Version: 1.4.8 (using KDE 3.5.9) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Compiler: I installed amarok from the kubuntu amd64 repositories. OS: Linux I have a dual boot system (Linux, windows) and a common partition that unfortunately it is ntfs, for the reason to be able to be seen from both operating systems. In the common ntfs drive I have my mp3 files and I have also my playlists that the paths are windows paths. It would be nice if I could load these playlists directly under linux! For example, If the paths are relative you can see something like: #EXTM3U #EXTINF:341,Artist - XXXXXX Artist\XXXXXX.mp3 Or if the paths are absolute something like this: #EXTM3U #EXTINF:341,Artist - XXXXXX C:\Music\Artist\XXXXXX.mp3 It would be nice if the Amarok could determine that this is a windows playlist and if the paths are relative just change the "\" to "/" so that the files will be playable under linux without the need of recreating a new playlist :) So the above it could be like this and then it would be playable under linux: #EXTM3U #EXTINF:341,Artist - XXXXXX Artist/XXXXXX.mp3 If the paths are absolute it could be checking the mounted ntfs drives and changing instead of just the "\" to "/", also the windows drive letter "C:" or "D:"whatever to the correct folder that the corresponding drive is mounted! Lets say that if you have mounted the drive C: to /media/Winblows the above example should be #EXTM3U #EXTINF:341,Artist - XXXXXX /media/Winblows/Music/Artist/XXXXXX.mp3 Also after the change it should ask you if you want to save the playlist in the linux format :) That`s the brainstorm! Thanks, Vangelis.
Makes sense to me. Shouldn't be so hard to implement either. Considering that Amarok 2 runs on Windows too, we'll have to deal with that anyway.
Qt/kdelibs already handles file paths on windows, we don't need t do anything special. The \ -> / is probably easy to do, if Qt doesn't already. But I'm not going to implement a windows drive letter to unix mount-point translation, just save them with relative paths.
2.3.1 is in feature freeze -> 2.3.2
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Changed title and severity. Is this still valid with latest 2.4-git? I can't test here as I don't have a windows installation around.
Yes, playlists still contain absolute (and OS-dependent) paths, as does the collection database. You actually don't need to have a Windows version of Amarok to verify that - if you look into the database, and see some paths starting with '/', and no drive letter in an extra column somewhere, you can be sure that won't work on Windows.
Isn't this fixed now with more recent Qt versions?
Patrick: is this still valid?
So apparently there is no easy fix for this, changing status.