Remote Amarok music collection?

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Friday, 5. October 2012. 11.44.53 Reindl Harald wrote:
> but anyways - how would you imagine amarok work only with http?
> amarok is indexing the collection folder
> this is not possible with http at all

I don't expect it to be indexed. It would be enough (for me) to have an URL in 
the collection database. The remaining data (ID3tag etc.) can be pulled in on 
the first playback or similar.

I am not actually sure what kind of indexing is being performed at all (with 
local files). Isn't the "collection" just a list of all music files with their 
paths (and tags and stuff), written in some database? In this respect, I still 
don't see how a file obtained from http is any different from a file obtained 
from a local hard disk.

Note, though, that I have remained fairly ignorant about this whole media 
player technology since the time of WinAMP and XMMS (cca 1995), so I am not 
exactly well informed about how and why the design of Amarok is the way it is.

Best, :-)
Marko