Updating Amarok's database

Jim Dean jdean55 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 04:31:56 UTC 2012


There are a number of amarok* files under .kde/share/config/, not sure if
renaming them will fix your issues but worth a try.

On 26 April 2012 14:20, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 18:30 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 11:53 -0400, Klaatu wrote:
> > > Have you tried  Settings > Configure Amarok > Collection
> > > Check "watch folders for changes"
> > > and
> > > "Scan folders recursively"
> >
> > [Kindly don't top-post. See the list Guidelines]
> >
> > Yes, I have both those already checked, to no avail.
> >
> > I restarted Amarok. Nothing.
> >
> > I rebooted my system. Nothing.
> >
> > I went to the Tools menu and did a Full Rescan. Nothing.
> >
> > Something about this is clearly broken. It may be my setup, but there
> > are simply no clues. I could of course zero out my config and start
> > afresh, and I guess I'll have to try try that as a last resort, but at
> > present my Amarok as installed does not do what it says on the tin.
> >
> > It might be time to switch to Rhythmbox. After all, I just want a basic
> > music player that can also send stuff to my phone. I suspect that's what
> > 90% of people also want.
>
> Just for kicks I tried zeroing out my Amarok config, i.e. I
> renamed .kde/share/apps/amarok and restarted the app. I then set up the
> folders to be scanned, namely a single tree below my Music folder.
>
> The console then filled with hundreds of warnings about kmimetype not
> understanding certain file types. The listed files appeared to be every
> single file in my account, not just the Music folder (presumably the
> latter didn't give errors but frankly I couldn't be bothered checking).
>
> Is there some other local config info that I failed to reset? If not,
> I'll just report this to Bugzilla and move on.
>
> poc
>
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