Either you have to try to actually try to get it to work and be a little flexible, or use a distribution that includes amaroK (like Kubuntu has the newest). Sorry.

thc wrote:

Yes, I\'m using foxytunes. Gotta inspect this. Thanks for finding the link for me!

After uninstalling foxytunes, amaroK has been super stable and enjoyable to use! So problem solved atleast for me.

/thc

Anyone willing to contact the FoxyTunes author, and ask him to fix his software? I think you can imagine that it\'s frustrating for us to get bug reports due to some buggy third party tool.

I just sent him an email.

Really it makes as much sense that FoxyTunes would crash the X Server as amaroK. Which is to say, it doesn\'t make any sense at all.

eean wrote:

I just sent him an email.

Really it makes as much sense that FoxyTunes would crash the X Server as amaroK. Which is to say, it doesn\'t make any sense at all.

Hi, this is the FoxyTunes author.
FoxyTunes version 1.1.1 that was released a couple of weeks ago should fix this problem. Please make sure that you are using the latest version.

And yes, I don\'t see a reason for a bug in FoxyTunes or in amaroK to crash the X Server

cool, thanks for solving this issue

regards,
muesli

I have also random crashes, i use it on gnome(ubuntu).
Often the amarok window crashes but the last song plays till the end, i use the xine engine. Its getting boring with the time.
THis can be be a very mighty player, maybe it should not depend on kde libs,
more a standalone app that brings its own libs with it.

lol, really... obviously you don\'t have a clue about programming and this statement is just insanely ridiculous.

...muesli

All i can say about this thread is that when you self-compile something, don\'t expect everything to be perfect.
Secondly, try to have the latest version of everything!
This includes kde, taglib, musicbrainz, gstreamer, xine and so on.. everything you compile in should be the latest versions (unless stated otherwise).

Also, if you compile yourself a amaroK, then please first remove the old amarokrc, and amarok dir from your home dir (this is not actualy necesary, but it reduces chances of getting a bug from an old databse or smth(we have a database version check, but hey, its best to be sure!))

And as a last thing, i can say that amaroK used to crash a lot, but lately it hasn\'t ( for me atleast... ) I think that some of the problems people get are from strange broken mp3s that they download from kazaa network or smth. Atleast i get sometimes strange freezes(probably from taglib, could be gstreamer also).

amarok had always been absolutely unstable @my systems
but i liked it a lot so i kept trying it every month
and since amaroK 1.2-beta3 it runs absolutely stable

big thnx

Along with some other Gentoo users, Amarok has been crashing at various points. (1.2.2 & 1.2.3) It always crashes when selecting \"rescan collection\"

So I rebuild with the debug option to see what the problem might be and it no longer crashes. (Hard to analyze if error doesn\'t happen)

Seems running with debug option helped other users too.
(http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-294735-highlight-.html)

Must be something extra defined in the debug code that is helping. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can check.

I\'ve just tested the cvs version of april 10th. Amarok still freezes periodically on track change using the xine or akode engine. This problem doesn\'t occur with the gstreamer engine, but it has other issues. The gstreamer engine stops playing for a second when the computer is busy doing something else (like deleting a line in the message i\'m typing right now) and on track change there\'s a gap (on some albums this is a big no no).

it wasn\'t amarok as such that was unstable - it was slightly older versions of taglib **** out on dodgy mp3 tags.

if you

tail ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection_scan.log

it will tell you which particular song it **** out on. it seems fine for me in recent releases though.

also, problems with xine-engine are usualy bugs from xine library.

Dude, did you read my original post (I started this thread)? \'Cause it sure as hell doesn\'t look like it.

* I had the latest everything.

* Amarok is the ONLY (and I repeat: ONLY) program that gives me this much ****, and I compile pretty much everything from source.