I'm trying to rewrite some scripts I have for Amarok to work on Amarok2. One of the things I'm getting stuck on is loading a playlist.

In Amarok1 I used to do something like this:
            dcop amarok playlist clearPlaylist;
            dcop amarok playlist playMedia "$playlist";

For Amarok2 I tried:
            qdbus org.kde.amarok /TrackList org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.AddTrack "$playlist" 1

But this only seems to work for adding single tracks. It won't load an m3u file. Also it won't clear the playlist which is something I would like.

Giving up on dbus I've also tried:
            amarok --load "$playlist"

This should do what I want, but instead it gives a nonsensical error saying "Amarok is already running!". Amarok is of course already running, I'm not sure why it thinks that's a problem.

Anyone have any idea how to get this working?