[Sorry, I accidently posted this to the wrong forum first]
Hi,

I am running a streaming server in order to be able to access my music collection with different clients (hardware and software) over my home network. If I select a number of songs with the server's Web interface, it sends an m3u playlist that plays fine with XMMS and other clients. With AmaroK, I can play the songs too, but I am not able to skip in a song or to other songs of the list. Reason: AmaroK modifies the playlist and makes it unusable.

Example of an unmodified playlist as delivered by the server:

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[#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:494,A Cat Strikes Back - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=403.mp3
#EXTINF:324,Walk On Air - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=400.mp3
#EXTINF:265,Just Play - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=401.mp3
#EXTINF:519,Nightowls - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=402.mp3
#EXTINF:677,Samba And The Drum Stick - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=406.mp3
#EXTINF:362,Easy Going - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=399.mp3
#EXTINF:503,Visions - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=407.mp3
#EXTINF:513,Andre's Mood - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=405.mp3
#EXTINF:467,Junkanoo - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=404.mp3


This is the same playlist saved with AmaroK after havind played some of the songs. Please note that some #EXTINF records are modified. These belong to songs that were played.

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EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,music
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=403.mp3
#EXTINF:324,Walk On Air - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=400.mp3
#EXTINF:265,Just Play - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=401.mp3
#EXTINF:519,Nightowls - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=402.mp3
#EXTINF:0,
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=406.mp3
#EXTINF:503,Visions - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=407.mp3
#EXTINF:513,Andre's Mood - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=405.mp3
#EXTINF:467,Junkanoo - Barbara Dennerlein
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=404.mp3
#EXTINF:0,music
http://192.168.1.3:3010/music.php?ID=399.mp3


Questions:
- How can I avaoid that AmaroK modifies a playlist?
- Could this be a bug that I should report?
- What would be a better way for getting a playlist from the server? I am in contact with the developer of the server software, an he could possibly test this.

[Edit]
Forgot to mention that I'm running Amarok on Kubuntu 6.06 with the arts engine
bash(60)amarok --version
Qt: 3.3.6
KDE: 3.5.3
amaroK: 1.3.9
[/Edit]

Any help appreciated,

Wolfgang

Hello,

a followup to my own post:

I just installed AmaroK 1.4.1 and that version does not munch the playlist any more. So now I can replay a list from the server without problems. Still I can't seek inside a song with the slider in the player window.

The new version uses the xine engine (arts engine no longer available), so I don't know whether the new amarok or the xine engine caused the improvement. But I think the seek problem is caused by the xine engine because I have similar problems with streamed video using Kaffeine with xine engine.

Regards,

Wolfgang