[SOLVED] Amarok problem

[martenbiter]

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 got a screen for u
[img width=400 height=250]http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2421/amarok.png[/img]

[ubuntuku]

Re: Amarok problem

Works fine here with latest version (2.4.1). You may need to upgrade your amarok:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[martenbiter]

Re: Amarok problem

Works fine here with latest version (2.4.1). You may need to upgrade your amarok:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

i had an update for amarok thnx to you but still the same problem
the language of amarok did change to my native language...

[ubuntuku]

Re: Amarok problem

Yeah it does not always work, but you can just open cover manager and click the [Fetch Missing Covers] button. FYI retrieval of covers relies on the tags of your music collection. Amarok uses the Artist - Album query to search Amazon for covers. The better your collection is tagged, the better the hit rate when automatically retrieving covers.

You may want to install songbird, imho it's better than amarok.
[img width=400 height=269]http://i.imgur.com/72NuE.jpg[/img]

You can download it from here: http://developer.songbirdnest.com/builds/trunk/latest/

Extract the archive to your home folder:

tar xzf Songbird_*.tar.gz
mv Songbird_*/ ~/.songbird

Execute ~/.songbird/songbird to launch it.

[martenbiter]

Re: Amarok problem

Yeah it does not always work, but you can just open cover manager and click the [Fetch Missing Covers] button. FYI retrieval of covers relies on the tags of your music collection. Amarok uses the Artist - Album query to search Amazon for covers. The better your collection is tagged, the better the hit rate when automatically retrieving covers.

You may want to install songbird, imho it's better than amarok.
[img width=400 height=269]http://i.imgur.com/72NuE.jpg[/img]

You can download it from here: http://developer.songbirdnest.com/builds/trunk/latest/

Extract the archive to your home folder:

tar xzf Songbird_*.tar.gz
mv Songbird_*/ ~/.songbird

Execute ~/.songbird/songbird to launch it.

thnx!
I thought that songbird was really buggy but I had only tried it on windows.
also really nice interface. Like itunes but without itunes

i tagged my music good btw, I really hate to see mistagging
also the amarok cover manager was empty, that was the weirdest thing of all.
but thank you so much for helping

[martenbiter]

Re: Amarok problem

never mind, fixed the problem.
I edited my collection which apparently wasn't focused on the right folder.
(I did only add my songs to the playlist I guess)
now it retrieves covers for me

still thanx for helping though