Amarok is a pain

My current favourite distro is gentoo. I same from slackware, so that should not be too difficult a route to figure. Apart from the draw of packages customized to squeeze the processor, there is the customization. And with all this, it still workds amazingly well.

Anyway, I have my mp3s on a fileserver. Before, using xmms, i could just browse them, and play. But xmms is going away.. gentoo says it has too many bugs, and no maintainer. So I tried amarok. Its good, apart from going off in the trees sometimes updating it’s ‘collection’.

But getting it to see the files on the share was a trial. First using a samba share; nothing. It could be the mp3 tags, because it could see a few directories, but no. It was permissions.

I found this that spilled the beans. Ok so it didn’t quite work out, but it pointed the way.

I have been playing around with fuse, and with this line did the trick:

sshfs -C -o uid=1000,gid=100,ro myserver:/my/music/share /mnt/local


I pointed amarok at /mnt/local, and it works!

What can I say? (Except the collection scanning code is far too picky).