Amarok 2.X proxy settings
Sep.08, 2009 in
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I’ve been looking for a workaround for quite a while since Amarok developers didn’t put this on top of their priority list. As of version 2.1.1 the player still doesn’t have a proxy setting option in the Settings menu and this can get really annoying when you deal with multiple machines and play music on all of them behind a proxy server.
The only (reliable) solution I’ve found was to manually add the proxy settings to ~/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc:
[$Version]
update_info=kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r1,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r2,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r3
[Proxy Settings][$i]
ProxyType=1
httpProxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/
I found this workaround on a very useful Ubuntu forum. If you have other solutions please share.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Hmm this is strange, i never had issues with amarok connecting behind a network proxy. every internet aware service on amarok works very well indeed. but then am on kde 4 and i have setup my system wide proxy in kde KIO