Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On Thursday 26 October 2006 11:42, Martins Steinbergs wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:31, Dale wrote: postgres postgres just works, i wont say is there any big difference compared with mysql. My mistake, postgres isn't supported on *my* system because I have the flag turned off. :) I just checked in amarok's engine room and couldn't see the option. -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. tel/fax: +66 2252 1438 mobile: +66 8513 22487 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: It does. And if you have such things like home on NFS you need to use a real RDBMS anyway. Since you already have postgresql installed, just use it. Bye... Dirk Thanks for the info. Just what, and how, does it use postgresql anyway? Keep in mind I'm not really sure what postgresql is. I know it is a database program of some kind but that's about it. The home page didn't shed much light either. :\ Still learning. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 10:56 schrieb ext Dale: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: It does. And if you have such things like home on NFS you need to use a real RDBMS anyway. Since you already have postgresql installed, just use it. Thanks for the info. Just what, and how, does it use postgresql anyway? Amarok uses postgres (or better: a postgres managed database) to store meta information of your music (like album data, track titles, when played last, ...). Keep in mind I'm not really sure what postgresql is. I know it is a database program of some kind but that's about it. The home page didn't shed much light either. :\ It is a full featured Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS), similar to Oracle. This means that it allows you to create databases to store any kind of information and later query those databases to get these informations back. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgp3Klr1d81RK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 10:56 schrieb ext Dale: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: It does. And if you have such things like home on NFS you need to use a real RDBMS anyway. Since you already have postgresql installed, just use it. Thanks for the info. Just what, and how, does it use postgresql anyway? Amarok uses postgres (or better: a postgres managed database) to store meta information of your music (like album data, track titles, when played last, ...). Keep in mind I'm not really sure what postgresql is. I know it is a database program of some kind but that's about it. The home page didn't shed much light either. :\ It is a full featured Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS), similar to Oracle. This means that it allows you to create databases to store any kind of information and later query those databases to get these informations back. HTH... Dirk Why couldn't they put something like that on the home page? LOL That make a lot more sense. I have heard of Oracle, never seen it though. Thanks for the info. Learned a bit more today. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
Hi, As we all know XMMS was recently removed. I have a little CD collection that I want to put on my hard drive and I want to use Amarok to do this. I have postgresql installed and am trying to get it setup using the Gentoo wiki. This is what I have installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery list postgresql [ Searching for package 'postgresql' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] dev-db/postgresql-8.0.8 (0) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery list amarok [ Searching for package 'amarok' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] media-sound/amarok-1.4.3-r1 (0) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # I have never done any of this before. Somehow, likely by mistake, I got one CD copied over and can play off the hard drive. I have no idea how I did this really. I need someone on or off list to teach me how to get the music off the CD, get it into Amarok so I get get this going. This looks really cool. If whoever can help me uses MySql instead, I would be willing to install it, especially if it is better. I only want to do CDs. I have a lousy dial-up connection here. Thanks much for any help you can provide. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:49, Dale wrote: I have never done any of this before. Somehow, likely by mistake, I got one CD copied over and can play off the hard drive. I have no idea how I did this really. I need someone on or off list to teach me how to get the music off the CD, get it into Amarok so I get get this going. This looks really cool. If whoever can help me uses MySql instead, I would be willing to install it, especially if it is better. I only want to do CDs. I have a lousy dial-up connection here. By default amarok uses a built-in copy of SQlite, so you don't really need MySQL unless you use it for something else. Postgres is not supported. Rip your CDs with k3b. HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. tel/fax: +66 2252 1438 mobile: +66 8513 22487 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 22:08, Robin Atwood wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:49, Dale wrote: I have never done any of this before. Somehow, likely by mistake, I got one CD copied over and can play off the hard drive. I have no idea how I did this really. I need someone on or off list to teach me how to get the music off the CD, get it into Amarok so I get get this going. This looks really cool. If whoever can help me uses MySql instead, I would be willing to install it, especially if it is better. I only want to do CDs. I have a lousy dial-up connection here. By default amarok uses a built-in copy of SQlite, so you don't really need MySQL unless you use it for something else. Postgres is not supported. Rip your CDs with k3b. An easy way to rip cds is to go to 'audiocd://' in konqueror, then it will show some folders containing mp3s, oggs and flac files which you can then copy and paste to whereever you want and the cd ripping and encoding will be handled transparently for you. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
Robin Atwood wrote: By default amarok uses a built-in copy of SQlite, so you don't really need MySQL unless you use it for something else. Postgres is not supported. Rip your CDs with k3b. HTH -Robin. Thanks for the info. I noticed the first time I started amarok that postgres was not even running but it didn't seem to notice it. I don't remember emergeing it either but I may have. I did figure out what I did earlier. Tell me if you think I am doing wrong here. When I insert a CD, the window pops up on what to do. I select 'extract and encode'. Then it saves it to ~/wav when I tell it to 'rip' them. I then move it to my music directory ~/music. After that, Amarok picks it right up and they play fine. The only thing that I do not like is this. I have to use the PCM slider to control my music volume which also controls the volume of the sound of notifications in KDE too. So when I turn up the music volume it seems to turn up everything else too. Any way around this? Thanks for the help. Sometimes I just need a little help getting started. I'm disabled so time is something I have to much of sometimes. I like to tinker with my rig. Now to move my OS to another drive without messing up anything. ;-) Wish me luck. Thanks Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
By default amarok uses a built-in copy of SQlite, so you don't really need MySQL unless you use it for something else. Postgres is not supported. Rip your CDs with k3b. HTH -Robin. -- Postgres is supported, see http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Postgresql_HowTo and the use flag postgres is present. My 2 cts Benjamin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:00:18 -0500 Dale Dale wrote: I did figure out what I did earlier. Tell me if you think I am doing wrong here. When I insert a CD, the window pops up on what to do. I select 'extract and encode'. Then it saves it to ~/wav when I tell it to 'rip' them. I then move it to my music directory ~/music. After that, Amarok picks it right up and they play fine. Well, I'm not sure if I've understood you, but I simply put audiocd:// in konqueror and the copy ogg/mp3 folder to wherever I want... The only thing that I do not like is this. I have to use the PCM slider to control my music volume which also controls the volume of the sound of notifications in KDE too. So when I turn up the music volume it seems to turn up everything else too. Any way around this? amarok has its own volume control. Winkey and + or Winkey and - Now to move my OS to another drive without messing up anything. ;-) Wish me luck. good luck! Thanks Dale Cheers! -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Wiggum: Dispara a las ruedas Lou. Lou: eee, es un tanque jefe. Wiggum: Me tienes hartito con todas tus excusas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
Conneries wearegeeks wrote: By default amarok uses a built-in copy of SQlite, so you don't really need MySQL unless you use it for something else. Postgres is not supported. Rip your CDs with k3b. HTH -Robin. -- Postgres is supported, see http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Postgresql_HowTo and the use flag postgres is present. My 2 cts Benjamin You may be correct. It says support is compiled in. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -pv amarok These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-sound/amarok-1.4.3-r1 USE=arts kde opengl postgres -aac -debug -ifp -ipod -mysql -njb -noamazon -real -visualization -xinerama (-xmms) LINGUAS=-az -bg -br -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja -ka -km -ko -lt -ms -nb -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -rw -sl -sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sv -ta -tg -th -tr -uk -uz -zh_CN -zh_TW 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # I don't know how it works but it says it is there. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On 25 October 2006 15:00, Dale wrote: I did figure out what I did earlier. Tell me if you think I am doing wrong here. When I insert a CD, the window pops up on what to do. I select 'extract and encode'. Then it saves it to ~/wav when I tell it to 'rip' them. I then move it to my music directory ~/music. After that, Amarok picks it right up and they play fine. The only thing that I do not like is this. I have to use the PCM slider to control my music volume which also controls the volume of the sound of notifications in KDE too. So when I turn up the music volume it seems to turn up everything else too. Any way around this? Whether amaroK (or any other application) plays a sound file (your music) or the system plays a sound file (system notifications) doesn't matter, it *is* the same source. So the same volume settings apply. No way around that. You can, though, control amaroK's volume to a certain extent in amaroK itself. Try to put amaroK's internal control to 100% and drop PCM a bit lower. It might help though I doubt it will help much. (Don't know for sure because I don't use system notifications.) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:37:30 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: You can, though, control amaroK's volume to a certain extent in amaroK itself. Try to put amaroK's internal control to 100% and drop PCM a bit lower. It might help though I doubt it will help much. (Don't know for sure because I don't use system notifications.) You can also control the volume of system notifications, so it's probably best to set PCM fairly high then bring down the volume for notifications and various applications to their best levels. -- Neil Bothwick Multitasking?? But I only have one PC! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:37:30 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: You can, though, control amaroK's volume to a certain extent in amaroK itself. Try to put amaroK's internal control to 100% and drop PCM a bit lower. It might help though I doubt it will help much. (Don't know for sure because I don't use system notifications.) You can also control the volume of system notifications, so it's probably best to set PCM fairly high then bring down the volume for notifications and various applications to their best levels. WOW. That must be new. I never saw that before. Wooo Oo. That helped a lot. Now to go get all the sounds turned back on. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On 25 October 2006 17:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:37:30 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: You can, though, control amaroK's volume to a certain extent in amaroK itself. Try to put amaroK's internal control to 100% and drop PCM a bit lower. It might help though I doubt it will help much. (Don't know for sure because I don't use system notifications.) You can also control the volume of system notifications, so it's probably best to set PCM fairly high then bring down the volume for notifications and various applications to their best levels. How? I am sitting here with KDE 3.5.5 and can't find any such control. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
El Miércoles, 25 de Octubre de 2006 19:43, Uwe Thiem escribió: On 25 October 2006 17:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:37:30 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: You can, though, control amaroK's volume to a certain extent in amaroK itself. Try to put amaroK's internal control to 100% and drop PCM a bit lower. It might help though I doubt it will help much. (Don't know for sure because I don't use system notifications.) You can also control the volume of system notifications, so it's probably best to set PCM fairly high then bring down the volume for notifications and various applications to their best levels. How? I am sitting here with KDE 3.5.5 and can't find any such control. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na Go to kcontrol - sounds multimedia - system notifications Then, press the prefferences button at the right bottom corner, there you can set the volume, but only if you are using the kde sound system (arts), if you use an external player, I supose you can still pass the volume parameter to it in the same line, not tested though. Jesús. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On 25 October 2006 20:01, Jesús Guerrero wrote: Go to kcontrol - sounds multimedia - system notifications Then, press the prefferences button at the right bottom corner, there you can set the volume, but only if you are using the kde sound system (arts), if you use an external player, I supose you can still pass the volume parameter to it in the same line, not tested though. Thanks. I didn't notice the volume control because it was set to No audio output. :-( Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:31, Dale wrote: postgres postgres just works, i wont say is there any big difference compared with mysql. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
