Hi all,

please could you advise me how to configure file association to get the following behavior:
Case 1:
- Amarok is not running.
- I press enter on a music file.
- Amarok starts
- The content of the playlist (if exists) is discarded (automatically)
- The file is enqueued in the Amarok's play list - it is the only one in the playlist (automatically)
- Amarok starts to play the file (automatically)

Case 2:
- Amarok is running.
- I press enter on a music file.
- Amarok does not starts another instance, i.e. the current one is used
- The content of the playlist (if exists) is discarded (automatically)
- The file is enqueued in the Amarok's play list - it is the only one in the playlist (automatically)
- Amarok starts to play the file (automatically)

Currently I have the following setting: "amarok %F --play" and the following problems:
for Case 1: Amarok starts but in a strange way because no window appears and it's icon is not in the tray bar. It can be found on via ps -A. Subsequently, when I start Amarok (e.g. from menu), Amarok's window appears and the file is in the playlist.
for Case 2: The file is enqueued at the end of the playlist and does not start to play.

Tanks in advance for any suggestions.

Could you please specify your Amarok and KDE versions?

Sorry, I forgot it. Amarok 2.7.1, KDE 4.10.5

Then I suggest you upgrade to Amarok 2.8 first, as there were some changes in the playlist and playback handling.

OK, done, upgraded. Now Amarok starts playing files fine but each file is enqueued right after the currently playing one instead of at the end of the list. Using "amarok %F --append" does not help because in such case the file is enqueued at the end but not started to play.

I think that is the normal queue behavior, if you append you don't append to playlist but you append to queue. But I think the devs know more about, asking them

Hi,
this may be an unwanted side-effect of some changes to append and play actions in Amarok 2.8. Specifically, Bug #322457.

Please comment on the bug and tell how you'd like
amarok --append --play file.mp3
to behave.

What is rather fixed and won't likely change:
amarok file.mp3 # plays it immediately, prepending the track to the queue / inserting it right after currently playing one.
amarok --append file.mp3 # appends at the end of the playlist, never starts playback