Remote Amarok music collection?

[Mark Haney]

Hi folks! :-)

I am trying to migrate from XMMS to Amarok, with the hope of improved
functionality and ease of dealing with my music collection.

So I have a very trivial problem: my music collection is now on a http
server. How do I get Amarok to make a collection database out of that,
short of downloading all that to a local disk? The very point of
having all the files on a http server is that I *don't* want to have
them on a local disk. So I want Amarok to create a database of the
files present on the server, from which I can later create playlists.
The music would stay on the server, and Amarok would read the files
over http and play them one by one.

I can do all this trivially with, say, mplayer --- I just need a text
file containing lines of http://www.myserver.com/music.mp3, and it
would play if I do a "mplayer -playlist myplaylist.txt". What I want
is to do the equivalent in Amarok, since I expect to have a better UI
regarding the order of files, shuffle&repeat stuff, etc.

I gotta tell you, if you have it all on an HTTP server, why not use icecast?  Or one of the either streaming media servers?  I use icecast for mine since I have my MP3 jukebox (with 6TB of Mp3s) sitting in my server room and can stream that to anyone in the house who wants it.  There are even customised playlists for the kids and things.  Although, IIRC  those I setup to pick music in certain folders, that way there was no real configuration issues for me.




Marko
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