Re: playing mp3's from my mac on linux?

[Erik de Castro Lopo <nospam@mega-nerd.com>]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:54:20 -0400
Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
> running sid on a b&w g3...  
> 
> I have several gigs of mp3's from my old mac on an hfsplus partition
> of a firewire drive.  I made these files in MacOS 9.2, in the bad old
> dazs when I didn't run linux at home.
> 
> Problem is, I can't get any of the GUI mp3 players to recognize these 
> files as mp3's.  I know, for instance, that xmms, zinf, and alsaplayer 
> all work fine on a test file I downloaded from my office computer.  
> Moreover, mpg123 will play any given file from the partition in question 
> just fine, though it might complain about "junk at beginning of file".  

My guess is that when you mount the hfsplus partition, the filesystem
presents the resource and data forks of these files as a single file,
prepending the resource fork onto the start of the file.

You might want to see if hfsplus has a mount option to present just the
data fork of the file.

Hope this helps,
Erik
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