On Friday, 5. October 2012. 1.08.30 Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 05.10.2012 00:08, schrieb Marko Vojinovic:
But the streaming server seems to be an overkill for my purposes. All I want is to put a "http://www.server.com/somefile.mp3" into the Amarok collection (local database, remote files), so that I can play it.
pure http is wrong for this, amarok works with a filesystem so mount the remotefs which is transparent for the application
- http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.davfs
- fuse.sshfs
- curlftpfs
Yes, that's one of the options I began contemplating, since I see that Amarok always asks for a location of the music somewhere inside /. I'll look into it, thanks!
I just want to be sure that there is no simpler way, before I go on to mount a remote filesystem. Also, will a remote filesystem give me trouble in the situations where I don't have an Internet connection? Will Amarok be able to cope with occasional (but regular) loss of the mount point?
On a side note, why do you say that pure http is wrong for this? From where I'm sitting, I see absolutely no reason to make a distinction between local music and remote music. It looks like an unneeded limitation of Amarok (or short-sightedness of its devs?) to require music to reside on a filesystem. Everything is becoming remote and "clouded" these days. :-) I would prefer the functionality of having a music collection which contains local files, remote http files, youtube links, .iso images of audio CD's, etc... Somehow I naively expected that Amarok already has this functionality... ;-)
Best, :-) Marko
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Marko Vojinovic