Re: Managing music library with amaroK
2010/1/6 B. Alexander <storm16@gmail.com>:
> Ever since I upgraded to amaroK 2.x, I have had a problem with the
> collection manager not seeing various media files, but it is only on one
> machine, but not on another that is almost identically configured. It
> appears that a good percentage of them are albums I bought off of Amazon. As
> I said, this occurs on one box (defiant) but not the other (farragut). They
> have more or less the same package lists and the same music on both boxes.
> The main difference is that defiant's amaroK was upgraded from 1.x, and
> farragut was installed clean.
>
> I tried moving the collection.db and the collection_scan.files out of the
> way and restarting amarok, but it did not do any good.
Yes, try to move out all amarok data from .kde.
Also, if it doesn't help, start amarok from a console with --debug and
look what it says when scanning collection.
Best regards,
Valentin Pavlyuchenko
>
> Another oddity. Many of the tweaks (like album art, tracks listed as various
> artists, etc) didn't carry over from the upgrade. So I will check "list
> tracks under various artists" as I come to them. Well, in various artists,
> each track creates a new album of the same title. As a for instance, I have
> the Multiplication Rock album. The tracks were listed in the collection
> under the individual artists. When I would move them to various artists, I
> would wind up with an extra Multiplication Rock album...For instance, there
> are 11 tracks on this album. In my collection, I have 11 instances of
> Multiplication Rock, and each instance has 11 tracks. This is happening on
> both machines.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what the cause is or what I can do to fix it?
> Should I get rid of the entire .kde/share/apps/amarok/*?
>
> Thanks,
> --b
>
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