded, by accident I found out it was the NTFS)
> > Can any one tell me why this happens and how I can redeem it without moving
> > files?
> > Thanks
> > Tim
> >
> > [1] The file security of NTFS (although not as good as ext2/3) means that I
> > can lock my MP3s away from other windows users at LANs, It also means their
> > is not risk of deletion of files from Linux when I am using Linux as a
> > Jukebox and someone accidently gets root as NTFS write support isn't
> > compiled into the kernel.
> >
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