I messed up with my collection so that now appear some files that are actually not there anymore. How can I "delete" or "reset" my collection? I want to have Amarok just like it was when I downloaded it, without any mp3 in the collection, I will then proceed to add them.

Is there a way to do it? I tried unistalling and reinstalling but it loaded the collection as it was before.


Thanks

Which version of KDE/Amarok are you using?
With Amarok 2 just remove ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/ & ~/.kde4/share/config/amarok*
With Amarok 1.4 remove ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/ & ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc
But be aware that you loose all statistics, too.

Greetings
m0nk

I'm using Amarok 2.

Do I need to remove Amarok first? Also, should I remove the whole folder ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/ ?

And I don't understand what I have to delete in the second one ~/.kde4/share/config/amarok*, I go to ~/.kde4/share/config/ but there is no file "amarok*".

Thanks for your help.

There's no need to remove amarok, but close it.
Remove the whole folder. There's nothing worth to keep it.
The star is a so-called wildcard to remove all files starting with amarok.
There will be a file called amarokrc, perhaps amarok_homerc and amarok_appletsrc.
Remove them all and restart amarok. It should come up with the first-run wizard now.

Greetings
m0nk

Thank you very much. Worked like a charm Thanks again!

Amarok will not show me the option to select MySQL when I try to configure my collection - the screen has the folder tree and no drop-down window. I tried the deletions above to get back to the first run wizard, because I am trying to get the option back to use MySQL instead of SQLite. (My collection is very large.) I can USE a database named amarok form the command line in MySQL, my mysqld daemon is running, so I think I have MySQL set up ok.

Also: when amarok starts, a popup window has this message:

ERROR:Amarok
URL cannot be listed
file:///home/

Can anybody help me? I've tried completely installing & reinstalling & purging amarok, kde, and MySQL with no joy.

Versions:
Amarok 2.0.2
Ubuntu 9.0.4
MySQL 5.1.30really5.0.75  (? that's what it says in package manager ?)

Amarok 2 uses an embedded version of mysql as default. So there's no need to select it (, because it's the only database supported).