I was thrilled to see that the ability to import collections is now available.  However, I am unable to do this.  When I try I get the following:

Could not open Amarok 1.4 database: Driver not loaded Driver not loaded

Now, I'll admit I don't have 1.4 installed any more, so that might be the problem.  However, seems that Kubuntu 8.10 does not allow both versions to be installed at the same time.  Is this a deal breaker? 

Same problem. I was using MySQL for 1.4 and have attempted to import, get the same error message.

Maybe it's a username/password/database name issue? Any pointers on how I check what the old ones were? I've tried umpteen combinations of my usual ones. I was using the following settings (I think - it was over a year ago I set this up):

    Hostname: 127.0.0.1
    Database: amarok
    Port: 3306
    Username: amarok
    Password: Your Password

Otherwise, I'm kinda hacked off I can't access my recent collection additions at all - Amarok 1.4 had this neat 'added to collection: today/ last week/last month/three months/year' and I can't find that functionality anywhere in Amarok 2. Grr. 'twas my most used feature and I'll be doggoned if I'm losing it! I mean, other than that minor gripe Amarok 2 is well funky.

You might have to install the qt-sql packages which are provided by your distribution. Please report back if this fixes the problem

Worked for me. Needed to install the sqllite qt driver (in my case).

Can I report back if it doesn't fix the problem too?

Checked I had pretty much every qt and sql package installed in Ubuntu and Kubuntu, they seem fine. I uninstalled and reinstalled 1.4, checked the MySQL settings, still get the:

Error: Could not open Amarok 1.4 database: Driver not loaded Driver not loaded
Failed: Unable to import statistics

Perhaps it's the port I've specified?

@adampope
no this is definitely because you are missing the qtsql plugins (specifically, mysql). On ubuntu (8.04) you'll need the libqt4-sql-mysql package.

Yay! Worked a treat. Not sure why that package wasn't appearing in my synaptic package manager, but I found it on teh internets and installed it, bingo (though all the text in Amarok mysteriously disappeared after I imported the data - I had to restart Amarok 2 to get it to appear again). Should make that package an Amarok 2 dependency anyhow.

Thank you SO much!  It worked (after restarting).  Cheers.

Hello,
I am experiencing a problem with that wizard, too
No matter if I try it on newest Windows build or on Linux (Beta 3), it always tells me
"Success: Imported 0 tracks" after choosing my collection.db from Amarok 1.4

Do I have to have a special package for this? I installed libsqlite3-0.

Thank you very much, Boni

I too get the "Success: Imported 0 tracks"  message with Amarok 1.94-11.6.  I have installed  the KDE4 sql and sql lite libs.  On the other hand I did a new collection scan and it was faster than the one I did with Amarok 1.4 (running under KDE 4.13) very much faster.  Still something is not quite right.

Chrazer

I'm getting the "imported 0 tracks" too. I tried Amarok 1.94 on OpenSuse 11.0 and KDE 4.1.3. Before launching new Amarok I deleted existing .kde4/share/*/amarok*, so that old setting of its wouldn't mess smth up.

Any requirements (Amarok-specific) for this to work, a'la "there must be no existing collection in Amarok 2" or smth?

same problem there. I'm trying to import the 1.4 collection (on Mandriva 2009.0 and KDE 4.1.3) and I'm getting the "Success: imported 0 tracks" message. The 1.4 database is a mysql base, I have all libs installed (e.g. libqt4-sql-mysql). Is there already a patch or a workaround?

Thanks.

Yes, the workaround is to wait until next release where this has been fixed

thanks for the quick reply. I was going to plunge into the code to once again find a couple of days later that the issue was fixed

@wpk: infact, I'd appreciate it if you could test svn trunk to see that it has been fixed for your particular case.