Hello,

I moved my Debian system to a new hard disk a few days ago, as I've done quite a few times over the years. Before performing the move, amarok had only one folder for its collection, /home/music, and the relevant section in amarokrc said (/home was a separate partition):

[Collection Folders]
3=./music

After performing the move, I left the system in the exact same way: same location for the collection, same partitions (just larger), etc. Yet when I started amarok, it seemed to have no files in the collection! Checked the collection settings dialog box, and surely /home/music was unticked now. Ticked it, and this time I got:

24=./music

Fortunately amarok had kept most of the statistics after I rescanned the collection, and I managed to salvage the moodbar calculations by renaming the .mood files. But now I'm left with the question: What are these numbers like 3 and 24, and why did they change when I changed the hard disk? /home is /dev/sda4 both before and after.

Thanks,
Vasilis

They are device IDs, used for the Dynamic Collection system. See here:

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Dynamic_Collection

Ah, thanks. Still doesn't really explain why the number changed though...