amarok v. 1.4.10 release date 10/13/08
using ubuntu ibex.
googlelyrics2 script fetches lyrics just fine but the wikipedia tab does not work at all. when it does something, it just shows a list of "other languages" to choose from. clicking on any of them just shows another list of other languages, including english.

please advise.

i can confirm this issue on three machines i have with different linux distros installed
(slackware 12.1 / slackware 12/2 / debian lenny - amarok 1.4.xx)

clicking on "open with ext browser"works

...strange

i can confirm this on my box
running Linux 2.6.28-1.slh.1-sidux-amd64 x86_64 [ sidux 2008-04 Πόντος - kde-full - (200812222147) ]
amarok 1.4.10, kde 3.5.10

i have that same problem on amarok 1.4.10! does it concern to amarok 2 users?

I have the same problem with amarok 1.4.3 on eeepc 900 with default xandros installed.
keep up the good work, tnx!

Can also confirm that the Wikipedia Artist tab does not work with 1.4.10 and KDE 3.5.10. Cannot pinpoint at which point it stopped working. Would like to get it working again as I really like the feature.

This bug, at least for older versions of Amarok will probably have to be fixed at the distribution level, as the distro will need to recompile their binaries for what ever earlier version of Amarok used.

I filed a bug report with Debian explaining this behavior. You can read it here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512602

Or you can try to compile the source code, which was an interesting challenge in its own right.

Lee

I'm hitting this bug on Debian Lenny/testing as well

amarok 1.4.10-2

Annoying even though I don't use the feature that often. The fix seems relatively easy for a maintainer to implement.

The explanation:

Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't provide an API so we have to read the HTML code directly from the website. Screen scraping is not reliable when they change their design and that's what happened. Would really be nice to have an API, so don't hesitate to ask Wikipedia to provide one to avoid these problems in the future.

The solution:

There is a fix for it in SVN, ask your distribution to build a package for you!

Is there a bug number for the fix in SVN? A URL to the bug and/or fix?
There is a bug on this in Ubuntu Launchpad, and I'm sure they are interested in all upstream info. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/316140

Here's the patch:


M  +1 -1      contextbrowser.cpp


--- branches/stable/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp #917749:917750
@@ -4189,7 +4189,7 @@
    }

    // Ok lets remove the top and bottom parts of the page
-    m_wiki = m_wiki.mid( m_wiki.find( "

" ) );
+    m_wiki = m_wiki.mid( m_wiki.find( "

    m_wiki = m_wiki.mid( 0, m_wiki.find( "

---