mount playlists via SMB/NFS?

Hey guys;
I've been searching round but havent found any info on anyone considering this, so forgive me if it is covered somewhere that I couldnt find.

Is there a way with hijack or some other software to share the playlists as a filesystem. I know that the playlists can re-use the same file, which is effectively the same as a hard link.

This would mean that my linux box could mount the playlist structure and I could easily file browse the structures.

Is there are reason this hasnt been done yet? It only needs to be read only, as I understand that handling copying new files in etc would be a bit trickyer (tho maybe not impossible). Is NFS/SMB too bulky for the empeg?

The problem that I am trying to combat is this: XMMS has lesser handling ofr HTTP mp3 streams - it cant skip thru the song via the duration slider, and I can't drag and drop the stream links on to the xmms playlist from firefox - in windows/winamp I can do both, making playlist building (in winamp) easy.

If the files were on my local file system XMMS would handle both these. Anyone got any suggestions on how they achieve these tasks in Linux?

The music stored on the empeg disks has been renamed so unless you knew that file 4af0 was the track you were looking for then it'd be pointless mounting it. Nothing to stop you from compiling NFS or CIFS apart from maybe memory constraints.

yes, im aware that mounting the files directly would be no use; I was hopnig for a translation layer that emulated the playlist file structure over smb/nfs

Ah okay. Just checking

You could do it with a Samba VFS module which would display a more friendly view of the empeg HD. Somebody wrote one which converts FLAC/etc to WAV for his Audiotron so that might be something to take a look at.

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yes, im aware that mounting the files directly would be no use; I was hopnig for a translation layer that emulated the playlist file structure over smb/nfs

I once lashed-up sort-of about half-a-one using Samba's plug-in system. It was never near finished, though, and certainly wasn't reliable. It was just as a proof-of-concept in case we ever wanted to offer SMB access in future networked products. However, we've only done one future networked product so far -- Karma -- and, as it runs Ecos not Linux, you can't use Samba plug-ins on it. I suspect that if someone did write such a thing, it'd be very popular. (Hurdle #1: stock Empeg kernels are compiled without some vital component -- SYSVIPC maybe? -- without which Samba won't work, but I think Hijack kernels do have it.)

Peter