Hi all.. First post here. As a long time faithful user (well at least a few years) of Amarok I have to say, It ranks right up there as one of the best players around. The devteam has outdone themselves...

So with that said I'll rant:

Me and a lot of other people around the world usually play media from konqueror. We open Amarok and it's minimized to the tray.. Then in konqueror we browse around our music collection clicking one song after another. A while back with an older version you could just doubleclick a song and it would play it. Doubleclick another song, it would play that one. And so on and so on... But lately with the last few new versions doubleclicking will only add to the list. Unless the playlist is empty. It used to clear the list that was there and just play the single song...  How can we go back to the way it was?  It sure is kinda odd how we can only pick and choose from inside Amarok player. I thought Konqueror was a file manager!  I want to manage my music files..   Anyway thats my rant!!

I can't agree strongly enough with this.  I feel Amarok has been robbed of some of it's original functionality with this change.

I use Ampache to catalog and stream my collection and it used to integrate perfectly with Amarok.  I could just set up a new playlist in Ampache and all would be sweet - Amarok would clear the current playlist and start the newly received one.

Now I'm forced to switch over to Amarok to skip through what is remaining of the old playlist and start playing from the head of the new one.  What used to be a one step process is now a little awkward.

I can see how this now mode of operation might be useful somewhere but I'd seriously love to have the old mode back too.  As a KDE app there should be no reason to keep configurability away from the end user - that is why most people choose KDE in the first place.

Lovely app otherwise!

Guys, what's with the anger? Gimme some love. The solution is really simple, and running "amarok --help" would have given you a clue:


  -l, --load                Load URLs, replacing current playlist
  -p, --play                Start playing current playlist


Hint: "amarok -l -p"


You idiots! (as Dr House would say) 

And if you adapt Amarok's .desktop file you will be even able to change Amarok's behaviour when loading files from konquerer. Search the forums in another thread on the same subject for how to do this.

I'm not sure where the anger is you refer to but anyway here's how I've now overcome this (as suggested) just to save anyone else having to search elsewhere within the forums:

As I run Amarok via Opera I edited the MIME associations for M3U playlists to start Amarok with the --play and --load arguments.

Problem solved.  Thanks. 

So if I understand it, that will only fix the command line amarok and context menus?

What about within Amarok? Is there a way to make double clicking clear the list, open the selection, and start playing the selection?

The most direct way I understand to play music once I've found the album in Collection view is to right click, load, then double click on the file in the playlist. It seems very counter-intuitive to me (I have never found much use for queuing in any music player - the few times I have used it, I've just dragged the album onto the end of the playlist)

I looked at all the files in Symantic that amarok uses and searched through them - it seems as though every .desktop file you mention is for context menu commands in KDE...is there a hidden configuration file that can alter in-program double clicks? Thanks,
[bunnyfly]