I'm using the latest version of AmaroK offered by K/Ubuntu.

I moved over my iTunes library from my mac and deleted all the DRM'd music and videos.  That leaves about 4,000 songs.  Those I then converted to Ogg using mp32ogg (with the -- verbose and --delete options on).

I launch AmaroK and left-click Collection.  I then select Add media and navigate to the Music folder in my home folder.  It seems to start just fine, importing about 59% of the media it found.  Then AmaroK seems to just .... stop.  Always at 59%.  Same behavior on Gnome or KDE.

Has anyone had a problem remotely similar to this one?  My next step is to break my music folder into smaller pieces and import those.

Your experience and advice are greatly appreciated.

EB

Try to start Amarok in a terminal to get output and track the problems.
Good luck!

Some of the tags on the songs might have special characters like ' or " or something like that. Check for such errors on the forum and see if it helps.