Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Monday 16 November 2009 21:40:42 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon writes:
> > > I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection:
> > >
> > > amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database
> > > selected on "INSERT INTO images SELECT * FROM images_temp;"
> >
> > Not here. Sometimes the collection gets screwed up a little, but I do
> > not get any output when re-scanning the collection.
It just happened again. I added a new folder to my /data/mp3 hierarchy
(metal), put some folders of music into it, marked it as collection folder
and told amarok to re-scan the collection. When I search for 'metallica',
it finds 'Rapoon'. When I drag a metallica album folder directly into
amarok, it shows the album's name correctly, but the artist is 'Rapoon'.
I unmarked all of my collection's folders, let amarok re-scan, and now the
collection is empty. I added all the folders again, scanned, and I have
the same problem.
I deleted ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/mysqle, started amarok and let it
scan, now all is fine again. Seems I have to do this once in a while.
> I have now made a decision. I was a faithful amarok user for 5 years.
> In the kde-3.5 days it worked flawlessly and never gave a day's
> trouble. The switch to KDE-4 has been fraught with problems from day 1
> - all the decent features went away, then the devs spent two years
> fiddling with the gui while the palyer didn't *actually* play music
> (gee whizz, whodathunkedit? That a user might actually play music on
> his media player). Then the monumental cock-up with MySQL and -fPIC,
> the jumping through hoops that caused with every single distro out
> there, mysql-5.1.* is still not in the tree un-hardmasked, and now
> this crap.
I had my bunch of problems with the new amarok, too. And still, I like it.
I got used to it, I like the new layout, it gets song texts fine (which
stopped working for the old amarok some time ago).
> Amarok, it was nice knowing you. One day you might build and play music
> again on all sane systems out there. Meanwhile, I think I want to hear
> songs play so some other player is going on this machine and you are
> coming off.
What about using amarok 1.4, until 2.x works fine for you?
Mine does not work any longer, though. Just noted this when I started it
to compare with the 2.2 one, did not do this a while ago.
/usr/kde/3.5/bin/amarok immediately throws an 'illegal instruction' error.
Huh? I did not change my CFLAGS, they are "-march=k8-sse3 -mfpmath=sse -O2
-pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" on a AMD Athlon 4850e. The k8-sse3 should be
sane, gcc -Q --help=target -march=native lists it. I am not sure where I
got the -mfpmath=sse from. I rebuilt amarok 1.4, and get the same error,
probably somewhere in kdelibs or such stuff. Strange. Let's see if this
happens with other stuff, too.
Wonko
