I have managed to get it so my music collection shows double entries for every song, is there anyway to delete all the songs in the collection and then rescan. It is very anoying because when amarok shows an album palying every song is shown twice.

I am using Amarok 1.1.1 on Kde 3.3.1

Any help would be appreciated

Hi,

You can delete the file /home/$USER/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db

I tried that when I rescan the music it just shows up twice again

there's Playlist->Remove Duplicates. Though obviously you shouldn't have to do that.

I have so far tried deleting the file reccomended by 3mor3j. The collection then vanishes but when you rescan to get the tracks again it duplicates them. So I have tried removing the program and then deleting everything in .kde/share/apps/amarok/
before reinstalling. The program reinstalls and rescans for music and again duplicates all tracks

I am very confused and any help would be appreciated, it doesn't stop me using the program it is just very annoying

PaleViper wrote:

I have so far tried deleting the file reccomended by 3mor3j. The collection then vanishes but when you rescan to get the tracks again it duplicates them. So I have tried removing the program and then deleting everything in .kde/share/apps/amarok/
before reinstalling. The program reinstalls and rescans for music and again duplicates all tracks

Also remove ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc.

If that does not help, I can only imagine it's some weird recursive symlink problem. We have protection code against that, but perhaps something went wrong. Try adding only some folders to your collection, and determine at which point the problems starts to kick in.

Thanks for all the help I have managed to resolve the problem although it is strange.

I keep all my music on a partition that I share with Windows so I can play it in Windows as well. Amarok seems to be seeing duplicates of all the windows partitions as C and c; D and d and E and e . E is the shared drive and it was looking at the music collection twice and thinking there were two copies of each song, unselecting all the folders for one of the letters sorted it out. I'm not sure if the double entries for the drives is a problem with my setup or Amarok. In Konqueror for example they only show up once.

I\'ve got a similar behaviour on two different pc\'s (Using Amarok 1.1). There the music was saved on a fat32 partition too. One of the pc\'s were a fresh mandrake 10.1 install. Then I played a few tunes (building the collection), closed Amarok, moved all the music files on the fat32 partition, opened Amarok, selected the new folders and did a rescan(nothing happened), closed Amarok, opened Amarok, did a rescan and my collection turned up, but with triple entries in the album lists.
Not much else has ever been done to that computer. It should be possible to reproduce that error.

Deleting the files mentioned in this thread helped me, though. Thanks.