Hello everybody,
I am running amarok 1.2.3 on Debian unstable with KDE as a desktop manager. Since I don\'t like very much the built-in ability of ripping+encoding audio cd\'s directly from konqueror I prefer to use grip for this purpose. However grip saves the created mp3 in a ~/mp3/name-of-artist/name-of-album subdir that amarok seems not to consider: even if I add ~/mp3 to the list of directories where to look in for mp3 files and check the option \'recursively scan directories\' my collection is empty.
Is this an amarok bug or am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for any help

do you have

[x] Watch folders for changes

checked?

seb wrote:

do you have

[x] Watch folders for changes

checked?

Enabling or disabling that option doesn\'t change the behaviour, but I have discovered that the problem is maybe elsewhere. In fact I have noticed that what really happens is that amarok starts building the collection but never complete this task, the progress bar is fixed at 0% and top shows that it is eating 50% of cpu and memory. The problem diappears if I put all mp3 in the directory ~/mp3 and I disable the option "recursively scan directories", that I suspect to be the culprit at this point, but obviously in this way I cannot get the mp3 archived by grip because of the subdirectories structure it uses, and so I am forced to check manually all the subdirectories of ~/mp3, but doing so I obtain that artists and album appears as "unknown" to amarok...a real puzzle.

Very odd indeed.

Just to be clear, the issue isn\'t grip at all, its what I use.

As far as \'unknown\'... your mp3s do have id3 tags correct?

eean wrote:

Very odd indeed.

Just to be clear, the issue isn\'t grip at all, its what I use.

As far as \'unknown\'... your mp3s do have id3 tags correct?

Yes, you\'re right, the problem isn\'t grip, but it seems to be the "recursively scan directories" option, sorry if I didn\'t point it clearly; maybe it is a problem of the debian package, it would be interesting to see if it appears on other distributions too; I will try on a gentoo pc as soon as I will be able.
And for "unknown", yes, you\'re right, the problem was with the id3 tags, grip by default doesn\'t add them to encoded files.