Re: possible improvement / wish list!

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 14:55,   wrote:
>
> Hello!
> I only recently migrated to Linux and Amarok so please forgive me if I'm
> overlooking something obvious.
> I love the way that playlist layouts are so flexible but there's a slight
> niggle. I'd love it if I could achieve something like
>              Artist 1
> Album 1      Track 1
>              Track 2
> Album 2      Track 1
>              Track 2
>              Track 3
>
>              Artist 2
>
> instead of having to have the album name repeated if I want it to appear at
> all. "Sub-head" or "first track" category maybe?
> If I'm missing something obvious please let me know!

Did you activate the "grouping by album" in the layout editor? Also,
you should not add the album name in the "body" part of the layout and
set the track name centered. You can do all this with the Layout
editor, hover over the fields once set and you see a wrench: click on
it and you can modify the relative position.

you could try out the predefined layouts," Verbose" for example
doesn't show the album name for every track line. Make a copy of it
and modify the items to your liking


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Re: possible improvement / wish list!

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Steve,

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 04:06,  wrote:
>
> Hello again!
> Thanks for your incredibly quick and detailed reply.
> I've been playing further and reading the Amarok web pages. Sometimes it was 
> good to discover I wasn't the only one to have a particular problem but more 
> often I've discovered interesting features.
> Being new to Linux, when I tried to get to the Amarok Handbook through the 
> Help menu, being told that:
> "Could not launch the KDE Help Centre:
>  Could not find service 'khelpcenter'."
> was less than helpful, though the apparent indecision on the spelling of 
> centre/center was mildly amusing.

Funny, I never was aware of that. It shows how many different people
are working on KDE, since the spelling is different in various parts
of the world. Also one is the user visible name of the application,
the second is the application name itself.

Could it possibly take one directly to a web page - possibly local?

We are still working on the Handbook, but you can have a look at the
Quick Start Guide here:
http://userbase.kde.org/Amarok/QuickStartGuide. It will be part of the
next release.

> So far though I'm impressed with Linux (Ubuntu 10.10 in my case) and Amarok 
> despite its occasional crashes for no discernible reason (getting rarer, also 
> for no discernible reason!  )

Well, Amarok is a quite big application, and it also relies on other
parts of KDE like Phonon, Solid or kdelibs. Most crashes are corner
cases and not always reproducible by the developers, so it's rather
hard to fix.
If you want to be sure to get a valid feedback for the developers you
should also install the debugging packages like amarok-dbg and
phonon-dbg, so next time you get a crash the data will be more useful.

> I still hope to be able to get to the bottom of why I cannot seem to update 
> lyrics, and what the "Album Artist" field in playlists is supposed to do - it 
> appears to always produce a blank space,

You mean editing the Lyrics? There was a bug which didn't save the
edited lyrics on song change so the edited lyrics were lost, which is
already fixed in the next version, to be released early 2011.
As for the 'Album Artist' tag: it is only needed for albums that are
compilations and marked under Various Artists in the Collection
Browser on the left. You can make a playlist layout for that specific
case where you add this field and will see a content.

> but these are small quibbles; having tried a few media players Amarok is 
> easily my favourite - I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Nice to hear :)

> Thanks to your help I've got the playlist looking much more how I wanted as 
> you can see from the attached jpg. The cursor points vaguely at the sort of 
> thing I'd like to be able to avoid - I have 3 Horses Brawl albums and it 
> would be nice if it only told me once that the artist was Horses Brawl. I can 
> see problems though in that my wish only makes sense because the list is 
> primarily ordered by artist. The way it works seem perfectly sensible really.

What you could try to do is set the grouping in the playlist layout to
artist instead of album, but then you will not see the album name
anymore. Not necessarily what you want to achieve I guess.


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Re: [Feedback] Musik wird nicht abgespielt.

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Peter,

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 19:13,   wrote:
> Peter Böhm sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.

Just for your information: This mailing list is in English only, if
you prefer to communicate in German, you should join the German Amarok
forum at this link: http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=119

Find below my answer in English:.
>
> Ubuntu 10.04

Unfortunately you didn't tell if you run KDE or Gnome. If it is Gnome,
you should upgrade as there was a packaging bug which didn't require
the MySQL packages mandatory to run Amarok.

> ich wollte mich jetzt mit amarok auseinander setzen. leider hackt es schon
> beim abspielen der musik.

Amarok 2.3.0 is rather old, you should upgrade to Amarok 2.3.2, see
also http://kubuntu.org/news/amarok-232-backports-ppa.

You probably missed this line in the output:

> amarok:
> **
> amarok:  ** AMAROK WAS STARTED IN NORMAL MODE. IF YOU WANT TO SEE DEBUGGING
> INFORMATION, PLEASE USE: **
> amarok:  ** amarok --debug
>                        **
> amarok:
> **
>pe...@peter-laptop:~$ QVariantMap DBusMenuExporterDBus::GetProperties(int,
>const QStringList&): Condition failed: action
>
>""

To generate a useful debug output you need to run amarok from a
konsole with the argument '-d --nofork' twice: the first time
debugging is enabled, the second time the debug output is collected.

Could you please try again with these parameters

amarok -d --nofork

entered twice and give us the last 100 lines of the output?


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Re: Re: No Music Collection

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:15, Sascha Manns  wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
>
> On Saturday 18 December 2010 00:28:54 Sergey Ivanov wrote:
>> Could you start amarok from console with debug parameter? ($amarok -d
>> --nofork) and rerun collection scan, does It show anything
>> interesting? Are you using embedded or regular mysql library?
> I've pasted the debug Output there: http://susepaste.org/58813376
>
> For me it looks like that amarok misses mysql. But in the past i used
> SQLite. Strange...

Well, Amarok 2.x uses MySQL embedded by default with the option to use
an external MySQL server, it has never used SQLite, that was back in
1.x times.


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Re: Amarok 2.4

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 22:44, Mark Fraser  wrote:
> Running Kubuntu 10.10 with KDE 4.5.5 and I have just upgraded to Amarok 2.4.
> At about 1 minute intervals, Amarok will do a music scan which lasts a few
> seconds.
>
> This never happened with the previous version and I have about 15,000 tracks
> in the collection.

Just disable the option "Watch folders for change" int the settings ->
Configure Amarok -> Collection


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Re: [Feedback] Suggestion about Lyrics Component

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi André,

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:27,   wrote:
> André Luiz Romano Madureira sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> Hello Support Team,
>
> I think that your program is excellent... For real I never have used a
> program like that before... It's even better than the also well known iTunes
> and can't be compared with the Windows Media Player (it's terrible)...

Thank you very much, we are always pleased to hear our users like Amarok :)

> But I
> think that the lyrics component can be better upgraded because it doesn't
> support some signals of punctuation (I don't know if it's written like that
> in English because I'm Brazilian and I don't master it at all) like the ´ or
> ~ or ^ ... So I think this is a enhancement that should be done because not
> only Brazil uses this signals, but also French people, Germans, Italians,
> etc...

You talk about accents and special characters. First of all, you
should make sure you use UTF only for encoding, as ISO encoding is
rather old and obsolete.

Then, our Lyrics applet only displays what it gathers from the
internet, so it also depends on the encoding of the data source, which
currently is LyricWiki: http://lyrics.wikia.com/

You might want to test one of the many available scripts you can
download directly from the ScriptManager: Menu Tools -> Script Manager
-> Button "Get More Scripts" at the bottom right. These scripts use
different sources for lyrics that might be more suitable for you.

> PS: I loved your program a lot... Thanks to people like you the world can be
> better and we can upgrade our software as well as we acquire more knowledge
> to develop more excellent open source programs like the one you have...
> Thanks...

Thank you for your kind feedback :)


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Re: Amarok gone amuck

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi John,

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 00:16, John Mead  wrote:
> Hi Folks  maybe you can help me with my problem. Yesterday I  installed
> Amerok 2.4.. and all went fine, it did a serach, found my library and
> off we went.
>
> This morning, however the whole thing  was pooched. Amarok refuses to
> compile  music or playlists from my music library, if I point it to my
> Music sources,say a CD or my on HD, it will hang, the whole monitor goes
> black and I am into the "sign in" screen.." that you get on boot up,
> howz that for weird.
> I have Ubuntu 10.10  64 bit and 32 bit  versions, Amarok behaves exactly
> the same in both.
> I tried Clementine, works like a charm.
> I have a HD Radeon 4870 GFX card that has HDMI audio on it, but that is
> disabled. ALL other audio and visual applications on this OS work fine,
> thats, Banshee, RhythmBox, Movieplayer, Moovida, Miro,   etc , etc.
>
> The graphic interface also doesn't show any playlists from Magantune as
> you would see in Clementine or RhythmBox, I have been doing a "debug
> sequence"..here is a copy of it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers, JRM
>
>
> amarok:     [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform escape() on
> uninitialized MySQL
> amarok:     [ERROR__] Tried to query an uninitialized m_db!
> amarok:     [ERROR__] Tried to query an uninitialized m_db!
> amarok:     [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform escape() on
> uninitialized MySQL

As you can see from this line your MySQL database is not starting.
This can be related to MySQL updates (e.g. the 5.5.8 version causes
problems and needs to be patched by the distributions). Do you use an
internal MySQLe (which is default) or did you configure an external
database server? Please check your settings and permissions there.


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Re: flacs "skipped"

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Thomas,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 15:36, Thomas Klausner  wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:49:55PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>> When trying to open the Phonon Control Panel, amarok just hangs and
>> the panel never opens. Not good.
>
> Ok, it just took a VERY long time.
> I see two devices, "OSS default output" and "sun".
> Mouseover for the first:
> The Platform Plugin failed. This is a fallback device to use the first
> OSS device available.

That sounds like a problem with Phonon, not with Amarok. Could you
please ask in #phonon on irc.frenode.net or on the
kde-multime...@kde.org and phonon-backe...@kde.org mailing lists?
Amarok doesnt handle sound itself but delegates it to Phonon

> For the second:
> xine audio output plugin using sun-compliant audio devices/drivers

Yep, this confirms my affirmation above: it is a Phonon problem. I am
sure the Phonon people are the ones who can help you best.


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Re: utilisation amarok.

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Bonjour Luc,

2011/2/21 luc kaniki 
>
> bonjour la communauté amarok, je viens de télécharger le lecteur amarok, il 
> lit que les fichiers au format ogg et wav, j'aimerai savoir si il offre aussi 
> la possibilité ( comment le configurer) de lire d'autres formats audios tels 
> que : mp3, wma, et autres. Merci de votre attention.

Cette liste est normalement en Anglais, mais vue que je parle le Français .. :)

Il te faut installer les codec pour lire des fichiers de type mp3, wma
etc. car il s'agit de formats soit propriétaires, soit sous une
patente ce qui le rend impossible aux distributions Linux de les
fournir par défaut. Ils se trouvent néanmoins dans les répertoires de
paquets et il te faut demander à ta distribution quels fichiers tu
dois installer, les noms n'étant pas les mêmes d'une distribution à
l'autre. Vue que tu n'est pas bavard quand à la version d'Amarok ou de
ta distribution Linux, je ne peux te donner une meilleure réponse.


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Re: "Various Artist" broken in Albums applet

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:24, Daniel Faust  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just working on that, too.
>
> There are some other issues with the albums applet I still need to have a look
> at. But I don't have much time at the moment.
>
> This patch shows compilations again.

Could you please submit it to http://git.reviewboard.kde.org. Beware,
the http://identity.kde.org server will be under maintainance tomorrow
Saturday from 7:30 to 16:00 due to power supply changes in the server
center. Those already logged in identity should not experience any
problems though.

And as already mentioned by Mark, the amarok-de...@kde.org is the
place for technical discussions, amarok@kde.org is a more general list
mainly for users.


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Re: Amarok and PulseAudio

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Anne and sorry for the late reply,

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:39, Anne Wilson  wrote:
> What is the current status of Amarok with regard to PulseAudio?
>
> Twice I have persuaded PA to work with my new USB 5.1 system.  Each time
> Amarok has played two tracks, then part-way through the third one it has
> crashed taking PA with it.

Could you please make a bug report? We would need a backtrace to
analyse what is happening.

> Is there some configuration that I need to change?  Any other hints?

You can try changing the Phonon backend you are using, by now the vlc
backend and the gstreamer backend should work better than the xine
backend.

In any case, a crash with PulseAudio is more related to Phonon than to
Amarok, as Amarok is only using the underlying structure.


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Re: Where to report Windows bugs?

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Dave and sorry for the late reply,

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:07, Dave Thacker  wrote:
> I see on the website that I should not report Windows bugs in official 
> channels.
> Is there an appropriate place to send crash details?

I don't know who told you that, but anyway, bugs should always be
reported to the bugtracker in http://bugs.kde.org, not in the forums.
You can then talk to the developers in #amarok on irc.freenode.net,
giving the link to the bug report.


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Re: Is this list same as amarok-devel?

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 17:43, Arvind S Raj  wrote:
> Hello,
> I came across a post in the
> archives-http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2011-March/032601.html, which
> asks the person to contact amarok-devel mailing list for development related
> ideas. But, when I mail the devel list, I get a mail that the devel list has
> moved to this list. So, where am I supposed to direct development related
> queries of amarok?

This seems strange to me. Keep in mind that amarok-devel@ is for
developers only, as well as volunteers for the GSoC and KDE Season of
Code ideas and the discussions are really of a purely technical
nature. If you need support or just want to make feature requests it
is indeed the amarok@ list you need to address. But those list have
certainly not merged.


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Re: Auto-response for your message to the "Amarok-devel" mailing list

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:05, Arvind S Raj  wrote:
> Myriam,
> I got this message. And ultimately, it got delivered I guess-got a reply
> from Lukas to that mail.
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: 
> Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:08 PM
> Subject: Auto-response for your message to the "Amarok-devel" mailing list
> To: sraj.arv...@gmail.com
>
>
> This mailing list was moved to a new address: amarok@kde.org

Because the address amarok-de...@lists.sourceforge.net is obsolete
since many years already, the correct address is amarok-de...@kde.org

It is interesting to know where you found that old address, though, so
we can correct an eventual misleading link.


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Re: Amarok 2.4 Compilation id3 tag

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Mark,

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 14:08, Mark Fraser  wrote:
> If I edit one track from a compilation album with various artists, why does
> Amarok decide to add the id3 tag Compilation false to that track?
>
> If I later do a full rescan, Amarok then thinks that it isn't part of the
> album and puts it under the Artist.

Could you please make a bug report at
https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=amarok for the component
"Tag Dialog"


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Re: Amarok boot halt dump

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Tomasz,

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:35, Tomasz  wrote:
> I've a problem with my amarok. Doesn't boot. Just stops right after boot
> screen. I'm using a default version provided with Kubuntu 10.10 x64,
> updated & upgraded to the latest.

Sadly you didn't provide the version number and whether you use the
backports PPA or not.

But the error is in line 518 of your output. Please delete this file:

$HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok/current.xspf

it is a corrupt playlist that doesn't allow you to start Amarok

Hope this helps.


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Re: Amarok boot halt dump

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:01, Tomasz  wrote:
> Qt: 4.7.0
> KDE: 4.5.1 (KDE 4.5.1)
> Amarok: 2.4.0
>
> I've already tried deleting config files. No effect. The file you've
> mentioned is already deleted, amarok still doesn't boot.
>
> I'm not using the backports PPA.

Thank you for the information, but please do not top-post, it makes
the thread hard to read.

It looks like a dynamic playlist gone wrong, please also delete this file:

$HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok/dynamic.xml

it can't be read so erasing it might help.

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Re: Amarok boot halt dump

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:29, Tomasz  wrote:
...
>>
> Deleted all .xml
> Problem remains, amarok launches, and after splash where I should see the
> main window it's frame appears and that's all - I have to kill amarok to
> resume.

When did this problem appear, after an upgrade? Also, do you use the
standard KDE theme or did you change it?

Since you erased both current.xspf amd the ".xml files, could you
please provide a new debug output with 'Amarok -d --nofork'


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Re: Amarok boot halt dump

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:48, Tomasz  wrote:
> On 26.04.2011 11:38, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
...
>> When did this problem appear, after an upgrade? Also, do you use the
>> standard KDE theme or did you change it?
>>
...
>
> http://paste.kde.org/33457/
>
> The problem appeared after upgrade. (standard issue, apt-get update/upgrade)

You didn't tell which KDE theme you use.

Please also don't forget to reply to all, as this thread started in
the Amarok@ mailing list, you should not send replies to me personally
only :)


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Re: A few Issues in Amarok 2.4.0 , using KDE 4.5.5

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Ganesh and sorry for the late reply.

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:47, Ganesh Raghavan  wrote:
> Hi!
> I have been using Amarok for over a year and a half, and its been a great
> experience, thanks!
> i liked the version just prior to the present one (2.4.0).
> I just updated to 2.4.0 a few days earlier, and there are some issues that
> i'd like to point out.
> 1) Any Song stops a few seconds earlier when an empty playlist is
> encountered.
> The Song is played completely otherwise.
> The situation is the same when the song played is the last in the playlist,
> or if a song is already being played and if you clear the playlist.

Which phonon backend are you using? You can change the phonon backend
and restart Amarok to see if that helps. Don't forget to install the
mp3 codecs for the backend you choose.

> 2) Amarok seems to be scanning my media collection every few minutes for
> changes. This was not the same previously.

That is not a bug, but on purpose. Just disable the "Watch folders for
change" option in the collection settings and do the updates manually
from the menu when you add files to the collection.

> 3) The place where amarok displayes Information on the file, earlier there
> used to be slight glossy buttons that would display the song, last played
> info, score and so on.., and i could click on it to play it directly. It was
> great!..now there is just a list that mentions the last played songs, but i
> cant even click them to play directly...:(

Hm, I don't really remember the previous versions that well, but the
"Now playing applet" is not really meant to search for last played
tracks, that is something you can do with the collection browser
filter.

We usually do not support to roll back to previous versions, as it can
break quite easily, but you should upgrade to Amarok 2.4.1 which came
out this week and brings a lot of bugfixes.


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Re: Hello! & Problematic Includes to Collection

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Hi and sorry for the late reply,

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 00:44, Freeman  wrote:
> I am very pleased to be running Amarok. I haven't discovered all of the
> features and their nuances yet but I am mostly moved into it and delighted.
>
> Debian Squeeze v6.01
> Gnome2 v2.3 / Openbox v3.4
> Linux 2.6.32
> Dell Inspiron laptop
> 2 GHz Turion 64X2
> 2 Gig RAM.

Could you please also specify which Amarok and KDE version you have?
Amarok depends on kdelibs, so both versions are important.


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Re: Hello! & Problematic Includes to Collection

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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 04:03, Freeman  wrote:
>
>>Hi and sorry for the late reply,
>>
>>On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 00:44, Freeman >> wrote:
>>>/ I am very pleased to be running Amarok. I haven't discovered all of the
>>/>/ features and their nuances yet but I am mostly moved into it and 
>>delighted.
>>/>/
>>/>/ Debian Squeeze v6.01
>>/>/ Gnome2 v2.3 / Openbox v3.4
>>/>/ Linux 2.6.32
>>/>/ Dell Inspiron laptop
>>/>/ 2 GHz Turion 64X2
>>/>/ 2 Gig RAM.
>>/
>>Could you please also specify which Amarok and KDE version you have?
>>Amarok depends on kdelibs, so both versions are important.
>>
>
> Hello again and sorry for *my* late reply. Lost the email somehow.
>
> Since posting, I made the point upgrade to 2.4.1. I recently tested dropping
> a folder with music files into my music directory running "update
> collection" from the menu without problems.  Of course, previous issues were
> only a very small percentage of tries.

Thank you for the information.

What can cause problems are id tags that are specific to iTunes and/or
Musicbrainz. Amarok only uses the id3 specification, so you should
check if you have specific tags for iTunes and/or Musicbrainz. Another
potential issue could be DRM for files from earlier iTunes downloads.

You can use any advanced tagging software like kid3 or puddletag to
edit those or just use eyed3 on the command line. Hope this helps.


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Re: clearing amarok's playlist from the command line

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On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 21:01, Travis Deshotels  wrote:
> I was wondering how I can clear amarok's playlist from the command line. I
> found nothing useful from searching.

Did you run 'amarok --help' on the command line? the option -l or
--load loads the given URL into the playlist and replaces the current
one.


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Re: Cover art problem (amarok)

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Marten and sorry for the late reply,


On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:09, marten lijnema  wrote:
> Dear amarok,
>
> i just installed Kubuntu today to try KDE. I am really enjoying it but i
> got 1 problem. Amarok doesn't seem to find any album covers. even though
> i ticked the box "automatically retrieve cover art" he still refuses.
> another strange thing: the "cover manager" is completely empty.
> I update amarok and it still refuses to work.
> that's my only problem, amarok plays music fine and it doesn't crash or
> something.
> Can you recognise this problem? if so, what do I need to do?

Well, you sadly didn't specify which version of Amarok you use. I
can't reproduce this with Amarok 2.4.1 which is the current release.


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Re: Amarok crash - Debian wheezy

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi AG,

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 17:07, AG  wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Any help in debuging this catastrophe with Amarok?
>
> $ amarok(24118)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size
> QSizeF(0, 0)
> amarok(24118)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size
> QSizeF(0, 0)
> amarok(24118)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size
> QSizeF(0, 0)
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Playlist dock/Playlist::Dock) Negative sizes
> (0,-1) are not possible
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Playlist dock/Playlist::Dock) Negative sizes
> (139,-1) are not possible
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Playlist dock/Playlist::Dock) Negative sizes
> (139,-1) are not possible
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Playlist dock/Playlist::Dock) Negative sizes
> (139,-1) are not possible
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Playlist dock/Playlist::Dock) Negative sizes
> (139,-1) are not possible
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Playlist dock/Playlist::Dock) Negative sizes
> (323,-1) are not possible
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Context dock/ContextDock) Negative sizes
> (0,-1) are not possible
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Playlist dock/Playlist::Dock) Negative sizes
> (323,-1) are not possible
> QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 43 and type 'Read', disabling...
> KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing...
> KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
> sock_file=/home/andy/.kde/socket-valhalla/kdeinit4__0

Please file a bug report and provide a backtrace in
http://bugs.kde.org, the above information is not sufficient to
successfully solve the problem, and this mailing list is not the
correct media to solve bugs.

Also please do not forget to specify the exact Amarok version and give
steps on how to reproduce this crash.


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Re: 4.0 surround playback capabities

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Hi Joel,

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 17:52, Joel Goodwin  wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>   I have a capture device streaming 4 channels of live nature surround audio
> Vorbis/Ogg at 128kbps to a streaming server.  I am trying to identify a
> Linux stream player that will support and play this 4 channel audio only
> stream.  I can get Windows Media Player to play the 4 channel Vorbis/Ogg
> stream.  Can Amarok playback 4.0 or 5.1 surround?  If so, what do I need to
> do to make it happen?

Amarok uses Phonon for the sound output, so this is more likely a
question you should address the kde-multime...@kde.org mailing list,
as it depends not only on Phonon but also on the backend and wether or
not you use Pulseaudio.

I subscribed the above-mentioned mailing list to my reply so you don't
have to re-write something.

Please all: include Joel in Cc as he is most likely not subscribed to
either mailing list


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Re: amarok issues

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi András,

Before answering any of your questions: could you please specify which
Amarok version, which platform and KDE version you are using? It's a
bit hard to give support if the basic elements are missing,

Regards, Myriam.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 13:44, András Csányi  wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is my first letter to this list. I cant say that I'm a big Amarok
> user. I like the services of the Amarok, especially the lyrics part.
> I have few issues and I would like to get some advises, suggestions.
>
> First issue:
> I have a directory (300G) filled with music (~22.000 files) and it's
> growing. I set up this directory in Amarok as collection directory and
> I set up mysql database connection as well. This directory have
> already scanned few times by Amarok but the database is empty. Strange
> the database is already created by amarok but isn't populated. What
> should I do to achieve a populated and managed database by Amarok?
>
> Second issue:
> This directory is added to the playlist. I accepted that to adding to
> the playlist it took almost 10 minutes but hard to accept that every
> start of Amarok takes almost 10 minutes. As I saw at every start this
> directory is scanned. Why? This directory already managed by Amarok.
>
> My questions:
> - What is the advantages set up collection directory? To adding music
> to playlist is faster or Amarok starts faster?
> - What is the advantages of using mysql to store the collection data?
>
> Thanks for the answers in advance!
>
> András
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Re: Amarok keeps crashing

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 16:33, Jan Tománek  wrote:
> Hello Amarok team,
>
> I am sending you a bug report (I am too lazy to register anywhere and Dr.
> Konqi didn't start, so don't blame me). Amarok crashes me a lot, in this
> ceas it crashed after finishing a song. It also often crashes when I
> edit/remove/blacklist/add tags.
>
> I use OpenSuse 11.4 x86_64, Amarok 2.4.1-3.9.

Sorry, but the information you sent is not useful. For crashes we need
a backtrace, see also here on how to get a proper backtrace:

http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports

And to be able to track a crash report correctly, it needs to be
submitted to http://bugs.kde.org, else we can't trace it. The mailing
list is not the correct place.


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Re: Amarok keeps crashing

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Jan,

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:09, Jan Tománek  wrote:
> I uninstalled PulseAudio, stil having these bugs. This command "gdb --args
...
>
> I also wanted to ask - which Phonon backend is the best to use? VLC, Xine or
> Gstreamer? I use KDE, so I also use XIne, but I don't know which is "the
> best" for Amarok.

The currently recommended backends are both the gstreamer and the vlc
backend as those are under development and quite well maintained. The
xine backend is deprecated as upstream development at the xine project
has stalled. See also
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-multimedia&m=130721162310817&w=2

@Daniel: the phonon gstreamer backend supports the equalizer in
Amarok, the xine backend doesn't and never did did AFAIK.


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Re: Tags are being completely screwed up in Amarok 2.4.0

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi AG

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 20:05, AG  wrote:
> Hey
>
> Everytime I add an artist's album file to Amarok 2.4.0 on Debian stable,
> the file names are all screwed up, referring to tags for other albums I
> have on file.

Since you didn't specify otherwise I assume you use Amarok as is,
without any other presets, dynamic collections, APG or other activated
or any 3rd-party scripts running.
>
> For example, playing the band Polar Bear's album "Dim Lit", the tags for
> song and album identification that are given are for Procol Harum's
> "Salty Dog" (which I also have). How does this happen? It is happening
> for pretty much each and every time I open up a new file to play on
> Amarok and it is really a major bummer.
>
>
> How do I fix this nonsense?

Try a full collection rescan: you will find that option in the Menu
Settings -> Configure Amarok -> Collection. The restart Amarok.


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Re: Playing

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 19:47, Kind Philosopher BENIGNU
 wrote:
> I use fedora 15, and a have amarok installed, bu when i put an mp3 track, it 
> finish him in lass one second, but another player work normaly. Pleasa assist

You need to install the code cs for mp3, please check with your
distribution which packages you need.


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Re: [Feedback] Compiling Problem under slackware linux 13.37 x64

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Hi Oleg,

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 22:59,   wrote:
> Oleg sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
...

> [ 63%] Building CXX object
> src/core-impl/collections/db/sql/mysqlecollection/CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-mysqlecollection.dir/MySqlEmbeddedStorage.o
> Linking CXX shared module
> ../../../../../../lib/amarok_collection-mysqlecollection.so
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/4.5.2/../../../../x86_64-slackware-linux/bin/ld:
> cannot find -lmysqld

The last line above says it: you either don't have the necessary
dependency or it can't be found on your system where it should be.

Hope this helps.


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Re: Question about mp3 Album art Lookup.

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi there,

Cc-ing Rick as he is the cover expert. Please correct me if I am wrong.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 07:20, Me Myself and I
 wrote:
> Is there a way, either per mp3 or generically, to prevent Amarok from even
> trying to look up
> the album art cover image for my purchased mp3s? I wish to stop certain ones
> from appearing in the play list area?

If the tracks have already an image associated to they will not be
changed anymore, provided the image is locally stored, ideally in the
same folder as the track are. Amarok looks by default for either
image.* or cover.* where * can be png or jpg IIRC.
>
>
> Is there a way to specify any image file one could want per mp3, on the
> playlist area?

The playlist only shows what the database and id3 tags of a file hold
but you can of course also set covers there (in the Album submenu of
the context menu) and/or edit track details.


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Re: 2.4.3 dynamic playlists

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Steven,

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 05:37, steven robinson  wrote:
> I am having trouble creating dynamic playlists in 2.4.3 that behave like the
> previous version.
> Specifically, I would set it up to do say 60% rock and 40% blues or 0% punk
> and 0% metal.
> Is this still possible with 2.4.3? It was exceedingly easy to do on previous
> versions and was easily my favourite thing about Amarok 2. If it is still
> possible could you point me at some documentation that explains how?

Please have a look at the Amarok Manual page here:

http://userbase.kde.org/Amarok/Manual/Playlist/DynamicPlaylists#Dynamic_Playlists

Hope this helps :)


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Re: Amarok 2.4.3 Quirkiness or is it Just Me?

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On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 17:14, Brian Blater  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.


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Re: Amarok 2.4.3 Quirkiness or is it Just Me?

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 18:07, Brian Blater  wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Brian Blater  wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Myriam Schweingruber  wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 17:14, Brian Blater  wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> I am not behind a proxy and the internet is working fine. I am able to
>> access http://en.wikipedia.org just fine from my machine.
>>
>> What other troubleshooting can be done to find where the connections
>> are failing then?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>
> In doing some testing I ran amarok in debug mode. I then went to see
> what was reported when opening a track. I got the following:
>
> amarok: [CoverFetcher] "Adding interactive cover fetch for: 'Enema of
> the State' from Google"
> amarok: BEGIN: CoverFoundDialog::CoverFoundDialog(CoverFetchUnit::Ptr,
> const CoverFetch::Metadata&, QWidget*)
> amarok:   [CoverFetcher] Queueing automatic cover fetch for: "Enema of
> the State"
> QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap
> QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap
> amarok: END__: CoverFoundDialog::CoverFoundDialog(CoverFetchUnit::Ptr,
> const CoverFetch::Metadata&, QWidget*) [Took: 0.059s]
> amarok: [CoverFetcher] "Queueing cover fetch query: 'Enema of the
> State Blink 182' (page 0)"
> amarok: [CoverFetcher] Finished with errors for album "Enema of the
> State" "[There was an error communicating with cover provider:
> http://ws.audioscrobbler.com]";
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Media Sources dock/BrowserDock) Negative
> sizes (117,-1) are not possible
> amarok: [CoverFetcher] Finished with errors for album "Enema of the
> State" "[There was an error communicating with cover provider:
> http://images.google.com]";
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Media Sources dock/BrowserDock) Negative
> sizes (117,-1) are not possible
>
> Yet on the same machine I can browse to http://ws.audioscrobbler.com
> (redirects to last.fm/api) and http://images.google.com
>
> So, this appears more than just "something must be wrong with my
> internet connection" as I can get to the web page that it is
> attempting to get to.
>
> Any suggestions as to what might fix this?

Instead of running Amarok from a user PPA, how about using the version
from the official Kubuntu backports-PPA? See also
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/amarok-243-berlin-released

It might be a problem with the package you are using.


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Re: No sound, but Phonon plays test sounds

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Stefano,

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 15:01, stefano franchi  wrote:
> After the last update to my Arch system, Amarok has stopped producing any 
> sound.
>
> More precisely:
>
> If I click on a song, Amarok "plays" it: it updates the current song
> widget, the progress bar advances, etc.. However, no sound is
> produced.
>
> I checked the playback settings, Phonon settings, and everything is
> fine. Phonon's devices play  the test sound correctly
>
> Other applications play sounds correctly as well.
>
> Where could the problem be?
>
> System details:
>
> Arch 64 system, Kde 4.7.3, Amarok 2.4.3
>
> Phonon with gstreamer backend

Please make sure you have the gstreamer codecs installed as well.


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Re: No sound, but Phonon plays test sounds

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 22:15, stefano franchi  wrote:
> Well,
>
> I solved the problem reinstalling xine, even though it seems to be
> officially deprecated.

How about using the phonon-backend-vlc instead then?

> But how do I know if I have the gstreamer
> codecs installed? Here are all the gstreamer packages on my system:
>
>
> local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.35-1
...
Apparently everything needed is there. Comparing to the packages
installed here on my Kubuntu system, I also have

gstreamer0.10-alsa
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio

Especially the ffmpeg and/or fluendo-mp3 packages are needed, but I
don't know if those are also split up in Arch.


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Amarok 2.5 beta 1 released - please test!

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Hi all,

we are pleased to announce the release of Amarok 2.5 beta 1:

http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.5/beta/1

Please test extensively[1] and help us making the next Amarok version rock :)

A testing list can be found here:
[1] http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/Testing


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Re: [Feedback] Amarok not working

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Hi Reinaldo,


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 18:37,   wrote:
> Reinaldo Zapata sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
>  I really like this application to manage my music. Few days ago Amarok
> didn't work any more and I already tried all the solutions shown in the web.
> Also I unistalled and installed again (to the last version) and still the
> aplication didn't work.
>
>  I installed the debug symbols and tried to use them but I wasn't able to
> use then in the right way. In the following lines I pasted the report that
> apears every time I start Amarok.

Well, apparently you don't have the debugging symbols for Amarok
installed as the backtrace indicates. What distribution do you use?
Depending on the distribution the package is called amarok-dbg or
amarok-debug, in Gentoo you need to install Amarok with the debug
flag, see also 
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports
>
>  Thanks!
> -
> Application: Amarok (amarok), signal: Segmentation fault
> [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0xb64bd720 (LWP 16221))]


> Thread 1 (Thread 0xb64bd720 (LWP 16221)):
> [KCrash Handler]
> #7  0x00e8a37f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libamaroklib.so.1
> #8  0x00e8a5a1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libamaroklib.so.1
> #9  0x00e8736b in
> Context::ContextView::addCollapseAnimation(QAbstractAnimation*) () from
> /usr/lib/libamaroklib.so.1

But you are lucky, this is a known bug so no need to paste another
backtrace. While the bug is solved already in the upcoming Amarok 2.5,
to be released next week, you can workaround the problem by erasing
the amarok* files located in $HOME/.kde/share/config/ (depending on
the distribution this might be in $HOME/.kde4/share/config/


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Re: Amarok, 4.4.5;

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Jeffrey,

What on earth are you referring to? What mail are you answering to? I can't
find that anywhere in the mailing list

Regards, Myriam

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 17:40, Jeffrey David Morris <
jeffreydavidmor...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> . . . uh, so what am I suppose to do (now)? That I have my music in
> it's library, and amajority of my music file's are: .mp3 file
> extention; change the file extension end unto .wav or misc? Are ya
> kidding me techie's? Come on . . .
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Re: Amarok, 4.4.5;

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On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 02:58, Jeffrey David Morris <
jeffreydavidmor...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was referring to Amarok not allowing mp3 file extension's. Again:
>

And as Jakob says: you probably just don't have the mp3 codecs installed.
But since you didn't give any further information about either your
Linux distribution, the Amarok version or the Phonon backend in use we
can't really help you.
How about being a bit more polite and rational and give us the necessary
information so we can actually answer you? Your mail appears to be an
answer to an extremely old mail that is not even in my archives which span
back several years, so it is quite difficult to answer you if you can't get
your senses together and give enough information.

Also could you please disable HTML when writing to a mailing list? Thank
you.

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Re: Amarok not taking account of m4a files when creating playlist files.

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On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 09:53, Joerg Mertin  wrote:
> Hia folks,
>
> sorry, I'm no list member. However as I did read I can psot to this list
> even if not member, I take my chances.
>
> Since I have installed Amarok 2.5 2 days ago, my playlists, I usually
> convert using a python script from the iTunes Library.xml file, won't
> display any m4a files when selected.
> All existing mp3 files that are in the m3u-playlist will show up, but
> Amarok will constantly remove all m4a files from the files it will display.
>
> When I then go to some of the files on the Disk, I can play m4a files
> without a problem. That works. I also displays these files etc.

Which Phonon backend are you currently using?
>
>
> BTW - when I start Amarok, it first take 10 Minutes to put the CPU/Disk
> at full load. I really have to wait. On the older version (as provided
> by KUbuntu 11.10), I could go to "tools/update collection" to make that
> load go away ...

Do you have a loaded playlist with streams in it? That could be the
reason for such a delay.
But the CPU going up to 100% is an issue we can't reproduce here on
the developer machines, so this is quite difficult to solve. Which KDE
version do you use?

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Re: Amarok, 4.4.5;

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Jeffrrey,


On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 00:23, Jeffrey David Morris <
jeffreydavidmor...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> . . . uh, I DID. IT IS< as I emailed you: Please install the following
> packages: ubuntu-restricted-extras and kubuntu-restricted-extras.
>
> And AGAIN, I ask: WHERE are they, ie: instruction's, misc, what do I do,
> as I'm a newbie: Linux - Ubuntu - Gnome.
>

Did you even try to click on the Gnome Menu bar? Apparently not...

Please go to the upper panel and select the Gnome menu. The Ubuntu Software
Center is normally the last entry in the Applications section.

There you search for the package with exactly this name:
ubuntu-restricted-extras

It will ask you to enter your password (if you are the only user on this
computer) so you can actually install the package.

Then restart Amarok and it should be able to play mp3

Since you are a new user I strongly suggest you get yourself acquainted
with Ubuntu by checking out the ubuntu-manual: http://ubuntu-manual.org/

You can download it with the button on that website.

Regards, Myriam

>
> AND text saying: (due to patent reason's) . . . Uh, yeah, ok, whatever.
>
> Text says: Please install the following packages: ubuntu-restricted-extras
> and kubuntu-restricted-extras.
>
> . . . so yeah: WHERE are they, ie: instruction's, misc, what do I do??? Or
> is it that companies, etc just wanna come out with (?), put stuff out,
> misc, but either fall short, etc? Ugh, whatever . . .
>
> --- On *Wed, 12/28/11, Myriam Schweingruber * wrote:
>
>
> From: Myriam Schweingruber 
> Subject: Re: Amarok, 4.4.5;
> To: jeffreydavidmor...@yahoo.com
> Date: Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 9:02 AM
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 01:53, Jeffrey David Morris <
> jeffreydavidmor...@yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=jeffreydavidmor...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
> . . . uh, ok dear, re: Please install the following packages:
> ubuntu-restricted-extras and kubuntu-restricted-extras. WHERE are they, ie:
> instruction's, misc, what do I do, as I'm a newbie. And (due to patent
> reason's)? Uh, ok, seems like ill excuse's, but ok, whatever, but anyway,
> still: re: Please install the following packages: ubuntu-restricted-extras
> and kubuntu-restricted-extras. WHERE are they, ie: instruction's, misc,
> what do I do, as I'm a newbie.
>
>
> In the Ubuntu software center, have a look at the menu.
>
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Re: Pause restarts track

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:13, Thomas Tanghus  wrote:
> I don't know when this behaviour started, but whenever I try to pause a track
> it starts from the beginning of the track instead.
>
> - GStreamer backend v. 4.5.1
> - Amarok v. 2.5.0
> - KDE 4.8
>
> Known behaviour or should I (really...) investigate further?

Please try the Phonon-backend-vlc instead, this might be related to
the gstreamer backend.

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Re: Pause restarts track

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:13, Thomas Tanghus  wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 February 2012 11:37 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:13, Thomas Tanghus  wrote:
...
>> Please try the Phonon-backend-vlc instead, this might be related to
>> the gstreamer backend.
>
> Thanks. Will do, though I thought that was deprecated?

Not at all, it's the Xine backend which is deprecated :)
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Re: Amarok Icon

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 18:18, Ken Vermette  wrote:
> I know you guys aren't looking for an icon to replace the existing
> crystal-style icon, but I've prepared an oxygen style icon because the
> existing Amarok icon doesn't match the general style of the Oxygen icon set.

Are you aware that that icon is actually part of the logo and
trademark of Amarok? It was never intended to be changed in any icon
set.

While your logo looks very nice I still think it is not suitable for
Amarok as it suggest that Amarok is a CD player which is only a small
subset of the Amarok functions.

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Re: nepomuk

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi James

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 23:37, James Lloyd  wrote:
> recently I installed amarok to my computer and loved it. however when i
> uninstalled it (im built an htpc and i didnt need it on my main pc any more)
> i noticed it left something behind- nepomuk. i uninstalled everything
> related in software center but i can not for the life of me get it off my
> menu. its very annoying please help os is linux mint

Nepomuk is a dependency of KDE, not of Amarok, so unless you remove
all of KDE you should not remove Nepomuk as it is needed for the
semantic desktop applications.

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Re: Weird layout of local collection in 2.4.x

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Hi Jörg,

first of all, sorry for the lat answer.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Jörg Schaible  wrote:
> Hello,
...
> However, I have suddenly albums in the various artists that have not been
> there with Amarok 2.3.2. As it turns out, the titles of all albums with same
> name are now grouped together although the tags for interpret and album
> interpret are set correctly. E.g. I have suddenly an album "Up" in the
> various artists where the titles of the albums with this name of Peter
> Gabriel, R.E.M. and Shania Twain are mixed up (sorted alphabetically by
> track number and name). This prevents completely the selection of the
> individual album for the playlist. I have quite some of this annoying
> clashes (albums with name "Time", "Eden", "Zeitgeist", "Harpe Celtique",
> "Elemental", "Simply the best", "Hysteria", "Solo").
>
> Another bunch of "new" albums for the various artists appear. All those are
> affected where the interpret is the same for all titles of the album, the
> album interpret is empty, but the composer may vary.
>
> A manual run of the amarokcollectionscanner proofs that the tag info was
> properly read. Is there anything else I can do?
>

The Album Artist tag is needed to distinguish albums with one Artist
only (set in the Album Artist tag) or various artists (album artist
tag empty).

There were some glitches with that in earlier versions but it should
work correctly now in Amarok 2.5, I suggest you upgrade as 2.5 is out
since almost 6 months now.

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Re: No sound anymore, fedora 15

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Carine,

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Carine Simon  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since recently, I was using Amarok regularly and with pleasure but now, the
> sound does not work any more. I am on Fedora 15 64 bits, kernel 2.6.42.7,
> and Amarok 1.4.1.

Amarok 1.4.1 is extremely old (it was released in July 2006!) and
totally outdated, I assume you mean 2.4.1? The current version is
Amarok 2.5.0. I strongly suggest you upgrade your version to the
latest available in Fedora.

Since Amarok doesn't handle sound itself but lets Phonon do that you
should check your underlying sound configuration, mainly Pulseaudio
which IIRC is the default installation on Fedora. Also please make
sure you use a recent phonon backend, either the
phonon-backend-gstreamer (4.6.0 is the latest version) or the
phonon-backend-vlc (current is 0.5.0 ). All other backends are
currently unmaintained and obsolete.

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Re: No sound anymore, fedora 15

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Hi Carine,

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Carine Simon  wrote:
> Hi Myriam,
>
> Thanks for your answer. Effectively, I made an error, the amarok version
> I've got is the 2.4.3. It seems that the 2.5 is not supported for Fedora 15.
> I have added the phonon-backend-streamer and the music worked but the url
> didn't. So I have finally decided to upgrade my computer to Fedora 16 and it
> seems to work.

Nice to hear that it works for you now, thank you for the feedback.

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Re: Error found after update

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Hi,


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Barayuda Gautama  wrote:
> Hello Amarok Team,
> I'm one of your amarok software fans. I want give a feedback for this
> update.
> I using opensuse 12.1 and a while ago i was update amarok to version
> 2.5.0-155
> And, also many software update too.
>

The problem is a packaging mistake by the Opensuse people, you can
find the bug report here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712749

There is not much we can do from the Amarok side, please check out
that bug report to get notified when the fix is available.

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Re: External database trouble

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Hi René,

Sorry, this post seems to have been forgotten. While I don't know the
answer to your question I hope this puts it up to visibility in the
list :)

Regards, Myriam.

PS. If you do not get an answer through the mailing list, please have
a look at the forum at http://forum.kde.org/amarok

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM, René Lange  wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> this is my first posting to the amarok mailing list. I have set up an
> external database for my desktop computer at home, and so far this setup
> works well.
>
> I'd like to share the external database with a second desktop computer. I
> succeeded in pointing Amarok on this computer to the external database, and
> I made sure the music files are mounted in the exact same path on both
> desktop machines, as well as I made sure that I checked the same boxes in
> the collection settings dialog.
>
> The problem I end up having is that though the collection displays the
> correct number of albums and genres, it displays a wrong number of tracks,
> namely zero.
>
> I'd be grateful for hints on how to troubleshoot that kind of problem.
>
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Re: Where should I submit ideas about Amarok 4

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Hi Dédé,

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Dede Lapub
 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a little disapointed by the responses to my message on forum.kde.org.
> Can someone tell me where I can post this message
> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=113&t=102610&p=224133#p224133 for it to
> be read by some of the project management team?

The forum is the right place, just be a tad patient, you only just
asked the questions and there currently is a longer holiday weekend in
most over Europe.

For the record: you started the thread in the wrong forum part, then
you had your first post at 13:52 UTC+2, which is barely 7 hours from
now. Patience :)

FWIW: there is no such thing as Amarok 3 or Amarok 4. The current
Amarok version is 2.5.0, release in December 2011 and we are currently
working on the 2.6 release, scheduled later this month.

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Re: [Feedback] Amarok crashes

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Hi Bob,

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:38 PM,   wrote:
> Bob Gamage sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> Ubuntu 12.04/Amarok2.5.0.
> No audio output at all and crashes when live switching from one song on
> playlist to another.
> Amarok PID: 2004 (or 2058) Signal:Segmentation fault (11)
> Audio output works in Audacity
> Worked OK before upgrade to 12.04
> Bug report won't install "debugging symbol packages" either

Please install the package called 'amarok-dbg' as well as 'phonon-dbg'
and 'phonon-backend-gstreamer-dbg'. You should also make sure you have
the necessary plugins installed for gstreamer.

Then please remove the file $HOME/.kde/share/config/amarokrc and try
to start amarok again. Make sure you do not activate the animation in
the Amarok settings, there is a bug in Amarok 2.5 causing this to work
correctly, solved in the upcoming Amarok 2.6

Once you have all these packages and made the modifications above and
it still crashes, please make a regular bug report to
http://bugs.kde.org, this is not really something that belongs to the
mailing list.

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Re: [Feedback] soy diseñador grafico

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Olà,

2012/6/30  :
> opencrisc sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> hola vi que estaban buscando diseñador grafico para optimizar su software de
> musica amarok, soy estudio diseño grafico ultimo semestre en la tadeo lozano
> de cartagena - colombia, manejo debian y el programa que mas utilizo es
> inkscape y gimp aunque dentro de GNU/linux apenas llevo un año dandole pero
> siempre he seguido su filosofia copyleft.
> Bueno hay les dejo mi correo bendiciones y saludos.

Lo siento, mi español no es muy buena, por lo que continuará en Inglés.

Nice to hear from you :) We are always happy to see new designers
indeed. Since most people on this list don't speak Spanish it is
probably better to have this thread in English.

Do you have a portfolio or other examples of your previous work? You
may also have some ideas already on what could be improved in Amarok?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Re: Volume Resets at Pause

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Hi there,

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Justin Brown
 wrote:
> Ok, I've blown out my eardrums for the last time and have to write.
>
> I'm using Amarok 2.6.0 in Gnome 3.4.
>
> Every time I resume playing music after pausing a song, the volume
> maximizes. It's annoying when I'm using speakers, but it's physically
> dangerous when I'm using headphones.
>
> For example, I'm using my headphones at 22% volume in Amarok. I paused a
> song to talk to a coworker. When I resumed playing, the volume jumped to
> 100%, and my ears are still ringing.
>
> Has this bug been reported? Is anyone working on it?

I has been reported and is already fixed in the phonon-backend-vlc:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296589

As already stated by Bart: this is a problem in the sound stack of
your installation, namely Phonon and Pulaseaudio, not in Amarok as
Amarok itself doesn't play any sound.

JFYI: the bugs database of KDE is searchable for anyone, you could
have done that quite easily, even google-ing would have shown you the
results in the first page :)

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Re: Latest git: last.fm "skip track" button missing?

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Hi Dâniel,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Dâniel Fraga  wrote:
> I updated to the latest Amarok git and the Last.fm "skip track"
> is missing. Bug? What happened?

The last.fm API changed AFAIK

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Re: [Feedback] Amarok crashes all the time

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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:32 AM,   wrote:
> Thorsten sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> Hi,
> I tried to get help in a linux-forum, but they hadn´t a glue for my problem.
> Amarok crashes all the time under OpenSuse 12.2 with KDE. I started it again
> with the bash. It runs at the moment but I got this output:

Please make a bug report on http://bugs.kde.org and add the backtrace.
A konsoleoutput is rarely use ful for a crash.
Also please do not forget to specify the exact Amarok and KDE version
you use, the distribution version is of no help here.

For more information on how to get a valid backtrace, please have a
look here: 
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports

FWIW: the KDE forum is usually the best place to get help for KDE software:
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Re: Amarok and Pulseaudio

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Hi JD,

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:52 AM, JD  wrote:
> Using amarok-2.6.0-3.fc16.i686
> andpulseaudio-0.9.23-1.fc16.i686
> andkernel-3.6.2-1.fc16.i686
>
> While playing tracks from a disk directory, Amarok freezes
> and audio stops.
>
> So, I opened a terminal to see why the system was not responding.
> Ran top.
> Saw that Pulseaudio was eating 90% of cpu.
> This never happens with any other media player such as vlc, ffplay,
> mplayer, xmms, smplayer2, ... and many others.
>
> So, I killed amarok, and the system returned to normal.
>
> This happened twice in a row, so I gave up retrying.

I never heard about that one TBH. Try using the phonon-backend-vlc
instead of the gstreamer one and see if that still happens.

Since Amarok doesn't use Pulseaudio directly but through Phonon I
subscribe the Phonon developers to this.


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Re: Amarok and Pulseaudio

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On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:38 PM, JD  wrote:
>
> On 11/01/2012 06:12 AM, JD wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/01/2012 08:55 AM, Sascha Manns wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello JD,
>>>
>>> JD wrote at Donnerstag, 1. November 2012, 04:12:21:

 On 11/01/2012 01:28 AM, � wrote:
 OK, so I just installed phonon-backend-vlc.
 How do I tell amarok to use it instead of
 gstreamer?
 Do I have to recompile amarok and change the
 configuration options,or what?
>>>
>>> AFAIK Amarok uses the global KDE Settings. You can find them in
>>> Systemsettings/Hardware/Multimedia then klick on Phonon/Backend. After
>>> installaton of backend-vlc you should can choose them.
>>
>> Mega Thanx!!
>> That worked!!
>
> But. Pulseaudio is now consuming 29% of cpu -
> compared to 90% before phonon-backend-vlc
> but still wondering why so much? Does pulseaudio
> do any encoding or decoding? If not, why does it
> consume so much cpu?

Again: you are asking the wrong people, please ask this in the
kde-multimedia mailing list where the Phonon developers are.

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Re: New Amarok Electric Motorcycle

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On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling  wrote:

> BMW also have an SUV released last year called an amarok.

VW, not BMW, the BMW SUV's have an X :)


Folks, please, can  we keep this list about Amarok, the Music player?


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Re: Amarok playlists dont work

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Hi Maggie,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:42 AM, maggie webb  wrote:
> I have 2:2.5.0 and everything is up to date. I uninstalled and reinstalled 
> Amarok on my computer and it still wont play my old playlists.  90% of them 
> dont even cascade the listed music inside the playlists in the database.
> Can you fix this please?  AND -it is NOT an updating problem.

First of all: Please update, Amarok 2.5 is really old. I already gave
you the link to the update instructions twice, but here it is again:

http://kubuntu.org/news/amarok-26

Then: to know why Amarok doesn't play your old playlist, I need more
information:

* Where are those playlists located?
*Where is the music located these playlists refer to?
*Has the location of either the music or the playlists changed?
*What format are these playlists in?
*Which Phonon backend do you use?
*If the playlists are part of the collection: did you make a full
collection update?

But please, really, update Amarok first, we do not support older
versions, especially since there have been many changes since 2.5 and
we are about to release version 2.7 in about a month.

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Re: [Feedback] irc.freenode.net #amarok

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Hi there,

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:15 PM,   wrote:
> Eaglet Jhang sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> the translation of Chinese is not 中国语文　but　简体中文　or　繁体中文　.

Thank you very much for noticing, I corrected it, please check if it
shows correctly now.

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Re: Multiple songs playing simultaneously

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Hi AG,

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:46 PM, AG  wrote:
> Hello
>
> On a standard GNU/ Linux Debian squeeze 32-bit distribution:
>
> I am running Amarok (Version 2.3.1 Using KDE 4.4.3 (KDE 4.4.3)). AFAIK, all
> libraries are up-to-date.

And that is where the problem lies: Debian stable ships a completely
outdated and unsupported version of Amarok. The current stable version
we support is 2.6, please upgrade your system.

While it makes sense to use Debian stable for a server installation it
is really not the best of a choice for the desktop, Debian Wheezy or a
spin-off of Debian with a faster release cycle like Kubuntu or Mint
are better suited for the end user.

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Re: Cannot get Amarok to play without...

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Hi Tom,

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:22 AM,  wrote:
> ...quitting, then restarting it.  I listen to SKYFM Classical Guitar
> and I am wondering why I have to do this quit-restart after
> playing.  It has also happened when pausing the sound.
> Are there any plans to fix this?
>
> Heinz57 computer with AMD64 at 3GHz
> 8GB of memory
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
> Release:12.04
> Codename:   precise
> Amarok 2.6.0
> KDE 4.9.4
>
> Let me know if more information on my computer/software
> is needed.

I presume you use the phonon-backend-gstreamer, please install the
phonon-backend-vlc and switch to it in the Amarok Settings -> Playback
-> Configure Phonon-> Backend tab, then restart KDE.

The gstreamer backend is infamous for its problems with streams
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Re: Amarok 2.6 frequent crashes

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Hi Alexander,

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Alexander Puchmayr
 wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> After the upgrade from Amarok 2.5  to 2.6, it crashes after a random amount of
> time after starting the application. Sometimes it crashes in less than a
> minute, sometime I can even play a whole album.
>
> I've added the output of "amarok --debug" for analysis. The picture looks
> different each time, some times (but not every time) I get the message
>
> *** glibc detected *** amarok: malloc(): memory corruption (fast):
> 0x02c85240 ***
>
> Another common thing is that the last line I see in the debug-output has to do
> something with ScanManager::checkForDirectoryChanges.

Thank you for the debug output, but what we would need is a backtrace.
Please do the following:

(install the package gdb if you not already have it)

gdb amarok
run -d --nofork

when it crashes, type

thread apply all bt

and only give us that part after that line

Also some more information about your distribution and KDE version
would be helpful.


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Re: Amarok 2.6 frequent crashes

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Hi Alexander,

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Puchmayr
 wrote:
> Hi Myriam,
>
> Thank you for the quick reply!
>
> Please see the attached output (I'm afraid it will be of no much use as there
> are too much '??' instead of useful symbols :-( )
...

Well, of course you will need to have the DEBUG flags enabled for these

But since you are using Gentoo, could you test the latest git version
of Amarok? For us version 2.6 is rather old now and we have added so
many fixes since August (over 300 closed bug reports) and are about to
release Amarok 2.7 that it would make more sense to test with a more
recent installation.


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Re: Developping a new script for Amarok

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Hi Joseph,

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Josep Batallé  wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm developing a new script for amarok.
>
> I write this mail in order to get information about the svn repository. Now
> the script is not finished yet, but maybe the next week I have a final
> version. Then, you provides me a repository when I have the final version or
> before?

I wonder where you found information about the SVN repository, as we
do not use that anymore since several years.Currently, all Amarok
scripts are and should be hosted on http://kde-apps.org

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Re: problem in compiling and understanding the source code

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Hi there,

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Phalgun Guduthur  wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Shamsher Ahmed Siddiqui
>  wrote:
...
>>
>> i am using the amarok player for a time and i want to contribute to amarok
>> community ..i have downloaded the amarok via git but i am not able to get
>> how to compile amarok and how the amarok work .plz provide me some link or
>> study material from reading i will be ableto compile and could the
>> understand the source code .So that i can a step ahead in contribution
>> towards amarok and learn about it
>
>
> Use this link to compile amarok from Git - [1]
> Make sure you read the whole tutorial and follow each step.
>
> Once you compile Amarok, familiarize yourself with Qt and then KDE. [2]
...
> [1] -
> http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2009/09/26/compiling-amarok-from-git-locally-full-summary/
> [2] - techbase.kde.org

And since you are interested in Amarok, please familiarize you with
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Re: Play/Pause on screensaver lock/unlock

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Hi Marius,

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Marius  wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been bothered by the fact that I have to manually pause Amarok
> when locking my computer and when I'll find some time, I'd like to
> contribute a either a plugin or a script, to poll the screensaver
> state with DBus and to pause when it gets activated.
>
> As far as I've been able to look through the documentation[1] (which
> is not very complete - the link to qtscript bindings reference are
> dead, for example) I couldn't find any way of using DBus.

There are actually 3 scripting documents in that wiki, please check again:

http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Script_API
http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Scripting_HowTo_2.0
http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Scripted_Services_Tutorial_2.0

I know the API is not very complete, we welcome anybody who could help
us with that, it's just a lack of time by the developers this was
never extended until now.

I also strongly suggest you look at the existing scripts on
http://kde-apps.org for more hints.


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Re: [Feedback] Layout

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Hi Keith,

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:57 PM,   wrote:
> Keith Marner sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> Hi,
> I've separated the three views after unchecking "Lock Layout" but now I want
> to get back to the default layout but the context view remains in the centre
> of the screen and the other two are stuck at the full width of the screen.
> There are no minimise and close buttons on all three as noticed in the
> screen shots on your website. Do I have a buggy version? I have Amerok
> version 2.6.0 and KDE 4.9.00 (Build Date: Aug 15 2012) on my Widows 7
> desktop computer.

This is a known bug with the 2.6 version of Amarok:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300753. We will release version 2
.7 in a few days, hopefully this should then be fixed. Please keep an
eye on our website at http://amarok.kde.org to be notified about the
release.


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Re: Amarok 2.6 frequent crashes

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On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Thomas Lübking
 wrote:
> /usr/lib64/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.30.0
>
> Your gstreamer version is from 2010 i'd start about there.
>
> Most memory warnings seem t stem from QTJSC::Heap - equally old Qt?
>

That is usually an indication for a script causing problems. I suggest
you disable all 3rd-party scripts to start with, and if that helps,
re-enable them selectively to identify the culprit.


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Re: how to read the source code

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Hi Shamsher,

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Shamsher Ahmed Siddiqui
 wrote:
> hi all i have learnt the qt and now i am trying to read the source code but
> i am getting where to start .plz help me out

Please read the documentation we provide in

http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Dewvelopment/join as well as its
parent page. All these links give you all the information you need,

Please also read the HACKING folder in the source code.


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Re: Current playlist not displaying anything anymore

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Hi Maxime,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Maxime Haselbauer
 wrote:
> Hello Folks
>
> since today nothing is displayed in the current playlist of amarok
>
> See http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-rd2044
> on the right side, it looks like entries are here, but nothing is written in
> there, hence they are very tiny

No idea, what did you change?


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Re: Current playlist not displaying anything anymore

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Maxime Haselbauer
 wrote:
> Hi Myriam
>
> Dont know
> In the last days I changed the system fonts of KDE in the control panel, but I
> am not even sure that Amarok does not work SINCE that event.
>
> For 2 or 3 days, I think I rememberd amarok popping up a software to be
> updated in muon but same thing not sure..
>
> I have tried to reboot etc but nothing.

Try erasing the amarok* configuration files in $HOME/.kde/share/config/

And check your font settings again, you might have inadvertently set
something wrong there


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Re: Current playlist not displaying anything anymore

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Hi Brian,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Brian Morrison  wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:09:13 +0100
> Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>
>> > I have tried to reboot etc but nothing.
>>
>> Try erasing the amarok* configuration files in
>> $HOME/.kde/share/config/
>>
>> And check your font settings again, you might have inadvertently set
>> something wrong there
>
> Starting amarok from a terminal might give some clues.

Unlikely, if it is a font setting nothing will show there. And if you
want to see something you have to use the options -d --nofork

But in this particular case I doubt it will show anything, as it is a
display problem, and might be a rogue playlist layout causing
troubles, which is located in
$HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok/playlist-layouts/

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Re: Current playlist not displaying anything anymore

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Maxime Haselbauer
 wrote:
> I tried but no improvements.
>

You did check you font settings in the KDE systemsettings? Please make
sure to use the same font for all your system.

Try changing the playlist layout in the Amarok Playlist menu -> Playlist layouts


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Re: [Feedback] Volkswagen....

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Hi Bruce,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:38 AM,   wrote:
> Bruce W sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> Volkswagen is using the name Amaron on one of his models
>
Which is named "Amarok" like us and came out several years ago, we do
not live under a rock.

Amarok is also the name of an inuit wolf deity, an oil drilling
company in Canada, a junior football team in Naples, a record by Mike
Oldfield and a few more

But all this is off-topic on this list (except for the Oldfield
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Re: [Feedback] amarok und iphone 4 ios 6.1.2.

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hallo mcfiddich,

2013/3/24  :
> mcfiddich sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> hi amarok zeigt unser iphone 4 nicht an. Wir bekommen immer die folgende
> Meldung :

Das iPhone4 wird zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt nicht unterstützt, das Apple
es bei jeder Hardware immer schwieriger macht, diese Geräte mit etwas
anderem als Apple-Produkten zu benutzen. Das liegt an Apple, nicht an
uns, und da gibt es nicht viel, was wir dagegen tun können. Das wird
sich auch in absehbarer Zeit nicht ändern, du kannst ja bei deinem
nächsten Phone-Kauf aus genügend Alternativen wählen, wovon die
meisten mindestens genauso gut und sogar billiger sind.


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Re: Windows release of Amarok 2.7

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Hi Gui

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:20 AM, zw g  wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Is there any schedule for the Windows release of Amarok 2.7?
> I see there is long time after 2.7 official release.

Our Windows developer is currently busy with real life work, as soon
as he finds time the Windows build will follow.

We all work as volunteers in our free time, so any help is welcome  :)


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Re: Radio GFM integration in Amarok by default

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Hi Marco and Gregor,

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Matěj Laitl  wrote:
> On 5. 4. 2013 Marco Peter wrote:
...

> We'd love to see Radio GFM working in Amarok. The only sensible way to do it
> is creating so-called scripted service for it, fortunately for you, it is hell
> easy if you know a bit of JavaScript (your website creator certainly does)!

An alternative to a script would be to add your station to the Cool
Streams selection, which is probably easier for you, but would need
some code changes on our side and will of course only be visible on
the next release, which is probably later this summer

Please tell us what you prefer.

Of course you can still make a script to cover the mean time :)


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Re: Radio GFM integration in Amarok by default

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Hi Marco,

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Marco Peter  wrote:
> Hi Myriam,
>
> Thank you for the tip. I agree, this would be much easier for us.
>
> It would be better to do it the way you have suggested; could you please add
> our three Radio GFM streams (RockPop/Electro/Metal) to the "Cool Stream
> selection" for the next Amarok release. That would be very nice!
>
> With your support, we are able to spread our non-commercial radio stations
> and share creative commons music around the world. That's wonderful, thank
> you so much, Amarok team! :-)
>
> @Matěj: Sorry, I've forgot to keep the original e-mail addresses in the
> "CC"-field. I will try to do this correctly in future. ;-)

Can you please make a wish with all the details of the channel in our
bug tracker here:

https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=amarok

so we will not forget to do it :)

Thanks in advance


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Re: Local music oddity

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Hi Mark,

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Mark Fraser  wrote:
> For some strange reason, if I filter on tracks added less than an hour ago (or
> day), the same 4 tracks always appear. Any idea what is going on?

You filter where? Which Amarok version, KDE version, distribution?

> Might try a rescan later to see if that fixes it.

Updating should be enough.


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Re: Local music oddity

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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Mark Fraser  wrote:
> On Thursday 11 Apr 2013 09:53:03 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Mark Fraser  wrote:
>> > For some strange reason, if I filter on tracks added less than an hour ago
>> > (or day), the same 4 tracks always appear. Any idea what is going on?
>>
>> You filter where? Which Amarok version, KDE version, distribution?
>
> In "Media Sources" > Local Collection, there is a filter bar at the top.
> Amarok 2.7, KDE 4.10.2 and Kubuntu 13.04.
>
>> > Might try a rescan later to see if that fixes it.

Did you try the rescan by now? Would probably help, as the Collection
Browser has some caching issues.


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Re: regarding amarok development

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Hi Abhay,

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Abhay92  wrote:
> hello,I am very much interested in amarok development.I want to take amarok
> as my gsoc project. I find the code  little difficult to understand .I
> cannot understand where to start.
> I have knowledge of C++ , Qt and little bit understanding of multi
> threading.Please guide me from where i can start and provide me with some
> documentation or links so i could understand the code.

Why do you send this again and to a different mailing list when you
have already gotten a response from me on the amarok-devel@ one?
Please read all the documentation you were given, if you still don't
understand after that you can still ask questions, but you need to to
the reading yourself, we can't do that for you.


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Re: [Feedback] Radio streams

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Hi Hubert,

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM,   wrote:
> Hubert sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> Hello
> Since a recent update of KDE 4.10 under OpenSUSE 12.3 I do not get connected
> to the radio streams anymore. Message: Missing plug in: ICY Internet -
> Radio-Demuxer.
> Where can I find this module and how to install. The automatic search fails.

I guess there is something missing in your Opensuse installation,
probably one of the gstreamer plugins.

Beware: only install gstreamer plugins for the versions 0.10.x, do not
use the one marked as 1.x

More information about missing codecs or plugins is better asked for
in an Opensuse mailing list or forum, as this is very specific to your
distribution.


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Re: Proposal for Amarok

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So sorry, please disregard this as SPAM...

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Daniel Behar
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Re: radio vorschlag

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hall Dieter,

2013/4/28  :
>
>
> hallo
> das team von http://top100chartmix.net hat interese bei ihnen gelistet zu 
> werden.fügemal unsere urls mit bei
> würden uns um antwort freuen
> http://fox.stream.top100chartmix.net
> http://chart.stream.top100chartmix.net

Tut mir leid, aber wir listen keine kommerziellen Radios, ebensowenig
ausschliesslich Deutsche Charts, das entspricht nicht unserer
Zielgruppe. Sie könne dieses jedoch ohne weiters als Skript für Amarok
anbieten auf http://kde-apps.org

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

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Re: shell -p option broken

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Hi Chris,

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Matěj Laitl  wrote:
>
> On 19. 3. 2013 Chris wrote:
> > Upgraded to Amarok 2.7, and now the "-p" option when starting from the
> > shell is broken!
> >
> > example:
> > amarok -p http://radio1.internode.on.net:8000/29
> >
> > It looks up the the address correctly , but seems to only seems to send
> > the 29 at the end.
> >
> > Comes back with the on screen display showing only the 29.
> >
> > However, if I double click the playlist entry it seems to work correctly.
>
> Hi,
> first, sorry for late reply, your mail must have slipped through (our
> attention).
>
> Please do search for this bug on bugs.kde.org - if you cannot find an earlier
> report, please file a new report. This is the best way to ensure that we don't
> forget about this problem and eventually fix it in the future.

We already have an open bug report, as not only the -p option is
broken but several other command line options:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317385


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Re: Some Mass Media not recognized

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Hi Alexander,

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Alexander Puchmayr
 wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I tried to use a 4GB SD-Card as music collection for my car-radio, but for
> some reason Amarok does not recognize it as external media. The card mounts
> fine (Its a VFat/Fat32 or the like), I can access it, add files and 
> directories
> via dolphin to it, and so on.
>
> Since other external media (Ipod, old USB-Stick, external harddrive) work fine
> with amarok, there must be something that makes amarok to ignore SD-Cards and
> any other media I connected with my card reader. I've tried three other SD-
> Cards and one compact-flash media.
>
I just tried here with a 2 GB SD-card and it shows up fine in Amarok
2.8.0, KDE 4.11.2, maybe an update is a good idea?


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Re: Creating Two Separate Local Collections

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Hi Guy,

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Guy Rutenberg  wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if there is a way to create two separate local collections?
>
> I would like for example, to keep my classical music collection separate
> from the rest. Usually I don't mix and match classical and non-classical
> music in my playlist, and it would be easier if they were in completely
> different collections.
>
> Preferably I would be able to set up different sorting order for each
> collection, so I can order by default my classical collection by composer
> and the rest by artist.

I am afraid that is not possible. And even if there were different
local collections, this would not change the sorting in the Collection
Browser, as the sorting extends to all listed collections. It would be
quite a hassle and probably quite some additional code complexity to
have different sorting for different collections.

But you can very easily change the display with the Wrench-button top
right of the Collection Browser.

As for the searching:

it is quite easy to search by either Artist or Composer, that is
independent of the sorting order, as you enter the search term in the
search field anyway.


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Re: Copy files to local folder

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Hi Guy,

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Guy Rutenberg  wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I know how to copy files and transcode them from my local collection to a
> different device. Is there a way to do so to a local folder?

Yes, with the option "Organize Files" (right click on a track or
album). This allows you to transcode and move files to a new location.

Caveat: make sure you have at least double the space of the files you
are moving.


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Re: Analyzer applet is missing from Windows version of Amarok 2.8.0 .

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Hi there,

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Touristas0  wrote:
> I use Amarok on Linux Mint and it become my favorite music player.
>
> Sometimes I have to switch back to Windows and I tried the latest windows
> version of Amarok 2.8.0 and I couldn't find the analyzer applet it any way
> there.
>
> I have Windows 8.1 64-Bit Enterprise Version.
>
> Is it normal that I can't find the analyzer applet?
>
> Is there a way to add analyzer?
>
> Thanks in advance for your work and time.
>
> I would be very glad if I'll get a reply.



The Analyzer applet depends on the phonon-backend-gstreamer, which is
not available under Windows. and there is no possibility to add it to
Windows either.


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Re: Analyzer applet is missing from Windows version of Amarok 2.8.0 .

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On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:49 PM, JD  wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed it.
> The installation displayed at least 2 errors
> but the error windows did not stay on the screen,
> (they quickly disappeared),
> so I am not able to state what the errors were.
>
Erm, are you sure your comment is in any way helpful?

I already answered the question, did you read my reply?


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Re: Amarok 2.8.0 fatal error at first launch.

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On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 8:21 AM, JD  wrote:
> Hi,
> I downloaded and installed amarok 2.9.0 (x86 for windows) - as
> Administrator.
> After installation, I logged out and logged
> back in as unprivileged user and started amarok.
> I got an error banner saying:
> -
> Amarok could not find any collection plugins. It is possible that Amarok is
> installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:
>
> $ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
> $ su -c "make uninstall"
> $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` && su -c "make
> install"
>
> $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
> $ amarok
>
> More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance
> join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.
>
> -
> Clicked OK on the error banner and Amarok exited.
>
> However, when I launched it subsequently several times, it no longer
> displayed this error banner.

First of all: from where did you download it and what instructions did
you follow to install it?

Then: does it start now, or is just the message missing?

Please be more precise in your questions, as you refer to Amarok
2.9.0, which clearly doesn't exist.


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Re: Amarok 2.8.0 fatal error at first launch.

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On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 7:02 PM, JD  wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Myriam Schweingruber 
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 8:21 AM, JD  wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I downloaded and installed amarok 2.9.0 (x86 for windows) - as
>> > Administrator.
>> > After installation, I logged out and logged
>> > back in as unprivileged user and started amarok.
>> > I got an error banner saying:
>> >
>> > -
>> > Amarok could not find any collection plugins. It is possible that Amarok
>> > is
>> > installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:
>> >
>> > $ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
>> > $ su -c "make uninstall"
>> > $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` && su -c "make
>> > install"
>> >
>> > $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
>> > $ amarok
>> >
>> > More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance
>> > join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.
>> >
>> >
>> > -
>> > Clicked OK on the error banner and Amarok exited.
>> >
>> > However, when I launched it subsequently several times, it no longer
>> > displayed this error banner.
>>
>> First of all: from where did you download it and what instructions did
>> you follow to install it?
>>
>> Then: does it start now, or is just the message missing?
>>
>> Please be more precise in your questions, as you refer to Amarok
>> 2.9.0, which clearly doesn't exist.
>>
>>
>> Regards, Myriam
>> -
>
>
> Oooops!
> My bad - I am not the best typist :)
> I meant 2.8.0 (which I understand is still in Beta).


Absolutely not, if it were beta it would be in the name, The final
release was in August, the Beta ran in July

> I downloaded it from amarok.kde.org website.
>
> 1 Dedicated Amarok installer
>
> However, there are no instructions, per se'.
> Perhaps you could point them out.
> On the web page
> http://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted
> there are no installation instructions. It mentions
> (and links to) dependencies.
> The dedicated installer package is supposed to include
> all dependencies.

Well, you said you installed it in administrator mode. I don't know
what that exactly means under Windows (there was no such mode when I
last used it to install something), but normally just running the
installer as a simple user should be enough, it is self-explaining.
>From the error you got this was probably the problem, as it didn't
find all the plugins because those were not installed  in your
user-space.

> Finally, it does run OK after the first fatal launch.
> But I have not tested all of it's features.

OK, then the problem is solved for now it seems :)


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Re: [Feedback] Video Player Anfrage

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hallo Herr Clemenz,


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:07 AM,   wrote:
...
> Hallo,
> ich habe es mit OwnCloud Version 5 versucht und nun auch mit Version 6, aber
> leider ohne Erfolg.
> Und zwar wollen wir einen Streaming Player einbinden, am besten einer für
> alles. aber auch einzelnt würde gehen.
>
> Video, Musik und Bilder, alles sollte Online direkt angezeigt werden können.
> Also als Streaming. Insbesondere Video in vielen Formaten wäre uns wichtig.
> Nur leider klappt es einfach nicht.
>
> Haben Sie solch ein Addon und was würde die Installation uns Einrichtung
> kosten?
>
> Gruß Michael Clemenz

Amarok ist kein Streaming Server und hat auch kein Video Plugin,
ebensowenig ist das der Fall mit OwnCloud, soweit ich weiss ist dort
nur der audio stream-Server Ampache implementiert.

Ich kann ihnen also leider nicht damit dienen, aber sie sollten sich
vielleich einmal VideoLAN (kurz VLC) anschauen:
http://www.videolan.org/


MfG,

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Re: Amarok hangs during playback at 0:03s mark

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Hi Alexander,

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Alexander Puchmayr
 wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I encountered a problem with amarok 2.8 (Kde 4.10.5, gentoo linux, amd64):
>
> Create a playlist with songs of different formats (ogg, mp3, flac -- these I
> tested). When an mp3 song ends and the next song is either flac or ogg, then 
> it
> hangs at the 0:03s mark at the next song, and does not play anything. I
> reproduced on three different computers (all amarok 2.8/kde 4.10.5/gentoo,
> plus/minus some version of the underlaying libs).
>
> In general I observed:
> Transitions from mp3->mp3 or ogg->ogg  and flac->flac work fine, mp3-> 
> flag|ogg
> hangs, ogg-> flac hangs too.
> It seems like if the next song has a different codec, it likely hangs, except
> if the next song is mp3. I could never observe a mp3 song to hang.
>
> If it is in the hanging state, "Next song" / "previous song" work, and the
> song that hung before plays fine if either started by double clicking it or by
> using "next/prev". Alternatively, moving the position marker makes also the
> song play.

Sadly you don't specify which phonon backend you are using, which is
essential when talking about playback in Amarok, as Amarok doesn't
play the sound, but uses Phonon and its backends to do so.

JFYI: there is a known bug with the phonon-backend-gstreamer with
track to track progression. Actually the problem is the gstremer
0.10.x library, and there currently is work in progress to use the
gstreamer 1.x library in phonon, but this is not finished and hence
not released. This bug is only one of the reasons why the Phonon
developers recommend the phonon-backend-vlc to be the preferred one.

FWIW: you can find a very long list of bugs and duplicates describing
this problem in http://bugs.kde.org. Google is your friend here, as
"amarok track change" would have given you that list and more than
enough explanations...

FWIW2: your KDE version is outdated, the current one is 4.12.1 and the
4.11 branch also is still one of the maintained ones, 4.10.x isn't:
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules


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Re: Amarok hangs during playback at 0:03s mark

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Alexander,

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Alexander Puchmayr
 wrote:
> Thanks for the response!
>
> Am Montag, 17. Februar 2014, 19:09:30 schrieb Myriam Schweingruber:
>
...
> If you know the right keywords to google ...
> I looked for "Amarok hang" and found only one bug from 2012 which described a
> similar problem and was marked as CLOSED in 2012 ...

Try "amarok track change", you will find a long list.

Anyway, as a workaround, try to use the phonon-backend-vlc, that
should allow for a correct track change.


Regards, Myriam

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