Fedora fixed this in June 2015. If a read their solution correctly ( https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/amarok.git/commit/?id=fa50109140fa4482bbd1ced79ed4daf440f568ee), it's just a matter of pulling in the upstream commit mentioned in the op.
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