Version: 2.3.2 (using KDE 4.5.3) OS: Linux Try to "amarok -l 'sftp://remotehost/my/file.mp3'" with some example file and amarok simply won't load it. It does not even replace the playlist with me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try to add a file which is not supported by the phonon-backend by default, e.g. http, to be sure that you are trying to use the KIO-Phonon fallback. kde-open copies the file and opens it in audacity for me, so there is nothing deeper failing. Actual Results: No loading, no playback. Expected Results: Loading into the playlist and playback. This would really be handy not so much for sftp, but for smb:/ and especially for a pet project of mine, where you can stream load files from a torrent through KTorrent and open them transparently through kio with a "magnet://"-link reference (works similar to http:// links). Loading audio files from a torrent (especially once the slave properly supports directory listing) would allow to directly playback any file from the torrent, for example the ones from Jamendo.
Could you please upgrade to a newer Amarok version and test again? Current is Amarok 2.4.0, Amarok 2.4.1 is to be released tomorrow. Please report back.
Any news on this? Without feedback within 2 weeks I will close this as fixed.
Closing for lack of feedback. Feel free to reopen if you can still reproduce this with Amarok 2.4.2 beta 1 or later and provide the necessary feedback.