Hello. Amarok likes to pop up strange notifications related to UPnP. I haven't found what could be the trigger, but it does happen daily -- usually a few minutes after I start Amarok, then a few times during the course of the day.

The notification looks like this:



I have no idea what Amarok is trying to tell me with that. It's all rubbish to me. As such I find it annoying, and I'd like to disable it. I haven't found out how to disable those notifications, though.

So -- what is this about? Why does Amarok want to tell me that? What does it mean anyway? And why does Amarok do anything UPnP-related at all?

My only actual complain is that it's annoying -- so I'd like to get rid of it, if possible. I'm not sure if it's a bug or not, so I'm asking here first.

I'm running Amarok 2.4.0 on KDE 4.6.2, the OS is FreeBSD 8.1. I am behind a router with NAT and UPnP enabled that's supposed to allow applications to forward ports automatically. (I'm mentioning this because it's the only place I've consciously met UPnP so far.)

you could try disabling "upnp collections" in plugin settings

I can't see any "plugin settings" anywhere. The Settings menu only contains Configure Shortcuts and Configure Amarok items -- Configure Amarok doesn't contain anything plugin related except for Internet Services, and there's no notion of UPnP there. (For the record, the only Internet Service enabled is the Last.fm service.) Script Manager doesn't contain anything UPnP-related either.

I'm running git (what will be 2.4.1) so maybe not in 2.4.0?

That menu was added since 2.4.0, yes.

Phantom file copy notifications are triggered by the 'now playing' Plasma widget, which is broken. Remove that and you should be sorted.

Nope. Nothing like that in 2.4.0.

Guess I could try the git version as well, but still... There should be a reason for this pop-up.

Also I'm not using the "Now Playing" widget. I only have Kickoff, Task Manager, System Tray, Clock and Show Desktop on my panel. I have nothing outside of the panel.

This message mentions the upnp-ms:// protocol, which likely indicates it comes from within Amarok itself, from it's UPnP AV support.

Amarok therefore must not be setting the appropriate flag on the IO it is performing (using KIO) to have it done silently. Please file a bug report at bugs.kde.org if one does not already exist.