i am facing the same problem. i am behind a proxy but when i used amarok with kubuntu , it was working just fine but in ubuntu 11.04 its not working.
Bugzilla from myr...@kde.org wrote: > > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Amarok-2.4.3-Quirkiness-or-is-it-Just-Me--tp32771297p33544630.html Sent from the Amarok - Main mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
