From Afiestas Blog - 5 June 2012
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Let’s say for example that we have a collection of music in a NAS device and they are shared through Samba, can we reproduce them using any KDE application? or better, can we stream and reproduce them? the answer is sadly no.
There are a series of technical problems that we have to fix to make KDE software fully capable of streaming music, I won’t bother you with technical details just know that actions are being taken to fix this situation and because of KIO we should be able to stream music on applications that use it in no time hopefully in 4.9.0 or 4.9.1.
What about applications not using KIO, is there any way for making them work ? short answer is it depends.
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We are designing a solution that will make KIO available to any application, but that will take months of developing and testing and we needed something fast, something to include in Netrunner 4.2 Dryland SE… So we created samba-mounter.
Samba-mounter is a small piece of code that makes easy the usage of cifs, improving the experience of those who need to access files shared through samba.
You can download the code from here:
http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=scratch/afiestas/samba-mounter.gitI expect to write a blog post explaining the long-term solution in the following weeks.
Take a look at the following video:
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