Bug 127732

Summary:	Amarok shouldn't modify pre-existing playlists that it imports
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Daniel Thaler <Daniel>
Component:	Playlists/Saved Playlists	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	twodeko
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Daniel Thaler 2006-05-21 00:03:24 UTC

Version:           1.4.0a (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9) 
OS:                Linux

I added a directory on a netwok share to my collection that contained someone else's mp3s; a whole bunch of playlists (which I didn't even want) got imported along with the music.

While importing them amarok modified the paths stored in the playlists from windows paths (eg Z:\foo.mp3) to linux paths (like /mnt/mp3/foo.mp3). That is obviously no good :(

Comment 1 Richard Neill 2006-06-01 22:56:15 UTC

I just got bitten by this. I keep my music in a directory hierarchy; each directory contains a single album and an m3u file (*). The m3u files contain a list of the files with RELATIVE paths.

On Scanning the collection, Amarok has messed up the m3u files. There are 2 things it did wrong:

1)It wrote to the files in the first place. I asked Amarok to SCAN the collection, not to MODIFY it.

2)It changed the paths to ABSOLUTE paths. As a result, the m3u files now won't work if I copy the music directories to another machine.


(*)My ogg-ripping script generates these with 
   cd $outputdir; ls -1 *.ogg > $playlistname.m3u

Comment 2 isorashi 2006-06-27 21:37:07 UTC

This happened to me--I have a bunch of music that I export so a coworker can listen to it.  I had relative playlists for everything I ripped to the comp, and I just realized today that amarok had gone and changed the playlists to use the absolute paths.  It doesn't affect *me* but affects anyone who wants to use my playlists to listen to music.  I'm a little miffed at this. :P

Comment 3 Martin Aumueller 2006-10-22 15:01:06 UTC

*** Bug 127635 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Chuck Miller 2008-06-16 04:00:07 UTC

[code]
chuck@chuck-debian:/media/storage/sorted/2$ ls -1 *.mp3 > testplaylist.m3u
chuck@chuck-debian:/media/storage/sorted/2$ cat testplaylist.m3u
Part-Time_Lover.mp3
The_hacker_Rap.mp3
Windows_95_sucks.mp3

#rescanned collection here, and playlist was correctly imported
chuck@chuck-debian:/media/storage/sorted/2$ cat testplaylist.m3u
Part-Time_Lover.mp3
The_hacker_Rap.mp3
Windows_95_sucks.mp3
[/code]

Tested on amarok 1.4.9.1

Seems to me it's fixed

Comment 5 Seb Ruiz 2008-07-03 13:01:15 UTC

closing then