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Re: Amarok 2.5.0 has a bad memory leak

Matěj Laitl — 2012-05-25T20:55:21

Hi,
related bug that now contains lengthy valgrind report: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298627 check it out.

Cheers,
Matěj
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Re: Amarok 2.5.0 has a bad memory leak

Bart Cerneels — 2012-05-23T10:17:45

Hey Gerald.
Thanks for the data you gathered. It certainly proves we have a
memleak problem. As you point out it's probably related to the
playlist, but that is not directly a give and likely is not the only
memleak there is.
I'll have a go finding it before the next release anyway.

I'm sharing this with the developer list.

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox< at >bzb.us> wrote:

Amarok 2.5.0 has a bad memory leak

Gerald B. Cox — 2012-05-23T04:15:20

Just an FYI in case like me you leave amarok running at times... don't....

Amarok memory leak when changing tracks
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298627

Easily reproducible - just load up a playlist and
select the repeat playlist option.

The only plugins I am using are mass
storage device and lastfm.

I ran the following command to document the leak:
top -b -d 150 -p 11866 > amarok.txt

I then imported the results into a google spreadsheet you can view here:
http://goo.gl/Q4bZw

Memory utilization started out at 7.4% and ended up at 31.9% after approx 48
hours.  The leak is steady and unrelenting.  I ran the same playlist under QMMP
during the same period and memory utilization was steady at 2.5% throughout the
period.

Re: GSoC project presentation: Statistics synchronization for collections and Last.fm

Teo Mrnjavac — 2012-05-19T20:17:36

Great! Rebase early, rebase often ;) Looking forward to seeing your
stuff in master.
You rok!

Cheers,

GSoC project presentation: Statistics synchronization for collections and Last.fm

Matěj Laitl — 2012-05-19T19:56:32

Hi Amarok developers and users,
this is my overdue presentation of my accepted GSoC project [1]. Many of you 
already know me, I'm Matěj Laitl a.k.a. strohel on IRC, I live in Czech 
Republic very close to the beautiful city of Prague (that you should definitely 
visit one day). I've rewritten iPod collection plugin and I've been working on 
transcode support and general bugfixing lately.

My GSoC project is called Statistics synchronization for pluggable devices and 
Last.fm, you can read all the details including proposed implementation and 
time-line on project page [1]. My mentor is Myriam Schweingruber a.k.a. 
Mamarok.

In short:
 * In the first part, I will implement inter-collection statistics 
synchronization. I will strive to merge this to master as soon as it is ready, 
this should be in first weeks of July. 
 * In the second part, I'll put existing last.fm scrobbling support behind an 
abstraction layer and then implement statistics synchronization with 
scrobbling services on top of this layer.

Fails to initalize db: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (solved already)

Martin Steigerwald — 2012-05-18T12:34:21

Hi!

I solved this already for me. This is a documentation should anyone else
have this issue and as question whether here are upstream issues involved.
I reported it downstream with Debian already.


Today, after just starting Amarok after having switched to
Phonon VLC for testing whether Amarok does not skip or fail to
playback certain songs - I did logout and login to switch
- I just got:

Die Amarok-Datenbank berichtet die folgenden Fehler:
GREPME MySQLe query failed! (2000)  on init
In den meisten Fällen müssen diese Fehler behoben sein, bevor Amarok vollständig funktioniert.


Amarok then started, but collection is empty.

When I then quit Amarok its process is still there.

It doesn´t respond to a SIGINT.


martin< at >merkaba:~/.kde> date ; kill 30466
Fr 18. Mai 13:57:07 CEST 2012
martin< at >merkaba:~/.kde> date ; kill 30466
Fr 18. Mai 13:57:21 CEST 2012
martin< at >merkaba:~/.kde> date ; kill 30466
Fr 18. Mai 13:57:39 CEST 2012

martin< at >merkaba:~/.kde> ps aux | grep "/usr/bin/amarok" | grep -v grep
martin   30

Re: No sound anymore, fedora 15

Myriam Schweingruber — 2012-05-16T16:20:54

Hi Carine,

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Carine Simon <csimon< at >utm.csic.es> wrote:

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

Regards, Myriam

Re: No sound anymore, fedora 15

Myriam Schweingruber — 2012-05-15T00:45:46

Hi Carine,

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Carine Simon <csimon< at >utm.csic.es> wrote:

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.

Regards, Myriam

No sound anymore, fedora 15

Carine Simon — 2012-05-14T11:04:50

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.
I have had a related problem last month but the other way around, i.e. 
the sound did work on Amarok but not on Firefox. To fix it, on firefox, 
I have desactived DivX and it solved the problem.
Any idea how to fix this one?
Cheers.

Re: Weird layout of local collection in 2.4.x

Jörg Schaible — 2012-05-07T16:25:25

Hi Myriam,

Myriam Schweingruber wrote:


thanks for the answer, but Amarok 2.5.x is no way better in this regard. We 
already discussed in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216759.

Cheers,
Jörg


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Re: Weird layout of local collection in 2.4.x

Myriam Schweingruber — 2012-05-07T13:01:20

Hi Jörg,

first of all, sorry for the lat answer.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible< at >gmx.de> wrote:
...

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.

Regards, Myriam.

Re: weird problem shuffling a playlist with 2000+ tracks

Jayesh Badwaik — 2012-05-06T16:28:22

I am on ArchLinux and I have some 4700 tracks and I don't have any such 
problem. However, just for checking, there is this related situation which you 
might be encountering.

When the tracklist is almost finished (some 15 seconds before the finish), 
Amarok tried to prefetch the new track, and in the process, for that certain 
amount of time, the now playing track is not the actual now playing track but 
rather the track that will be played next. If manually change tracks at this 
point, Amarok stores the current track as the next track and plays the track 
which you just now activated. If this is not the problem, then there might be 
some other debian specific build problem.

weird problem shuffling a playlist with 2000+ tracks

Alan Ezust — 2012-05-06T15:29:16

I have some large playlists that I like to shuffle. They can have
anywhere from 2000 to 6000 tracks in them.

I've noticed since a recent upgrade from Amarok 2.4 to Amarok 2.5
(debian testing), that it sometimes repeats the same track immediately
after it finishes, and at this point, Amarok becomes confused about
what the current track is. Sometimes the "now playing" is what it is
going to play next, and other times, I can 't figure out what the
relationship between "now playing" and the track I am currently
hearing is.

I don't have a reproducible test case for this yet. You can be sure I
will post a bug report when I can figure out how to reproduce it
reliably.
I can give you some observations though: it seems to be really busy
(CPU-wise) trying to determine what the next track is, and sometimes
that process might take too long so amarok just repeats the same track
instead of playing something new.

So basically, amarok 2.5 seems to be almost unusable with large playlists.

Anyone else experience this?

Re: [Feedback] Norton security warning

Jayesh Badwaik — 2012-05-04T08:17:55

A quick google search brings up the following [1]. It seems like this is a 
false positive. If you want to still check, you can check the shasum of the 
downloaded file with the shasum given on the internet [2]. This will ensure 
that your copy is clean and exactly the same as the original.

[Feedback] Norton security warning

2012-05-03T20:37:39

Henrik sent a message using the contact form at  
http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.

Hello,
I installed Amarok 2.5.0.2 meanwhile on two machines, Laptop and PC. Both  
using Norton Internet Security 2012. After both installations I got a  
security warning from Norton regarding a threat. Details noted:

systemsettings.exe
Threat name: Suspicious.Cloud.5
Unknown Community Usage, Unknown Age, Risk High

File: .......amarok\bin\systemsettings.exe Removed

Amarok is running, but threat warnings always make me sweating.

Best regards

Henrik

Als ungeeignet melden:  
http://amarok.kde.org/de/mollom/report/session/120503f2e2e304242d

Re: Summer of KDE 2012

Teo Mrnjavac — 2012-04-28T17:19:49

Hello Rahul,

thanks for contacting us. It is very good that you have already done
patches for KDE. To apply please follow the directions in this article
[1]. Unfortunately Amarok is almost at full mentoring capacity right
now so we are not sure we will be able to find a mentor for your
project, but please submit your application anyway and we will see
what we can do.

[1] http://tinyurl.com/sok-faq

Cheers,

Summer of KDE 2012

Rahul Sharma — 2012-04-28T17:16:31

Hi,
I want to take part in SoK this year. I want to work on Implement
MediaArtStorageSpec project.
I have a basic knowledge of Qt and a strong background in C++.
I have done a bug fix for kmplot project and also proposed patches for the
project marble.
I am very interested in doing the project and I am looking for someone who
can mentor me on this.

So, please do tell me who I should contact for this purpose.

Regards,
Rahul Sharma
NUM_1 (on irc.freenode.net)
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Re: Season of KDE

Teo Mrnjavac — 2012-04-28T08:42:11

Hello Parveen,

thanks for contacting us. There is no strict knowledge prerequisite,
but obviously if you are better prepared your chances to be selected
will be higher. To apply please follow the directions in this article
[1]. Unfortunately Amarok is almost at full mentoring capacity right
now so we are not sure we will be able to find a mentor for your
project, but please submit your application anyway and we will see
what we can do.

[1] http://tinyurl.com/sok-faq

Cheers,

Season of KDE

parveen arora — 2012-04-28T04:17:41

Sir,

I would like to participate in Season of KDE and very keen in working on
"Project: Implement MediaArtStorageSpec "

Brief explanation: MediaArtStorageSpec provides a mechanism for
applications to store and retrieve artwork associated with media content,
like music from an album, the logo for a radio station, or a graphic
representing a podcast. The storage medium for artwork is a file system,
inside a user's home directory.

I also have prerequisite knowledge of C++ and a little of Qt. I would like
to know what all things i need to know on working this project .

Looking forward for your reply.

Re: [Feedback] mp3s created with Amarok won't play nice with others

Jayesh Badwaik — 2012-04-27T07:48:21

Just to make sure since I can do everything painlessly. 
Did you see this? [1] Did your CD recognize the tags before you ripped it? 
If not, did you edit the track details before you ripped it?

"_" is used for spaces between words of the same field, while "-" is used for 
different fields. Are you sure you wanted it that way? 

In case, you did everything properly, you said the filename part was done 
right. In that case, consider using a software such as EasyTag where you can 
specify the format in which the filename is written and then it automatically,
updates tags for the files using the data from the file name. So, if the filename 
is regular, you have to do the tagging stuff only once, saving a lot of your 
time.

[Feedback] mp3s created with Amarok won't play nice with others

2012-04-26T17:54:08

Kent Kilgore sent a message using the contact form at  
http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.

After spending LOTS of time ripping cds and moving them manually to a sansa  
clip mp3 player, I found everything in the "unknown" catagory. Then, I ran  
them through MP3tag v. 2.5 to add what I noticed were missing tags and change  
the names to something other players can read.  The file name part seemed to  
work fine, but when I examine tags from tunes that came on the player, I  
noticed that not only did the name in the original players' songs have a "_"  
instead of a "-", but that the metadata shown in windows file properties,  
details did NOT have the album name even listed, but that the one created  
with Amarok doesn't show the artist catagory before the title one.

Consequently, it appears that I'll probably have to use either the software  
that came with the player, or windows media player to re-rip all these cds,  
or spend WAY more time correcting the ones ripped with Amarok.  Any  
suggestions?

I tr