Amarok buggy collection

ryan83vt · Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject: Amarok buggy collection

I've had this weird thing where I open amarok and my collection is empty. If I go into settings, my music folder is checked, but I can't get my collection to show up. Today I opened amarok and magically it started scanning for files and rebuilt my collection. But now when I play songs, it still says in "current context" that "This file is not in your collection!" Has anyone had this happen? I think I should just blow away my collection database table and settings... I don't listen to songs that often. And it's happened in the past where I would open amarok and my collection would be empty.

RageOfOrder · Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject:

It's happened to me before, but usually only after amarok crashed (which is usually caused by my computer locking up... which is usually caused by Beryl. lol. ). Either way, if a restart of Amarok doesn't work I usually just rebuild the whole collection, which takes a long time for 12,000 songs...
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Icer · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 395 Location: @home

I had similar issues today. I tried recompile but it didnt help. I had to drop amarok database in mysql. Too bad that the statistics are now lost. Well at least I got to keep all of the album art.

Btw, anybody happen to know if there is a way to automatically search for the album art for all albums instead of manually searching. I mean that the right click on cd cover and then search one by one is tiresome. For example ampache can automatically get album art for all albums.
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swooshOnLn · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject:

im not at my computer right now but I think under "Cover Manager" (or something to those lines) theres a "Fetch Missing Covers" or "Fetch Missing" button that does just that.
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Flameeyes · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject:

If you happen to be using k3b 1.0_pre versions, that is the culprit. Amarok 1.4.3 and later, and K3b 1.0_pre don't seem to like each other.
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Kaste · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:02 am Post subject:

I don't think that is the reson for me. I experience this problem since switching to mysql as the db backend which is a fair while ago and i installed k3b 1.0_pre only today so that must be a different matter.
Maybe this isn't related, but if i update a songs band or album tags the collection view is not updated anymore, not even after rebuilding the collection I think, although i hvae to check up on that again first.

pteppic · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 781

It's not a mysql upgrade issue it it?

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zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

Diego, can you possibly elaborate a bit on what the actual problem is between Amarok and K3b? I'm having some collection based problems in Amarok, exactly the same one as the original poster here and K3b just updated earlier today.

If you need someone to help with testing a possible fix, please let me know.

Robelix · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:14 am Post subject:

I also get always the "THIS FILE IS NOT IN YOUR COLLECTION!" in the Context-Tab. But the collection does not get lost.
And another strange thing: When I unset the cover image and grab a new one the Context-Tab shows the old one again. Everywhere else (Cover manager, drag'n'drop, OSD) I see the new one.

amarok-1.4.4 with mysql-5.0.26.
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swooshOnLn · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:03 pm Post subject:

and if your using mysql, its probally a good idea to backup your database every once in a while:

from the wiki:

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zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

Removing K3B and rebuilding the collection did not help. According to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155775, Amarok is having problems with the MySQL 5 update with even current SVN versions having problems. (Far more understandable than K3b causing a problem with it.) Because it looks like it's going to be a while before the problem is fixed, I'm going to switch back to using sqlite and I suggest you guys do the same until the problem is fixed.

Robelix · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:55 am Post subject:

I moved back to mysql-4.1 - and the "file is not in collection" problem is gone.

The problem with the cover images is still the same.
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Conan · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 360

Amarok still has some problems with 5.0.26, not sure when they will be fixed, no ones been doing any work on it in SVN afaik.

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Kaste · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:42 am Post subject:

I'd suggest you check wether you can really access those. I guess you changed your password or Amarok forgot about it or you lost permissions, or the mysql server wasn't started when you opened Amarok.

It took me a while to figure these out when they happened to me because the error is just reported in one of those little popup boxes and vanishes very soon. maybe start Amarok from console and see what it tells you when you start

Robelix · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:13 am Post subject:

I don't think it's a permission issue - if you drop the mysql-permissions for the amarok-db you'll get the Config-Wizard of amarok again.

It seems that using it with mysql-5 it can leave some crap in the db - I had some troubles with podcasts after the mysql downgrade. They showed up duplicate, had the same entries multiple times and were not deleteable in amarok. After removing them in phpmyadmin and recreating in amarok they work fine now.
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nahpets · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: