playlist_song: allow references to songs outside the musicdir

When we have an absolute path that's not inside the music directory,
allow loading it anyway, if we're in "secure" mode (i.e. the client is
connected via UNIX socket).

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 933b9795..2577f9d9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ ver 0.17 (2011/??/??)
   - raop: new output plugin
   - shout: add possibility to set url
   - roar: new output plugin for RoarAudio
+* playlist:
+  - allow references to songs outside the music directory
 * state_file: add option "restore_paused"
 * cue: show CUE track numbers
 * allow port specification in "bind_to_address" settings
diff --git a/src/playlist_song.c b/src/playlist_song.c
index afdc0cf9..d40ef63c 100644
--- a/src/playlist_song.c
+++ b/src/playlist_song.c
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ playlist_check_translate_song(struct song *song, const char *base_uri,
 	if (uri_has_scheme(uri)) {
 		dest = song_remote_new(uri);
 		g_free(uri);
+	} else if (g_path_is_absolute(uri) && secure) {
+		dest = song_file_load(uri, NULL);
+		if (dest == NULL) {
+			song_free(song);
+			return NULL;
+		}
 	} else {
 		dest = db_get_song(uri);
 		g_free(uri);