Amarok: "Generic Audio Player" with space in mountpoint

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[PROBLEM]
With Amarok 1.4.9.1, I've had the problem that I couldn't use its built-in media transfer feature to handle a generic (USB mass storage) MP3 player, because all files in the queue were failing. The reason for this was that the mount point of the MP3 player (e.g. "/media/MY PLAYER/") had a space in its name.

[SOLUTION]
It's not really a solution, but more a workaround, but:
Create a symlink without spaces in its name, pointing to the actual mount point. For example:

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ln -s "/media/MY PLAYER" /media/myplayer

And then point amarok to that directory instead of the original one.

(Note to myself: Check if this problem is already known to the Amarok developers and if not, submit a bugreport)