I recently upgraded from ubuntu edgy to feisty, but i was having extensive problems with amarok and a bunch of other things, so i decided to just reinstall. This time i decided to try kubuntu.

Anyways, I am unsure how i can restore my library, mainly my ratings, and other stuff that i customized over time. all i have is a copy of home, etc, usr and var, which I archived using sbackup. Can i simply copy paste the amarok files? the music in my library is in the same file path as it was before.

Hope I can get this recovered, thanks for any help

Alright, in your home folder, there should be an invisible directory called .kde. In there, navigate to share, then apps, and you should see a folder named Amarok in your backup. Copy-Paste in the same location in your current home folder. Put your music in the same place, and ENJOY!

yea, i saw that part from other posts, but when i copied the folders over, amarok becomes unresponsive, what happens is that it just keeps on updating the collection, as well as any open playlist, over and over again, nonstop and very slowly.

this is just like it was with the old feisty, which lead me to believe that my original problem was something that was changed withing amarok, even though this backup was from before i went to feisty.

so long story short, i need some way to transfer ratings, collection info, without anything else. I tried just copying over the collection.db. but then amarok refuses to open.

As a last resort, im hoping to find a sqlite viewer of some sort and manually update my ratings from the database.

any idea on what is going on?

It MUST be a bug in Fiesty. Thats why I haven't updated. I'm keeping Edgy because I can compile Amarok from SVN with now problems AT ALL.