On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 17:14, Brian Blater <brb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just upgraded to Amarok 2.4.3 on my Ubuntu 11.04 box using the ppa > by philip5. I'm using an external MySQL database which is finally > working in 2.4.3 as I couldn't get it to connect to the db in earlier > releases (a reported problem from what I saw). I've got the following > issues that I can't seem to get working. Not sure if I just haven't > configured things correctly or what. > > 1. I can't seem to get the lyrics plugin to work. It just shows a "Fetch > Error". > 2. The wikipedia artist info isn't working either. I just get > "Wikipedia: unable to retrieve wikipedia information > http://en.wikipedia.org"; > 3. Because of the two problems above I went to "configure amarok" and > clicked on Scripts. The only items selected at this time are > Lyricwiki, Cool Streams and Librivox.org. If I click on Manage Scripts > I get an empty dialogue box and an error at the bottom "loading of > providers from file: http://download.kde.org/providers.xml failed. I > can browse to the file just fine. > 4. I also can't get the Cover Manager to find any covers for the > albums that don't have covers at this time. I will go through fetching > the covers, but everything is reported as "failed." > 5. I have some playlists in M3U format. How can I import them? I've > tried adding the playlist directory to the amarok library and it finds > the m3u, but if I update the tag of the file, rating for example, the > track in amarok does not recognize the change. I don't really want to > go through and completely recreate all the playlists. > > I've done some Google searches and that has not provided any working > solutions to the above problems. I'm hoping someone else has seen > these problems and knows of a fix or a change to my configuration I > need to supply.
Please dismiss point 3. that is totally the wrong way and not related. For the rest: these are all internet services, are you behind a proxy? Apparently no information can be retrieved, so something is wrong with your internet connection, not with Amarok. Regards, Myriam -- Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
