Hi folks.

I am just trying to setup the collection within  Amarok 1.4.9.1 (Ubuntu KDE 4.1) No success.

Perhaps somebody can help me. I am wondering if I can generate a "collection" with following setup:

Directory looks like:

%Artist-%Album-%Year/

Filename looks like:

%TrackNumber-%Artist-%Album-%Title.wav

There are no spaces and weired characters.

I couldn't really find anywhere an explanation how it's supposed to work in general.

If I look in the "collection_scan.files" under ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok all my files seem to be in there.

the lines looks like:

/media/sda3/home/XXXX/music/Lyle_Lovett-The_Road_To_Ensenada-1996/11-Lyle_Lovett-The_Road_To_Ensenada-Christmas_Morning.wav

These lines are sometimes longer than 130 characters!

I already switched to MySql. Did not change anything!


Odd: Help/About: Is telling me Amarok 1.4.9.1 using KDE 3.5.9 ??  Do I have to better compile Amarok from sources for KDE 4.1?


THX

Nobody around who can get me a hint?

is all your music .wav ?

If so, they can't be added to the collection as wav files don't contain tag metadata. You can still play them in Amarok, via the "Files" tab, but that's as far as you'll be able to go.

THX a lot for giving me a hint.

Yes I am running .wav only.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a parser, which would extract the collection data from filenames and directories.

I mean. You fix your delimiter like I  did ( using -) and define your fields.

Hey we're talking Linux here right. That's one of the easiests task to accomplisch with a little script feeding the respective database fields.

Don't the developers plan something like that for Amarok 2.0. I read about some kind of new parsing function but as far as I recall the parser wasn't really 100% configurable.

Cheers

Use FLAC instead, it supports metadata.

Mark Kretschmann wrote:Use FLAC instead, it supports metadata.

Sounds like a real great solution. THX a lot.  Though I won't convert 600GB of wav to flac. 

So - what's the issue with the parser approach I mentioned. It can't be so difficult from a programming perspective.
I am not the only one being annoyed about the lack of reasonable tagging solutions for wav. Taking it from
a filename/directoryname is IMO a very nice solution.
 
I think Amarok would differntiate from others if introducing such a feature.

THX a lot