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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.

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.
 * the code will be publicly available on [2] in branches named gsoc or 
similar; I encourage you to test these, but please note that I will `git 
rebase` these branches rather often so you may get git errors when pulling
 * general code cleanups and bug-fixes will go directly to master as no one 
opposed that suggestion.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome, I've already received some suggestions 
(from ownCloud-related people) and an offer to test my work, which is good, but 
I'll gladly embrace more.

[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/strohel/15001
[2] http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Famarok%2Flaitl%2Famarok.git&a=summary

Cheers,
Matěj Laitl
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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   30466  6.6  5.3 1205748 423804 ?      Sl   13:54   0:12 /usr/bin/amarok
martin< at >merkaba:~/.kde> date ; kill 30466                             
Fr 18. Mai 13:57:57 CEST 2012


strace has it at:

martin< at >merkaba:~> strace -fF -p 30466
Process 30466 attached with 9 threads - interrupt to quit
[pid 30486] futex(0x7fb6b4edbf54, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 3, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 30484] select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 30482] futex(0x7fb6aee25354, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 1, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 30481] futex(0xf44a1c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 101, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 30480] futex(0xf44a1c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 103, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 30481] <... futex resumed> )       = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
[pid 30480] <... futex resumed> )       = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
[pid 30481] futex(0xf44a1c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 104, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 30480] futex(0xf44a1c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 104, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 30479] futex(0xf44a1c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 104, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 30478] futex(0xf44a1c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 102, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
unavailable)
[pid 30477] restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...> <unfinished ...>
[pid 30478] futex(0xf44a1c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 104, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 30466] futex(0x7fb69a702480, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL^C <unfinished ...>
Process 30466 detached
Process 30477 detached
Process 30478 detached
Process 30479 detached
Process 30480 detached
Process 30481 detached
Process 30482 detached
Process 30484 detached
Process 30486 detached


Looking at ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle the database files appeared
to be fine on first glance.


martin< at >merkaba:~> apt-show-versions | egrep "(amarok|kdebase)"
amarok/sid uptodate 2.5.0-1
amarok-common/sid uptodate 2.5.0-1
amarok-utils/sid uptodate 2.5.0-1
kdebase-apps/sid uptodate 4:4.7.4-2
kdebase-bin/sid uptodate 4:4.7.4-2
kdebase-runtime/experimental-snapshots uptodate 4:4.8.3-0r1
kdebase-runtime-dbg/experimental-snapshots uptodate 4:4.8.3-0r1
kdebase-workspace-bin/experimental-snapshots uptodate 4:4.8.3-0r1
kdebase-workspace-dbg/experimental-snapshots uptodate 4:4.8.3-0r1

merkaba:~> apt-show-versions | grep "mysql"  
libmysqlclient-dev/sid uptodate 5.5.23-2
libmysqlclient16/sid uptodate 5.1.62-1
libmysqlclient18/sid uptodate 5.5.23-2
libqt4-sql-mysql/sid uptodate 4:4.8.1-1
mysql-common/sid uptodate 5.5.23-2


amarok --debug gives:

amarok:     BEGIN: MainWindow::MainWindow() 
amarok:       BEGIN: CollectionManager::CollectionManager() 
amarok:       END__: CollectionManager::CollectionManager() [Took: 0s] 
amarok:       BEGIN: Plugins::PluginManager::PluginManager(QObject*) 
amarok:         BEGIN: void Plugins::PluginManager::findAllPlugins() 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_collection-audiocdcollection" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_collection-daapcollection" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_collection-mtpcollection" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_collection-mysqlservercollection" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_collection-mysqlecollection" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_collection-upnpcollection" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_collection-umscollection" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_collection-ipodcollection" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_device_massstorage" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_device_nfs" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_device_smb" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_service_ampache" enabled: false 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_service_jamendo" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_service_lastfm" enabled: false 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_service_amazonstore" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_service_mp3tunes" enabled: false 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_service_magnatunestore" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] found plugin: "amarok_service_opmldirectory" enabled: true 
amarok:           [PluginManager] 18 plugins in total 
amarok:         END__: void Plugins::PluginManager::findAllPlugins() [Took: 0.002s] 
amarok:         [PluginManager] created factory for plugin "amarok_collection-audiocdcollection" type: 
"Collection" 
amarok:         [PluginManager] created factory for plugin "amarok_collection-daapcollection" type: 
"Collection" 
amarok:         [PluginManager] created factory for plugin "amarok_collection-mtpcollection" type: 
"Collection" 
amarok:         [PluginManager] created factory for plugin "amarok_collection-mysqlecollection" type: 
"Collection" 
amarok:         [PluginManager] created factory for plugin "amarok_collection-upnpcollection" type: 
"Collection" 
amarok:         [PluginManager] created factory for plugin "amarok_collection-umscollection" type: 
"Collection" 
amarok:         [PluginManager] created factory for plugin "amarok_collection-ipodcollection" type: 
"Collection" 
amarok:         BEGIN: void CollectionManager::init(const QList<Plugins::PluginFactory*>&) 
amarok:           BEGIN: void CollectionManager::loadPlugins(const 
QList<Collections::CollectionFactory*>&) 
amarok:             [CollectionManager] initializing "amarok_collection-mysqlecollection" 


mysql_embedded: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted


amarok:             [ERROR__] MySQL library initialization failed. 
amarok:             [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] "GREPME MySQLe query failed! (2000)  on init" 


amarok:             BEGIN: bool DatabaseUpdater::update() 
amarok:               [MySqlStorage] Initialized thread, count== 1 
amarok:               [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform query on uninitialized MySQL 
amarok:               Database version:  0 
amarok:               BEGIN: void DatabaseUpdater::createTables() const 
amarok:                 [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform query on uninitialized MySQL 
[…]
amarok:                 [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform query on uninitialized MySQL 
amarok:               END__: void DatabaseUpdater::createTables() const [Took: 0s] 
amarok:               [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform query on uninitialized MySQL 
amarok:             END__: bool DatabaseUpdater::update() [Took: 0s] 
amarok:             [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform query on uninitialized MySQL 
[…]
amarok:             [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform query on uninitialized MySQL 
amarok:             BEGIN: virtual int App::newInstance() 
amarok:               BEGIN: static void App::handleCliArgs() 
amarok:               END__: static void App::handleCliArgs() [Took: 0s] 
amarok:             END__: virtual int App::newInstance() [Took: 0s] 
martin< at >merkaba:~> amarok:             [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform query on 
uninitialized MySQL 
amarok:             [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform query on uninitialized MySQL 
[…]
amarok:             [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform query on uninitialized MySQL 
amarok:             BEGIN: void ScanManager::checkScannerVersion() 
amarok:             END__: void ScanManager::checkScannerVersion() [Took: 0.016s] 



I just did:

mkdir /etc/mysql/conf.d

and now Amarok loads and shows collection again.

I reported this downstream with Debian.



But I do see two upstream issues in here at least:

1) Amarok just still be SIGTERM-able on this situation.

2) Amarok should provide a better error message.


Although I do not understand why MySQL embedded should need anything
out of /etc/mysql.


Please advise whether you see upstream bugs involved that you´d like me
to report on bugs.kde.org.

Thanks,

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.

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?

[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

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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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.

[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 tried emailing the address listed on one of the pages you have that had a  
mangled email address for  mitchell< at >tkded.t.org, or
  mitchell< at >tkdedt.org, and both bounced back.  If you could supply the correct  
email for whomever else this may need to go to, I will send an rtf file that  
has 2 screenshots of the properties, details tab from windows exporer.

Thanks in advance,
Kent

Report as inappropriate:  
http://amarok.kde.org/en/mollom/report/session/12042680d0ef115417

Project Idea for SoK

Arjun Basu — 2012-04-25T17:39:09

I posted a few yesterday wishing to do Season of KDE. I got a reply from
Teo asking me to choose a project from Amarok. I came across this project
idea "Implement MediaArtStorageSpec". I saw on the ideas page that it was
available as a Season of KDE project. It would be great if someone could
mentor me on this idea.
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Weird layout of local collection in 2.4.x

Jörg Schaible — 2012-04-25T02:01:57

Hello,

my first attempt to use Amarok 2.4.0 (~ 11 months ago) failed, but now
I had finally to switch from Amarok 2.3.2 to Amarok 2.4.3, since the old 
version had some display incompatibilities after my update from KDE 4.7.4 to 
4.8.1. Unfortunately the problems with 2.4.3 are for me still the same as 
with 2.4.0. I understand that Amarok supports now an album interpret 
starting with 2.4.x.

My local collection is typically sorted with the interpret at the first 
layer and the album name at the second layer (incl. year). In 2.3.2 this has 
for some albums the unfortunate effect that they are added to the various 
artists, just because one song is e.g. a duet. With 2.4.x this album is 
moved out of the various artists and I get individual entries now, one for 
each interpret variation. OK, therefore I select in 2.4.3 now the album 
interpret as first layer and - hooray - all titles of the album are grouped 
together within one entry (well, if the titles have the album interpret 
set). Promising.

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?

- Jörg

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Project for SoK

Arjun Basu — 2012-04-24T13:29:01

Hello,
I am Arjun. I applied for GSoC this year under KDEgames but unfortunately I
wasn't selected. As I still want to contribute to KDE , I want to
participate in Season of KDE under amarok. I don't have any project idea
yet on which to do the SoK so it would be great if someone could suggest an
idea on which I can work.
My proposal is available here if anyone wants to take a look
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/arjbasu/1

nepomuk

James Lloyd — 2012-04-19T21:37:26

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

                                                    thanks

src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection: IpodCollection: fix compilation failure with recent glib versions

Matěj Laitl — 2012-04-16T20:46:27

Git commit f3e92cd75009e2355020d45ed58a4b27d547f18f by Matěj Laitl.
Committed on 16/04/2012 at 22:34.
Pushed by laitl into branch 'master'.

IpodCollection: fix compilation failure with recent glib versions

Thanks go to Bernd Buschinski on amarok< at >kde.org for spotting and
reporting this.

CCMAIL: b.buschinski< at >googlemail.com
CCMAIL: amarok< at >kde.org

M  +1    -1    src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodMeta.h
M  +1    -1    src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodPlaylistProvider.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/amarok/f3e92cd75009e2355020d45ed58a4b27d547f18f

diff --git a/src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodMeta.h b/src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodMeta.h
index a2c64c0..832d4c6 100644
--- a/src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodMeta.h
+++ b/src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodMeta.h
< at >< at > -24,7 +24,7 < at >< at >
 
 #include <QReadWriteLock>
 
-#include <glib/gtypes.h>
+#include <glib.h>
 #include <glibconfig.h>
 
 
diff --git a/src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodPlaylistProvider.cpp b/src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodPlaylistProvider.cpp
index 11d6f39..e4544ba 100644
--- a/src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodPlaylistProvider.cpp
+++ b/src/core-impl/collections/ipodcollection/IpodPlaylistProvider.cpp
< at >< at > -25,7 +25,7 < at >< at >
 #include "core-impl/collections/support/FileCollectionLocation.h"
 #include "core-impl/meta/file/File.h"
 
-#include <glib/glist.h>
+#include <glib.h>
 #include <gpod/itdb.h>
 
 
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amarok git master does not build

Bernd Buschinski — 2012-04-16T12:13:19

amarok git master does not build, I think this is because of the ipod rewrite

http://paste.kde.org/457850/

look at line 27.


libgpod-0.8.2
glib-2.32.1

Any news about Amarok 2.6?

zw g — 2012-04-13T18:47:35

Any news about the next release of Amarok2.6?
Is it still being actively developed?

I can't wait to see the next exciting release!

It's been ~4 months since last release, and i see no release plan on the
calendar of the home page of Amarok.
Is there any plan? Dear folks. It'd be nice to have a release plan/schedule
of the next release.

I love Amarok:)
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Getting the Amarok system tray icon image

Ravi — 2012-04-11T18:31:49

Hi,

When I try to get system tray icon in Amarok using the iconPixmap() in
Amarok::TrayIcon I get a zero sized icon. An idea whay this is
happening?

http://paste.kde.org/448160/

Thanks.

Amarok 2.5: Collection empty after crash

Martin Steigerwald — 2012-03-29T14:47:34

Hi!

I wanted to send this as bug report, but as on trying to get diagnostic 
information it suddenly worked again, I just write a mail to here for now:


I had this before, although it has been quite some time. Instead of just 
deleting the whole database and starting from scratch without 
understanding what has happened, I now want to understand whats going on 
here.

On my Amarok machine, a ThinkPad T23, with Debian Wheezy/Sid, I just 
upgraded from KDE SC 4.6.5 to 4.7.4. Then I rebooted and started Amarok 
again.

It played some tracks and then music stopped. As I looked Amarok was 
stopped. I thought it might have crashed.

I started it again:

- collection was empty, except for Amarok theme Art of Nations
- playlist was empty


I tried to update the collection database. Then I went to 
Settings/Collection and told it to scan the collection again.

Nothing.


Thats it. What has happened?

IMHO thats absolutely a no-go. I just removed Pulseaudio from that machine 
some weeks ago, cause when I resume this machine I want it to play audio - 
instead of it spilling usb_set_interface_failed onto kernel log or not 
initializing all channels properly or doing audio stuttering where it 
doesn´t without and so on, but thats a different rant.

I expect my Amarok machine to play when I resume it. Just like when I 
switch on my CD player. And thats it. No discussion.


Well some diagnostics:

martin< at >deepdance:~> apt-show-versions | egrep "(amarok|libqtgui4|kde-
runtime)"
amarok/wheezy uptodate 2.5.0-1
amarok-common/wheezy uptodate 2.5.0-1
amarok-utils/wheezy uptodate 2.5.0-1
kde-runtime/wheezy uptodate 4:4.7.4-2
kde-runtime-data/wheezy uptodate 4:4.7.4-2
libqtgui4/wheezy uptodate 4:4.7.4-2


martin< at >deepdance:share/apps/amarok> ls -lh collection.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 martin martin 6,3M Mai 13  2009 collection.db

martin< at >deepdance:share/apps/amarok> ls -l mysqle                                              
insgesamt 0
drwx------ 1 martin martin 2040 Okt  9 14:09 amarok
drwx------ 1 martin martin   12 Mai 13  2009 mysql

amarok database contains lots of *.frm, *.MYD and *.MYI files.

martin< at >deepdance:share/apps/amarok> find -iname "*lock*" | grep -v moods
martin< at >deepdance:share/apps/amarok#1>


Hmmm, now I cleaned .xsession-errors with truncate -s0 and started

amarok --debug

But then at least the collection is there again.

Playlist is still gone.

Well, sorry, it seems thats it with diagnostic information. Next time I 
copy .xsession-errors aside before truncating it to get just the new stuff 
in it.



I think that recovery after a Amarok crash or whyever Amarok stopped 
played and was stopped then, should be automatic in all cases. Well 
ideally Amarok wouldn´t crash.

Maybe the issue is, that after a full rescan the collection view is not 
updated and one has to stop and start Amarok to get it updated.

But then a full rescan shouldn´t be necessary. The recovery should be 
automatic IMHO.


Should it happen again, I think I will backup

~/.kde/share/apps/Amarok
~/.kde/share/config/amarok*

to a safe place before trying any restauration.

Ciao,

Amarok 2.4.3 doesn't write covers to the files

Arvind S Raj — 2012-03-09T10:37:24

Hello everyone,
I'm running Amarok 2.4.3 on Kubuntu 11.10. I've updated the covers for a
lot of albums and they're displayed in amarok but they do not get written
to the files. When I open the file in VLC, the old album cover is still
displayed. I've check the option "Write covers to file" in Settings ->
Configure Amarok -> Collection but Amarok still doesn't write it.

I installed the debug symbols and ran "amarok --debug --nofork" and here's
the output: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/563257/

I was told by Valorie in the IRC to not include the startup information but
wasn't sure how to do so and so have included all startup information. If
there's some more information required, do let me know and I'll definitely
provide them.

[Feedback] Invoking Amarok Script Console

2012-02-24T01:34:30

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

Hello,

I just started working with Amarok. This looks like a rich set of APIs. I  
need to write a script that can automatically scan certain directories and  
pick one MP3 file from each to build a new Playlist for our radio station  
(and also stop the playlist to run the live programs that we have a couple of  
times a day. )

I was looking for "Amarok Script Console" to run a test script but I can not  
find the menu option with this version (2.5). I am using the Windows version.  
How can I run a script?

Thank you,
Kamran

Report as inappropriate:  
http://amarok.kde.org/en/mollom/report/session/1202246e59be3746ee

Invoking Amarok Script Console

Kamy — 2012-02-24T01:07:38

Hello,

I just started working with Amarok. This looks like a rich set of APIs. I
need to write a script that can automatically scan certain directories and
pick one MP3 file from each to build a new Playlist for our radio station
(and also stop the playlist to run the live programs that we have a couple
of times a day. )

I was looking for "Amarok Script Console" to run a test script but I can
not find the menu option with this version (2.5). I am using the Windows
version. How can I run a script?

Thank you,
Kamran
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