I loved amarok back in the days I used KDE. KDE lost me with their complicated, too often broken solutions a long time ago, amarok was also developed to an unusable state, losing the cool features for broken stuff I didn’t need. But well, this is free, open, libre software – I got what I paid for. After a long time with interim solutions I discovered an unmaintained but still working tool called djmount. It provides access – via fuse – to the content served by any UPNP-server reachable under a single mount point.

Clementine is a fork of amarok, made by people equally unsatisfied with amaroks new direction as myself – but with more time and/or energy :-).

I now have clementine running, the library pointed at the djmounted Music ’Folder’. I have clementine set up to re-scan the library at start – resulting in an empty library the times I forgot to start djmount first. djmount itself needs the laptop to be connected to the network.