Hi Everyone,

This is my first post and I am completely new (about two weeks old) to Linux, music players in general and Amarok.  I will try to give all the necessary information to answer my questions, please tell me if more (or less) is required.

I have been setting up a cheap computer for a friend to use to play music in his restaurant.  He has about 50,000 songs although there are many duplicates as he has copied entire collections from various friends and never weeded them out.  I have installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron on an Acer Aspire M1201 with an AMD Athlon 64 bit processor, 512MB of RAM and two HDDs of 160GB and 320GB.

I have installed Amarok using the Synaptic Package Manager and this has installed V1.4.9.1.  I see from the Amarok web-site that the latest stable version is 1.4.10.

Should I upgrade to 1.4.10?

Is there and "Upgrade" button that I have failed to find or can I use Synaptic or do I have to download the tarball and follow the instructions to compile it?

Do I have to uninstall the current version before installing the new version?

Do I have to rescan the entire collection after upgrading or will the new version use the existing database?

Is there any information that would be lost in an upgrade?

All help gratefully appreciated.

The changes between 1.4.9.1 and 1.4.10 are very small, so upgrading is not really needed.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the advice, I will pursue a policy of masterly inaction!

Now I just have to work out how to meet my friend's new request to normalize 50,000 songs - I've a feeling he'll be twiddling that volume knob for a week or two yet...