Hi!

I also have the problem of a failed import of my music ratings:
I upgraded from Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE3 / Amarok 1.4.9 to Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE4 / Amarok 1.4.10. (Amarok only made a minor tiny version upgrade). The kubuntu upgrade failed miserably, the upgrade command removed all my packages without installing new ones... It left me with a shell and I only could back up my home directory. I formatted and did a clean install of Kubuntu 8.10.
So I have ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/ and also ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc, so I think I have all that is needed for a successful restore of all my ratings (which I care extremely) and lyrics (which I do not care at all).

I remounted my music to the same location, restored both ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/ and ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc, and indeed,
* amarok 1.4.10 finds my files (but only if i select the directories in the tree-view again, it did not remember this!)
* amarok re-associates ALL covers with the albums
* amarok re-associates about 30% of all ratings, which is very WIERD. It does so album-wise, so either all tracks of an album have the correct ratings or no track does.

I rescanned the collection a few times and restarted amarok a few times as well, but the recovery rate of the rating does not improve (as some other authors in the forum suggest).

I read from other authors about rescanning over and over or just that it should work. I also read that some people edited the databases, but I have never done that.

Can sombody explain to me please step-by-step what I have to do to diagnose the problem and how to fix it, please?
Is it a possibility to (wait or install in parallel) use amarok 2.0 (beta 2) and its import feature of a 1.4 collection?

thanx, sulla

I checked the SQ Lite "collection.db" database of amarok (with a SQLite Editor), and under "statistics" every file has its rating, everything seems correct. The path names are changed somewhat, however.

Still, amarok displays only about 30% of all ratings. Hm... What could I do?

I also observe that most device-IDs have changed from 12 to -1 in my case.

and ideas anyone?

regards, sulla