I downloaded the 1.4.1 tarball from this site, and compiled it as per the instructions in the README. It didn't produce any errors but I can't seem to start the actual program. It doesn't launch with katapult saying "Service '/usr/share/applications/kde/amarok.desktop' is malformatted." and nothing happens when I click on the launcher in the taskbar. help!

Hi,
first of all and always:
Some infos about distro and kde version would be helpfull!
Now, have you tried to start amarok from console? Any output?

Greetings

m0nk

I didn't start this thread but I'm having the same problem on SuSE 9.3 w/ Amarok 1.4. I think it was happening with the original version of amarok but I upgraded hoping to fix the problem. No such luck.

Heres the output from console:

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Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
#> amarokapp: symbol lookup error: /opt/kde3/lib/libamarok.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZN6TagLib7FileRef19addFileTypeResolverEPKNS0_16FileTypeResolverE

Any ideas? I loved using this program and would like to get it back up and running.
Thanks!
Seth

Probably means it's linked to an own old taglib version, 1.3. Remove that.

Ha! That worked! Nice!