Hello, On ketvirtadienis 11 Kovas 2010 20:37:37 Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > Well, if all this was true for everyone, it could justify serious, but > > now even important is way too much. All these bugs point to collection > > DB corruption. > > If the DB is getting corrupt I would even argue that it's a dataloss > thing and would be grave.
No since there is no amarok 2 in Lenny and this problem is likely to be collection DB "upgrading" issue. Upstream messes up collection more frequently than I would like to (like forgets to bump "abi" number or some buggy schema migration) hence if you are upgrading from any previous releases, DB might (or not) solely be corrupt due to this. I still have a feeling a that collections are buggy wrt various artists but overall they look somewhat more predictable now. IMHO, only with 2.3, amarok is somewhat approaching maturity on key categories. > > > Some of the things that annoy me: > > > - Adding a new track to the collection seems to completly mess up > > > > > > the meta data. I now see a "Tainted Love" from "Deep Purple" on > > > the album "Waking up the neighbours", with the cover art from > > > Waking up the neighbours. Waking up the neighbours is al album > > > from Bryan Adams. Tainted Love is a song from Soft Cell. And > > > it actually plays Tainted Love. Some combinations of > > > Artist / Song still seems to be correct, the album never is as > > > far as I can see. > > > "Fully rescan collection" or "Update collection" also doesn't > > > seem to be fixing this anymore. > > > Restarting amarok seems to be fixing it, atleast for tracks that > > > still need to be played, not for those that already played. > > > > Tried wiping out the whole database from ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok ? > > Amarok messes up meta data sometimes but this is too much. > > No I didn't. And I also think that's no solution. There are > already ways to rescan/update the whole collection which shouldn't > even be needed if things worked properly. Those "ways" may not help if bogus data was written to the DB due to some random bug in the past (esp. bogus various artists detection). > > > - Sometimes it has no idea which track it's playing if you try to > > > > > > ask meta data about it. It doesn't tell you which file it is, > > > all fields are empty, but does seems to know the directory it's > > > saved in if you press the open folder button. > > > > Never seen this before. > > I just had this happen again to me. I just started amarok and > it's already the case. So my memory was a little wrong, it still > shows the meta data, but not the name of the file. And it's only > for the tracks off the colection, not from those of the playlist. > This is currently very reproducible for me, but I it sometimes > works. > > > > - Every time a track is played it fetches lyrics and starts this > > > > > > new circle with dots in it that go round. It keeps running > > > forever and never gets cleaned up, so after some time you end > > > up with alot of them. There are alot of them at the same place, > > > and on a few other places. > > > If I enable the wikipedia applet it's also doing the same thing. > > > > Never seen this before. If you are using third party scripts, remove > > them. > > I was, but not anymore. This is why I also said I have this with > the wikipedia applet. This is not normal. It should only refresh on new track. Which phonon engine do you use? gstreamer is problematic. > > > > - The applet selection thing just doesn't make any sense. It also > > > > > > changes things on it's own when the track changes, and you > > > actually can't seem to get it in the same state manually. > > > > I have no idea what you are referring to. > > In the middle at the bottom there are some buttons which you can > use to select which applet you want to see. Pressing on the first > one ussually has as effect that you see that one and the following > one, or maybe all of them. Pressing the second might have as > effect that you only see the 2nd one, or the 2nd and 3rd one. > > You should also try to change the order of them once, it seems to > work magicly, one time it seems to be doing what you want > automaticly, the other time you can try a few times without moving > anything. Applets are not reordered when track changes (here at least). > > > > - It doesn't save changes I made to the layout of the screen. For > > > > > > instance I don not want to sort my album by year, I can't find > > > anything like that, so I need to change that each time after > > > starting it. > > > > Is your ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok or ~/.kde/share/config/amarok* > > non-writable? I don't know how to explain this otherwise. Just start > > fresh. > > No, it's all writeable. > > > > It also has some default width's of the 3 parts of > > > the screens that I don't like. > > > > This hardly qualifies as "serious". > > This is also not the case anymore in the last release. I also > wasn't saying all of those issues are serious. > > > I just suggest starting with a fresh amarok profile. > > I can't try that, but somehow doubt this is going to fix anything > in the long run. Wait for 2.3 which is going to be released this weekend and start fresh. You should have better experience (or I hope so). -- Modestas Vainius <modes...@vainius.eu>
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