amarok 1.4.4 doesn't scan collection in background

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slithy · Post by **slithy** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:33 am

When I upgraded from amarok 1.4.3 to 1.4.4, amarok stopped scanning my collection in the background. Now when I add new music to my folder watched by amarok, it doesn't pick it up and I have to rescan the collection manually, which takes a long long time. BTW I am on amd64 and here are my amarok USE flags:

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[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/amarok-1.4.4  USE="aac kde opengl -arts -debug -ifp -ipod -mtp -mysql -njb -noamazon -postgres (-real) -visualization -xinerama (-xmms%)" LINGUAS="-af -ar -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 -sk -sl -sq -sr -sr@Latn -sv -ta -tg -th -tr -uk -uz -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB

Anyone else have this problem?

KRF · Post by **KRF** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:47 pm

Have you enabled "Watch for changes (or similar)" in amarok's collection options?

slithy · Post by **slithy** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:16 pm

Yes I have...I changed nothing in the options during the upgrade from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4.

Darknight · Post by **Darknight** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:10 pm

In my case amarok does try to update the collection but the process hangs... I have to kill it manually :/

slithy · Post by **slithy** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:55 pm

I now using 1.4.4-r2 and it scans in the background now...not sure why it didn't before.

deadstar · Post by **deadstar** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:45 pm

Im having the OPPOSITE problem - amarok is PERMANENTLY "Updating collection". Goes from 0-100% and back to 0 again, indefinately.

Any ideas?

amontero · Post by **amontero** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:24 am

Amarok constantly scans my collection as well. It goes from 0 --> 100 --> 0 over and over again. Does anyone have a fix?

castor_fou · Post by **castor_fou** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:34 pm

deadstar wrote:Im having the OPPOSITE problem - amarok is PERMANENTLY "Updating collection". Goes from 0-100% and back to 0 again, indefinately.

Any ideas?

same issue here (and i have lost my ratings also.)

Robelix · Post by **Robelix** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:09 pm

It might be taglib.
Rebuilding taglib and amarok is always worth a try for collection scanning issues.

castor_fou · Post by **castor_fou** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:59 pm

Robelix wrote:It might be taglib.
Rebuilding taglib and amarok is always worth a try for collection scanning issues.

I added taglib in my package.keywords file, and rebuilt taglib and amarok but it unfortunately doesn't change anything

Conan · Post by **Conan** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:23 am

those of you that it keeps scanning
1) Amarok version
2) What database.

I know that problem exists in svn, but I dind't think it existed in 1.4.4

castor_fou · Post by **castor_fou** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:00 am

amarok : 1.4.4-r2
on mysql : 5.0.26-r1

Robelix · Post by **Robelix** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:12 am

castor_fou wrote:amarok : 1.4.4-r2
on mysql : 5.0.26-r1

Amarok has troubles working with mysql-5
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-51 ... marok.html

BigBaaadBob · Post by **BigBaaadBob** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:03 am

Conan wrote:those of you that it keeps scanning
1) Amarok version
2) What database.

1.4.4-r3 and whatever database you get with -postgres and -mysql. Just started.

Where is the database? Maybe I can just nuke that and start over?

EDIT: it is a squlite db in .kde/share/apps/amarok, and for me doing a rm -rf and rebuilding the db worked. Of course, losing everything related to statistics, etc...

amarok 1.4.4 doesn't scan collection in background

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