Hello!

I just played around with amarok 1.4 today and noticed that one band was missing from my collection.

The band in question is called "...but alive" and I wonder, if the leading dots, which are present in the directory name where the files are located are responsible for this.

Just tested: renaming any directory to "..something" or even ".something" makes it invisible for amarok...

Bug or feature?

-cord

Tested with amarok 1.4, guru-RPMS for SuSE 10.0 x86-64

a leading dot is the unix way to make a file hidden... so I would call that a feature because normaly you don't want to see hidden-files...

That would make this a feature of a filemanager (or the file manager tab of amarok). But I don't see why amarok should omit dot-directories when scanning the collection - especially when it *does not* omit filenames with leading dots, I can see AFX's .215061 Track without problems in the collection browser...

-cord

Hi there,
amarok scans the directory the unix way, so it's omitting dotted dirs and files. I think that's ok, because there could be a lot of hidden files in these directories. In my case there are:
the .directory for explaining the folder
a .folder.png for the icon of the directory
and all the files from the moodbar, one per track.
It's generally not a good idea to use special chars in filenames. The track with the leading dot is shown up, because its tags has been read by amarok.

Greetings

m0nk