Created attachment 128353 [details] screenshot of bookmark settings SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. In Media Sources create at least two bookmarks for different views (filter by path and sort by tags) 2. Switch between those two bookmarks OBSERVED RESULT The files that are displayed do not match with the bookmark settings. EXPECTED RESULT The content displayed should change according to the bookmark. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Ubuntu Studio 18.04, xfce General Information: Amarok Version: 2.9.0 KDE Version: 4.14.38 Qt Version: 4.8.7 Phonon Version: 4.10.0 Phonon Backend: GStreamer (4.9.0) PulseAudio: Yes Enabled Scripts: Enabled Plugins: MySQL Collection (1.0) Universal Mass Storage Collection (1.0) UPnP Collection (1.0) Jamendo (1.0) Podcast Directory (1.0) Amarok 1.4 (FastForward) Importer (1.0) Amarok 2.x Importer (1.0) Enabled Applets: Analyzer Current Track ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - I have stored my entire collection on a NAS that is mounted via nfs. Access to media files is no problem. - I created several bookmarks, to filter the displayed files by path and to sort them by different tags. This works fine in principle, i.e. the bookmark's URL is valid in my opinion. - However when switching between bookmarks, the path filtering is usually ignored. I must repeat the process and recall the specific bookmark several times until eventually the displayed list matches the expectations. The fact the it eventually works, makes me believe that the URL is valid in principle. - Sometimes I have the feeling that pressing the "clear text" button in the search field might improve the chances that it works, but then again, I cannot see a real dependency. - I also had the impression that the first bookmark that is loaded after Amarok has started has a higher chance to be loaded correctly, but again I do not see any regularity. - This bug might be related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336237
I still suspect this to be related with the remote path: Can you reproduce this with any local files?
(In reply to Myriam Schweingruber from comment #1) > I still suspect this to be related with the remote path: > Can you reproduce this with any local files? Thanks for the advice. I am currently checking this and will report asap.
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Sorry for the delay, but it was harder than I thought to run a test with a result that seems consistent enough to post it here. short version: the remote part doe not seem to be the problem long version: To reproduce the behaviour with local files I created two folders. Folder path 1: /home/myuser/Musik/Amarok_Test/Collection_Negative/Collection_Negative Folder path 2: /home/myuser/Musik/Amarok_Test/Collection_Negative/Collection_Earth - Each folder contains exactly one album by a different artist. - The files exist “physically” on the same drive as Amarok. - The mp3 tags of the files are set correctly. - The folder /home/myuser/Musik/Amarok_Test inlcuding its sub-folders was added to the local collection. - Any other folders were deselected. - Next I created corresponding bookmarks in Amarok, to filter the library by path name, and to define a different sorting for each bookmark. Col_Negative: amarok://navigate/collections?filter=Dateiname:%22Collection_Negative%22&levels=albumartist-album&show_cover=false&show_years=false Col_Earth: amarok://navigate/collections?filter=Dateiname:%22Collection_Earth%22&levels=album&show_cover=false&show_years=false When I restart Amarok and select the bookmarks from the pull-down menu, the following things can/will happen. 1) Selecting Col_Earth - both albums are shown - they are sorted by ‘album’ only - they cannot be expanded in the left pane tree - they cannot be added to the playlist 2) Pressing the “clear text” button in the search field - both albums are shown - they are sorted by ‘album’ - they can be expanded in the left pane tree - they can be added to the playlist 3) Selecting Col_Negative - both albums are shown - they are sorted by ‘album artist’ and then by ‘album’ - they cannot be expanded in the left pane tree - they cannot be added to the playlist 4) Pressing the “clear text” button again Same result as described under 2) 5) Selecting Col_Negative again - the left pane is completely empty - the empty list is sorted by ‘album artist’ and then by ‘album’ 6) Selecting Col_Negative and Col_Earth alternately - the left pane remains completely empty - the sorting seems to change arbitrarily without any noticeable logic As I had the feeling that the problem might be related to the sorting, I created two more bookmarks, in which I only made one change, that is to define the same sorting order for both bookmarks. And now for the funny part: I am 99% sure, that when I started to write this posting this morning, these two new bookmarks showed indeed a different behaviour. Now in the evening, as I continue this post, the result is exactly the same as described above (steps 1-6). This matches my impression, that the behaviour on selecting the bookmarks is not fully reproducible. That (besides a lot of work) is one reason why it took me so long to reply to your question. As written in my original post, I've sometimes had the feeling that clearing the search box improves the chances that the bookmark might work as expected (by me). Like as if there is a line of code missing, the one that clears the current view before applying the newly selected bookmark. But nothing was reproducible enough to see a pattern. So maybe this is all me. I am a long-time Windows and Win Amp user, and started with Linux and Amarok only a few months ago. Maybe I do miss something essential or my understanding/expectation regarding the function of bookmarks is “wrong”. As written any help is appreciated, as I do not want to go back to Windows at all. And Amarok seems to be the best program of many that I checked out during the last months.
New information was added with comment 4; changing status for inspection.