Not playing songs with spaces in file names?

[Ben K]

I assume you're using Gnome, based on the fact that you can't find KDE sound
engine settings.

Ironically enough the easiest way to do what you describe is outside of
Amarok. Nautilus will preview a song if you hover over it for a few seconds.
If you configure your Gnome file associations such that mp3
(ogg/flac/whatever) files have a default action of append to playlist in
Amarok, you can then double click the files you like the sound of and add
them in Amarok.

Anyone got any ideas for a way to do similar in Amarok itself? I personally
think this is rare use case / weird way to build a playlist but everyone's
different I guess. No offense is intended, Bill. I know most of what I want
to listen to already as I'm familiar with a lot of my library.

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:56:27PM -0500, Jud Craft wrote:
> > To the original poster, Bill:  I'd try the phonon-xine engine like
> > they said, possibly try moving your music to a standard linux
> > partition (as opposed to a flash drive or a windows partition), and
> > _not_ uninstalling things willy-nilly just yet.
>
> All the music is on ext3.  I can't seem to get to any settings to
> change the engine -- and when I start Amarok I do get a pop-up warning
> saying HDA Intel doesn't work and it's changing to "default".
>
> I just wrote a script that renamed any path that included an
> underscore.  Amarok plays the music fine now.  (Maybe Amarok could
> have done that, but I prefer to use Perl for things like that.)
>
>
> Now I need to make some play lists.  Any good tricks for previewing
> songs quickly and then appending to the list?  I probably need to
> listen to a few seconds of most songs before I know if I want to add.
>
>
>
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