I'm on Lion, can't get bootcamp windows 7 files to play in foo

2012-02-04 04:18:15

I have a macbook pro running windows 7 through bootcamp. I downloaded foobar, tried dragging mp3s and .cue files into the playlist window and nothing would show up in foobar. The mp3 files do work because they do play with windows media player. I have to first copy my music files from my osx partition over to windows, and THEN foobar will recognize it when I drag them into the playlist window. How caacn I get foobar to read my osx music files?

I'm on Lion, can't get bootcamp windows 7 files to play in foo

Reply #1 – 2012-02-04 06:23:47

Apple's BootCamp HFS+ driver is terribly broken. You can try using some other vendor's driver, at the peril of potentially corrupting your HFS+ volumes.

I'm on Lion, can't get bootcamp windows 7 files to play in foo

Reply #2 – 2012-02-04 07:21:01

i have no idea what hfs is but I guess that means there is no solution. Thanks!

I'm on Lion, can't get bootcamp windows 7 files to play in foo

Reply #3 – 2012-02-04 07:55:07

Yes, there is a solution, if you dare to try it. HFS+ is the file system of Mac OS X partitions. The driver Apple supplies for reading them is somewhat flaky. There are alternative drivers, such as Paragon HFS+, but I've read that it may lead to damaging your Mac partitions, so it may not be worth using.

One solution I know will work is to use Paragon NTFS from the Mac side for read/write access to your Windows NTFS partitions from OS X, so you may keep your collection and other shared data on a Windows partition instead of the Mac partition.

I'm on Lion, can't get bootcamp windows 7 files to play in foo

Reply #4 – 2012-02-04 09:16:19

thanks i will look into the paragon setup

I'm on Lion, can't get bootcamp windows 7 files to play in foo

Reply #5 – 2012-02-04 12:38:39

a. or exFAT, which should be usefull with osx and win (without any additional drivers on each site), but i only ever used that with my portable usb drive, so cant vouch. Lion's disk utility can format to exFAT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
b. or boot windows from osx as virtual machine using Parallels (commercial), yes it can boot your bootcamp install
c. make a new win virtual machine using free VirtualBox
d. wine

I'm on Lion, can't get bootcamp windows 7 files to play in foo

Reply #6 – 2012-02-04 14:22:14

exFAT for HDs is a terrible suggestion.