On Thursday 04 Oct 2012 16:55:00 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > 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. > > Amarok doesn't appear to have a "load playlist from a txt file" kind of > option. > > N.B. I've been using Amarok for about 20 minutes total, so please tell > me that I have missed something really obvious. ;-) > > :-) > > Marko Have a look at Ampache (http://ampache.org) I have mp3's in my OwnCloud, and that uses ampache to serve them to me using Amarok I haven't installed ampache as a stand alone thing, but I think with a little reading of the documentation it shouldn't be too hard, and it'll do what your after Amarok supports ampache btw Hope that helps Martin
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