Ubuntu
amarok package

no way to choose where podcasts are stored

Bug #84180 reported by Will Thompson
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: amarok

I keep all of my music and media on a partition separate from the one on which /home lives. Unfortunately, Amarok downloads podcasts to ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts, and there is no way to make it dump them in another directory. The unhappy side-effect is that /home became full and my mail client started screaming at me.

Ideally, podcasts would be dumped into a subdirectory of the music library directory. Another solution would be to add yet another option to the already-crowded prefs window.

My workaround was to put a symlink at ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts to the right place, but it's not exactly intuitive. :-)

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Andrew Ash (ash211) wrote :

Thank you for the bug report, Will.

Choosing where the podcasts are downloaded seems like a very reasonable request to me. In order for this to be implemented you will need to file a bug at bugs.kde.org for the amarok devs to actually hear this request. Please link to it here if you choose to forward this upstream.

Unfortunately at the moment, Amarok is in a transitioning period from KDE3 to future KDE4, so no new releases will be out for about 6 months (rough developer estimate). Future work in the 1.4 branch (latest releases) will be mostly bugfixes.

Please do file the bug upstream anyway to get it into their bugtracker. Thanks!

Changed in amarok:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Will Thompson (wjt) wrote :

And in fact it turns out that bugs.kde.org contains http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120701 , which explains that this option already exists: right-click on Podcasts and choose Configure Children.

Apologies for spurious bug reports.

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Andrew Ash (ash211) wrote :

It's fine. On 1.4.5 it looks like the attached screenshot. I didn't know this option existed.

Changed in amarok:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
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