Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

[Mountain Man]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

Mine crashes when I try to download cover art.

Amarok has done that for me for the last few versions. I finally gave up on it and moved to Songbird which I'm very happy with. Plus, Songbird reads album cover images embedded in the MP3 file so I don't have to fuss around with downloading them.

[skunk]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

Mine crashes when I try to download cover art.

Amarok has done that for me for the last few versions. I finally gave up on it and moved to Songbird which I'm very happy with. Plus, Songbird reads album cover images embedded in the MP3 file so I don't have to fuss around with downloading them.

Interesting. On my machine, downloading cover art worked fine until I installed 2.3.0

[idyllic]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

I tried some bold steps and finally everything works for me. No more crashes whatsoever. Note to self: once there is a major update, wipe clean the previous version completely. Can't test the CD problem cos I don't have a Music CD.

Wipe out your config and application layout and database.

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

You lose all your playlist, cover arts, etc... but Amarok works amazingly well again. You can try putting the config/database back one by one. Though I don't bet on that. Wipe config alone will not give you a functional Amarok you have to kill apps/amarok as well, like in my case, layout isn't remembered and new scanned tracks got weird random tag from random existing track.

Cheers mates
idyllictux

[kjjjjshab]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

I came home after work tonight and noticed my CPU was 45-50 with nothing of note running (it would normally be at 30-35). Then I saw I had left Amarok 2.3 running (nothing paused or the like). Closed out and I went back down to 35.

[Snowhog]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

Wipe out your config and application layout and database.

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

Just tried this, and then used Amarok to play a music CD. Works! No crashes!!

Amarok wouldn't play the CD when launched from the Device Notifier (Play Audio CD with Amarok), but after closing Amarok, and with the CD still in the caddy, then relaunching Amarok allowed me to play the CD with:

Amarok > Play Media > Places > Audio CD > Full CD > [album name].cda (.flac, .ogg, and .wav are other choices).

I switched tracks - back and forth; allowed a track to finish and start the next; jumped to the end of the playing track all othe manner of manual navigation. Amarok played them all with nary a crash. Cool. 8)

[Snowhog]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

I figured out how, through the Device Notifier, to get Amarok to launch when I have inserted a music CD into the caddy.

The default Device Action for Play Audio CD with Amarok is written incorrectly. I deleted the bad .desktop file in /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/ and added a new entry (this puts the resulting .desktop file in ~/.kde/share/apps/solid/actions which I called Open Music CD with Amarok. This is what the contents of the .desktop file contains:

[Desktop Action open]
Exec=amarok --cdplay audio:/
Icon=amarok
Name=Open Music CD with Amarok
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=desktop_kdebase-workspace

[Desktop Entry]
Actions=open;
Type=Service
X-KDE-Action-Custom=true
X-KDE-Solid-Predicate=[OpticalDisc.availableContent == 'Audio' AND StorageVolume.ignored == false]

Works flawlessly (so far).

[Snowhog]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

After the updates installed tonight (amarok amarok-common amarok-dbg amarok-utils libsmbclient libwbclient0 samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient), Amarok is again crashing. I want to use Amarok, but this is rediculous beyond acceptable. Sorry to say it, but Amarok 2.* just sucks!

I am giving serious thought to just uninstalling it and using VLC. It just works - period.

[Snowhog]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

Amarok is no more. Removed all traces of it, and the Device Actions files as well. I'll be sticking with VLC.

[overando]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

Ditto..... Tired of waiting..

[ubuntuku]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

Amarok is no more. Removed all traces of it, and the Device Actions files as well. I'll be sticking with VLC.

Amarok 2.3.0 works just fine here, not a single crash since I installed it (using KDE 4.3.5 :P).

[vinnywright]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

After the updates installed tonight (amarok amarok-common amarok-dbg amarok-utils libsmbclient libwbclient0 samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient), Amarok is again crashing. I want to use Amarok, but this is rediculous beyond acceptable. Sorry to say it, but Amarok 2.* just sucks!

I am giving serious thought to just uninstalling it and using VLC. It just works - period.

ya same thing happend to me after that round of updates...... hell it dosent even see the cd's agin.

in addition to VLC I'v ben using Bangarang witch is working well to.............but VLC dose do more.

VINNY

[reyfer]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

Hmmmm......Amarok works great for me.....no crashes....reads CDs....weird

[Snowhog]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

What version of Amarok are you running?

[tnorris]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

Amarok works great for me here too. I'm running Amarok 2.3.0 on KDE 4.4.1. I haven't tested it with CD's at all, but it works great for my MP3 collection shared over NFS from my NAS.

[kjjjjshab]

Re: Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light"

There are ppa2 versions out tonight for ya to try Snowhog, if you want...