No, this change only effects collection, which usally doesn't cause a crash when playing ;-)
Neverless, I think this behaviour of crashing when playing from samba share should have been fixed in 1.4 -- Dapper Flight 4: AmaroK crashes when trying to play .mp3 or .wav from a Samba share https://launchpad.net/bugs/32436 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs