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**jglen490** · Nov 25, 2009, 07:35 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

I tried Amarok from the PPA repo, it was worse. I tried XMMS, BLECHHHH!. I have Xine, but couldn't figure out how to do a URL playlist of internet radio stations. I finally settled on mplayer with the smplayer frontend. It's very nice and while the playlist is a matter of cut and paste into a text file, it's working. So right now I'm listening to Grand Funk Railroad on Sky.fm with a few other choices in my file that I "flip channels" through.

Oh well, sometimes second best is better. Maybe in 10.04 Amarok will actually work again.

**tnorris** · Nov 25, 2009, 08:03 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

For what it's worth, I have Amarok 2.2.1 running just fine on Kubuntu 9.10. I didn't have to do anything particularly special to get it to work. In order to understand the problem, you'll have to provide more details.

**drumkitcat** · Nov 26, 2009, 11:51 AM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

Wow, that's funny because I'm running Kubuntu 9.10 and Amarok plays mp3 files perfectly fine either from the hard drive or from a cd, but I can't get it to play regular audio cd's at all!!

The system recognizes that an audio cd is in the drive, but I just don't know how to get it to play the cd - almost idiotic, but I just don't get it.

For mp3 files, no problem though. If anyone has a fix for the audio cd thing, I'd love to hear it.

**tomp01** · Nov 26, 2009, 02:43 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

Amarok is indeed very puzzling, I finally managed to get it working with CDs using 2.2.1., I then had some other Kubuntu issues so I decided to go for a clean reinstall. Since which time I cannot get it to work again, God knows what's wrong with it. Banshee and Exaile work perfectly, so if they are supposed to be open source why can't the Amarok bods see what they are doing right and they are doing wrong?

**drumkitcat** · Nov 26, 2009, 02:44 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

I'll have to check the version of mine, I don't know if it's 2.2.1 or an earlier one. I do have some time tonight so I'll do an upgrade - I figure it couldn't behave worse (yes it could..)

**tomp01** · Nov 26, 2009, 03:05 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

Originally posted by drumkitcat

I'll have to check the version of mine, I don't know if it's 2.2.1 or an earlier one. I do have some time tonight so I'll do an upgrade - I figure it couldn't behave worse (yes it could..)

I know for sure that 2.2.0 does not work with CDs, so you may be lucky with 2.2.1

**jglen490** · Nov 26, 2009, 04:39 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

Originally posted by tnorris

For what it's worth, I have Amarok 2.2.1 running just fine on Kubuntu 9.10. I didn't have to do anything particularly special to get it to work. In order to understand the problem, you'll have to provide more details.

Actually, it might be helpful to know whether you did a clean install to 9.10, upgrade via CD (and where you got the CD), upgrade via package manager, and whether you needed to install any other packages (i.e., codec, other amarok-related) after your install/upgrade. Because all I did was upgrade via a Shipit CD from a working 9.04. Amarok no longer worked. Went through the hoops described above.

**tomp01** · Nov 26, 2009, 05:42 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

Originally posted by jglen490

Originally posted by tnorris

For what it's worth, I have Amarok 2.2.1 running just fine on Kubuntu 9.10. I didn't have to do anything particularly special to get it to work. In order to understand the problem, you'll have to provide more details.

Actually, it might be helpful to know whether you did a clean install to 9.10, upgrade via CD (and where you got the CD), upgrade via package manager, and whether you needed to install any other packages (i.e., codec, other amarok-related) after your install/upgrade. Because all I did was upgrade via a Shipit CD from a working 9.04. Amarok no longer worked. Went through the hoops described above.

It is just baffling to me, can somebody explain why Exaile and Banshee work perfectly with CDs yet Amarok is so flaky?

**drumkitcat** · Nov 26, 2009, 06:04 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

It's good to know at least that Amarok isn't the only possible software for playing cd's... I'm still unhappy that it doesn't work with regular audio cd's but knowing there are alternatives is making it a little easier to handle.

**jglen490** · Nov 26, 2009, 07:31 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

The greatest thing about Linux is choice. If one app doen't work for you -- for any reason -- there are others waiting to show their stuff.

While before I was using Amarok for all things audio, I now use Akregator for collecting and listening to podcasts and Smplayer for internet radio and CDs. It's all good

**tomp01** · Nov 27, 2009, 06:03 AM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

Originally posted by jglen490

The greatest thing about Linux is choice. If one app doen't work for you -- for any reason -- there are others waiting to show their stuff.

While before I was using Amarok for all things audio, I now use Akregator for collecting and listening to podcasts and Smplayer for internet radio and CDs. It's all good

Amarok is still the best, when it works, it's just that the developer's quality control stinks.

**tomp01** · Nov 27, 2009, 12:49 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

Originally posted by tomp01

Originally posted by jglen490

The greatest thing about Linux is choice. If one app doen't work for you -- for any reason -- there are others waiting to show their stuff.

While before I was using Amarok for all things audio, I now use Akregator for collecting and listening to podcasts and Smplayer for internet radio and CDs. It's all good

Amarok is still the best, when it works, it's just that the developer's quality control stinks.

I finally managed to get Amarok 1.4.10 to work with KK, I'm going to stick with it until they sort out Amarok 2.x.x

https://edge.launchpad.net/~bogdanb/+archive/amarok14/

**tomp01** · Nov 27, 2009, 04:28 PM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

Originally posted by jglen490

The greatest thing about Linux is choice. If one app doen't work for you -- for any reason -- there are others waiting to show their stuff.

While before I was using Amarok for all things audio, I now use Akregator for collecting and listening to podcasts and Smplayer for internet radio and CDs. It's all good

That still doesn't explain why Amarok is so buggy, they have had nearly two years now to restore the features in 1.4.10. It can't be that hard surely, am I missing something here?

**BigCityCat** · Nov 28, 2009, 10:02 AM

Re: [SOLVED]Amarok, Wherefore Art Thou

I had to remove Amarok. It broke my system, so I had to do a re install and then it did the same thing and I had to re install again.

Here is what happened. I deleted a track from my collection through Amarok by right clicking on the track in Amarok and selecting remove or delete. Shortly after that I got a message home/user/paul ...etc is not writable then everything I click I am getting that message, so I restart. Then all I get is root user prompt. So I re installed, then after I get everything set up I try Amarok. After playing for about 1 minute I start getting the messages again. I decided I'm not screwing with Amarok anymore. I have re installed and everything is fine. I'm not an expert with the terminal so I just stay away from programs that completely jack my whole system.

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