Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I > > cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve > > this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very > > unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in > > this time? > > Fuck knows what amarok-2x does for the first 5 minutes. I *think* On my > system it scans the music directory, presumably to find updates that > happened when amarok was not running. Fair enough, can't argue that, > but why is it so *slow*???
Yes, it scans the collection, I just verified that by removing a folder from my collection. Start-up takes 7 minutes, I guess this also slows down my KDE4 start-up even further (strigi also scans some stuff for about a minute, along this music files I did not touch in any way). So when I save my KDE session I have to remember to quit amarok before that. Of course, I also have to remember to start amarok some time after I logged in, so I can play music when I want without having to wait 7 minutes first. This does not feel right... BTW, a find /data/mp3 -type d takes about a minute. Checking the date of the directories to verify they did not alter since the last scan should not take that much longer. Ah, I see the problem. It mainly scans /data/mp3/incoming, a directory I have NOT selected as collection folder (but most other directories in /data/mp3 are selected). Still, those files do not show up in my collection, which is fine - some time ago amarok did index all in /data/mp3, even if a directory was not selected. > Fuck also knows what the amarok devs are doing in general. I still > can't find a way to move stuff to an mp3 player like the old 1.4 > version did. And the library thingamagij still doesn't always update > tags, or put tag changes that it itself did into it's own database. It > gladly accepts any changes you make in the Edit Tags dialog, and tries > to write them, even if it knows it cannot do it (no support for that > format, permissions, etc). Then, no warning or message about this. Ah, this looks familiar, I ran into this, too. > Depending on which bleeding edge latest-svn commit build you happen to > get on any given day, this last might or might not tell you something > in the status bar. I'm always using the newest version that is not hard-masked. with every new version, some things get better, but others get worse. This delays and startup times are new to me, but on the other hand I did not get any file corruption for a long time. I do not like the new toolbar though. Where are the stop, forward and back buttons? And for the volume control I have to move the mouse in a circle around it... or use the scroll wheel, okay. Nah, I liked it better the way it was before. > For all the above reasons, and more, I have switched to clementine > (it's in portage). It's a Qt port of amarok-1.4 and has equivalents of > all the music- playing goodness that amarok used to have. It doesn't > do tags, external players, wikipedia etc etc, it just plays music. And > you have to tag your music by other means with eg kid3. I can live > with that. At least it starts and stays up. Nice! But not for me. I like the wikipedia stuff. And tagging, now that it seems to work. And what amarok is supposed to become. Yes, I like it much better than the old amarok, it's just that things do not already work fine. So I will keep suffering, until some day amarok will not do all the annoying stuff it currently does. The day will come! Hopefully long before they start coding amarok-3 and all gets worse again. I'll just have to wait. And wait. Thanks anyway for the tip, at least I can use clementine when I see that amarok is not running yet and did not do its 7 minutes of scanning already. Wonko