2010/1/6 B. Alexander <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
