amarok does not add smb:// urls to playlist

[Grigory Rechistov]

Binary package hint: amarok

I am using Amarok 2.1.1 and KDE 4.2 RC2. In several previous versions of Amarok and in the current one when I drag'n'drop music files from e.g. Dolphin that are located on Samba servers, i.e. that have URLs with smb:// in them, the player just silently ignores it. This is a regression since 1.4.10 version.

[Steven van der Vegt (s-vandervegt)]

I can reproduce this bug.
I run Amarok v 2.2.0 with Kubuntu 9.10 RC. Browsing samba shares from the files menu works, but adding doesn't do anything. For me an very annoying bug since I live on a university with a large 3000+ samba shares and I don't want to mount them all.

[Steven van der Vegt (s-vandervegt)]

I made a patch witch has been merged this morning with the main branch. So I think this one may be closed now?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We can't close this here until it is in our packages. (We do set it as fix *committed* as there's a fix upstream)
Thanks for the bugfix too. :)

[Zaar Hai (haizaar)]

I'm also suffering from this bug. Any change to see ithis fix in Karmic soon?

Thanks.

[Zaar Hai (haizaar)]

Bump...
Well, I'm sincerely asking to fix this. Most of my music in SMB share and this make Kubuntu Amarok just useless for me :(
Are there any plans to progress with this or should I start to look for Amarok nightly PPAs?

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

Steven's patch is in the credits for the 2.2.1 release [1] which can be installed from here [2]. Updating to this version should fix the problem for everyone. Thanks Steven!

[1] http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.2.1
[2] http://www.kubuntu.org/news/amarok-2.2.1