Hello, everyone,
      Here's my problem-- I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 and Amarok 1.4 (though I had this problem a few days ago using 1.3, I figured the upgrade might help).  When I go to browse my collection, I see only a folder called "Various Artists" and under that a handful of compilations (sountracks, etc).  This is ok-- this is my various artists folder.  However, that folder is in a folder called "Music" that has folders for "The Beatles" and then "A Hard Days Night" "Abbey Road" etc.  So even though my collection is set to read my music folder (recursively), and I've hit build collection a million times, only the various artists folder shows up.  Now, when I filter by album and not artist, I see all the albums by all the artists in my collection-- although they are organized alphabetically and there's no trace of the artists.  When I put the filter to artist/album, it goes back to the various artists thing.

    Also, I no longer have smart playlists and I can't make them.  So there's no way for me to add my entire collection and shuffle it.

Oh, and when I try to do things like look at Statistics or click on the "context" tab, it says I need to build a collection and that I don't have one.  I don't know what's going on-- it's looney tunes!  I'm sunk without Amarok!

My only guess is that maybe my music library is too big-- almost 11,000 tracks.  But I'm sure there are those of you with much bigger collections.

Any help is appreciated!
Luke.

Hey Luke,

Just to confirm... when you go to Conifgure Amarok > Collection > and then browse to your Music folder, is there a black checkmark in the main folder?  Is there an "X" in the box below which says "Scan folders recursively"?

Regards,
-Aaron

Yes, but I fixed it.

Here's what I did for future problems:
1) Logged in as root and deleted my entire Amarok directory.
2) Redownloaded the amarok engines.
3) Ran the "first run wizard"
4) Now it woks perfectly

Luje wrote:Yes, but I fixed it.

Glad to hear.

I'm going to look into that too, it loads my playlist, but instead of playing anything, it just scrolls through the list, and sends info to LastFM.  Also wont play any streams.
Output:
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
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X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
  Major opcode:  145
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
  Major opcode:  145
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
  Major opcode:  145
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
amarok: BEGIN: App::App()
amarok:  BEGIN: void App::fixHyperThreading()
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amarok:  BEGIN: DeviceManager::DeviceManager()
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amarok:      DeviceManager: getDevice called with name argument = init
amarok:      BEGIN: QStringList DeviceManager::getDeviceStringList(bool)
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amarok:    END__: Medium* DeviceManager::getDevice(QString) - Took 0.0077s
amarok:    DeviceManager:  connectDCOPSignal returned sucessfully!
amarok:  END__: DeviceManager::DeviceManager() - Took 0.02s
amarok:  BEGIN: EngineBase* EngineController::loadEngine(const QString&)
amarok:    [PluginManager] Plugin trader constraint: [X-KDE-Amarok-framework-version] == 25 and [X-KDE-Amarok-plugintype] == 'engine' and [X-KDE-Amarok-name] != 'void-engine' and [X-KDE-Amarok-rank] > 0
amarok:    [PluginManager] Plugin trader constraint: [X-KDE-Amarok-framework-version] == 25 and [X-KDE-Amarok-plugintype] == 'engine' and [X-KDE-Amarok-name] == 'void-engine' and [X-KDE-Amarok-rank] > 0
amarok:    [PluginManager] Trying to load: libamarok_void-engine_plugin
amarok:
amarok:    PluginManager Service Info:
amarok:    ---------------------------
amarok:    name                          :
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amarok:    desktopEntryPath              : amarok_void-engine_plugin.desktop
amarok:    X-KDE-Amarok-plugintype      : engine
amarok:    X-KDE-Amarok-name            : void-engine
amarok:    X-KDE-Amarok-authors          : (Max Howell,Mark Kretschmann)
amarok:    X-KDE-Amarok-rank            : 1
amarok:    X-KDE-Amarok-version          : 1
amarok:    X-KDE-Amarok-framework-version: 25
amarok:
amarok:  END__: EngineBase* EngineController::loadEngine(const QString&) - Took 0.14s
amarok:  BEGIN: void PlaylistWindow::init()
amarok:    BEGIN: CollectionDB::CollectionDB()
amarok:      BEGIN: void CollectionDB::initialize()
amarok:        [ThreadWeaver] Creating pthread key, exit value is 0
amarok:        BEGIN: SqliteConnection::SqliteConnection(const SqliteConfig*)
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amarok:        [CollectionDB] Podcast tables created and up to date
amarok:      END__: void CollectionDB::initialize() - Took 0.12s
amarok:      [CollectionDB] INotify not available, using QTimer!
amarok:    END__: CollectionDB::CollectionDB() - Took 0.29s
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
amarok:    BEGIN: Creating browsers. Please report long start times!
amarok:      BEGIN: ContextBrowser
amarok:        [ContextBrowser] Rendering showCurrentTrack()
amarok:        BEGIN: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction()
amarok:        END__: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction() - Took 0.85s
amarok:      END__: ContextBrowser - Took 1.5s
amarok:      BEGIN: CollectionBrowser
amarok:        [CollectionView::CollectionView(CollectionBrowser*)]
amarok:        BEGIN: void CollectionView::renderView(bool)
amarok:          current browser is not collection, aborting renderView()
amarok:        END__: void CollectionView::renderView(bool) - Took 0.0016s
amarok:      END__: CollectionBrowser - Took 0.34s
amarok:      BEGIN: PlaylistBrowser
amarok:        BEGIN: PlaylistCategory* PlaylistBrowser::loadPodcasts()
amarok:        END__: PlaylistCategory* PlaylistBrowser::loadPodcasts() - Took 0.033s
amarok:      END__: PlaylistBrowser - Took 0.29s
amarok:      BEGIN: FileBrowser
amarok:      END__: FileBrowser - Took 1.7s
amarok:      [PluginManager] Plugin trader constraint: [X-KDE-Amarok-framework-version] == 25 and [X-KDE-Amarok-plugintype] == 'mediadevice' and [X-KDE-Amarok-rank] > 0
amarok:    END__: Creating browsers. Please report long start times! - Took 4.2s
amarok:  END__: void PlaylistWindow::init() - Took 5.6s
amarok:  BEGIN: void App::applySettings(bool)
amarok:    [Scrobbler] Performing immediate handshake
amarok:    [Scrobbler] Handshake url: http://post.audioscrobbler.com/?hs=true ... =raven65az
amarok:    [virtual void BrowserBar::polish()]
amarok:    [void ContextBrowser::tabChanged(QWidget*)]
amarok:    [ContextBrowser] Rendering showCurrentTrack()
amarok:    BEGIN: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction()
amarok:    END__: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction() - Took 0.096s
amarok:    BEGIN: void CollectionView::renderView(bool)
amarok:      current browser is not collection, aborting renderView()
amarok:    END__: void CollectionView::renderView(bool) - Took 0.0018s
amarok:    BEGIN: Medium* DeviceManager::getDevice(QString)
amarok:      DeviceManager: getDevice called with name argument = dummyjusttorerundecop
amarok:      BEGIN: QStringList DeviceManager::getDeviceStringList(bool)
amarok:      END__: QStringList DeviceManager::getDeviceStringList(bool) - Took 0.014s
amarok:    END__: Medium* DeviceManager::getDevice(QString) - Took 0.019s
amarok:    BEGIN: EngineBase* EngineController::loadEngine()
amarok:      BEGIN: EngineBase* EngineController::loadEngine(const QString&)
amarok:        [PluginManager] Plugin trader constraint: [X-KDE-Amarok-framework-version] == 25 and [X-KDE-Amarok-plugintype] == 'engine' and [X-KDE-Amarok-name] != 'xine-engine' and [X-KDE-Amarok-rank] > 0
amarok:        [PluginManager] Plugin trader constraint: [X-KDE-Amarok-framework-version] == 25 and [X-KDE-Amarok-plugintype] == 'engine' and [X-KDE-Amarok-name] == 'xine-engine' and [X-KDE-Amarok-rank] > 0
amarok:        [PluginManager] Trying to load: libamarok_xine-engine
amarok:        [xine-engine] hello
amarok:
amarok:        PluginManager Service Info:
amarok:        ---------------------------
amarok:        name                          : xine Engine
amarok:        library                      : libamarok_xine-engine
amarok:        desktopEntryPath              : amarok_xine-engine.desktop
amarok:        X-KDE-Amarok-plugintype      : engine
amarok:        X-KDE-Amarok-name            : xine-engine
amarok:        X-KDE-Amarok-authors          : (Max Howell)
amarok:        X-KDE-Amarok-rank            : 255
amarok:        X-KDE-Amarok-version          : 1
amarok:        X-KDE-Amarok-framework-version: 25
amarok:
amarok:        BEGIN: virtual bool XineEngine::init()
amarok:          [xine-engine] 'Bringing joy to small mexican gerbils, a few weeks at a time.'
amarok:          [xine-engine] w00t/home/raven/.kde/share/apps/amarok/xine-config
amarok:          [xine-engine] gapless playback enabled.
amarok:        END__: virtual bool XineEngine::init() - Took 0.99s
amarok:      END__: EngineBase* EngineController::loadEngine(const QString&) - Took 1.1s
amarok:    END__: EngineBase* EngineController::loadEngine() - Took 1.1s
amarok:    BEGIN: void CollectionView::renderView(bool)
amarok:      current browser is not collection, aborting renderView()
amarok:    END__: void CollectionView::renderView(bool) - Took 0.0016s
amarok:    [ContextBrowser] Rendering showCurrentTrack()
amarok:    BEGIN: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction()
amarok:    END__: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction() - Took 0.12s
amarok:  END__: void App::applySettings(bool) - Took 3.1s
amarok:  BEGIN: ScriptManager::ScriptManager(QWidget*, const char*)
amarok:  END__: ScriptManager::ScriptManager(QWidget*, const char*) - Took 0.22s
raven@raven-laptop:~$ amarok: END__: App::App() - Took 10s
amarok: [ScriptManager] Loaded: amarok_live.py
amarok: [ScriptManager] Loaded: alarm.py
amarok: [ScriptManager] Loaded: graphequalizer
amarok: [ScriptManager] Loaded: playlist2html.py
amarok: [ScriptManager] Loaded: PlaylistServer.py
amarok: [ScriptManager] Loaded: Web Control
amarok: [ScriptManager] Loaded: Lyrc
amarok: [ScriptManager] Loaded: Default
amarok: [ScriptManager] Loaded: Impulsive
amarok: [ScriptManager] Auto-running script: Default
amarok: [ScriptManager] Running script: /usr/share/apps/amarok/scripts/score_default/score_default.rb
amarok: BEGIN: void CollectionDB::createTables(bool)
amarok:  [CollectionDB] [ERROR!] [virtual QStringList SqliteConnection::query(const QString&)]  sqlite3_compile error:
amarok:  [CollectionDB] [ERROR!] table admin already exists
amarok:  [CollectionDB] [ERROR!] on query: CREATE TABLE admin (noption VARCHAR(255), value VARCHAR(255));
amarok: END__: void CollectionDB::createTables(bool) - Took 1.4s
amarok: [Scrobbler] Handshake result parsed: challenge=F0A6A8EA6F049AE9071041FB1C19303A, submitUrl=http://62.216.251.205:80/protocol_1.1
amarok: [Scrobbler] Nothing to schedule
amarok: [ContextBrowser] Rendering showCurrentTrack()
amarok: BEGIN: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction()
amarok: END__: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction() - Took 0.13s
amarok: BEGIN: ScanController::ScanController(CollectionDB*, bool, const QStringList&)
amarok:  BEGIN: void ScanController::initIncremental()
amarok:  END__: void ScanController::initIncremental() - Took 0.012s
amarok: END__: ScanController::ScanController(CollectionDB*, bool, const QStringList&) - Took 0.013s
amarok: BEGIN: virtual void ThreadWeaver::Thread::run()
amarok:  BEGIN: virtual bool ScanController::doJob()
amarok:    BEGIN: SqliteConnection::SqliteConnection(const SqliteConfig*)
amarok:    END__: SqliteConnection::SqliteConnection(const SqliteConfig*) - Took 0.0027s
amarok:  END__: virtual bool ScanController::doJob() - Took 0.0048s
amarok:  [CollectionDB] JobFinishedEvent from Incremental ScanController received.
amarok:  [ContextBrowser] Rendering showCurrentTrack()
amarok:  BEGIN: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction()
amarok:  END__: void ContextBrowser::showIntroduction() - Took 0.14s
amarok: END__: virtual void ThreadWeaver::Thread::run() - Took 0.41s
amarok:  [ThreadWeaver] Job completed: CollectionScanner. Jobs pending: 0
amarok: BEGIN: virtual ScanController::~ScanController()
amarok: END__: virtual ScanController::~ScanController() - Took 0.0013s

any help is greatly appreciated.....this is AmaroK running on Gnome (Ubuntu) and installed in a local folder on my user acct.
Scott