Hello.

I'm new to Linux and installed yesterday the Kubuntu 9.04 beta.
Actually I'm pretty impressed by this operating system, but I've encountered some problems with Amarok.

I've imported my audio files and everything worked as planned. But as soon as I shutdown my system and restart it again, my whole local collection is gone. Allthough some of them are in my playlist, I can't play them.
I have to mention that my mp3s are stored on an FAT32 partition.

I hope you can help me with solving this problem.

Thank you

sapiant

Which version of amarok?
External/usb drive with mp3?
The more info, the better

Dieter Schroeder wrote:Which version of amarok?
External/usb drive with mp3?
The more info, the better

Hi,
I'm using Amarok in the version 2.0.2.
It's an internal hard disk.

Actually I've discovered that if I'm accessing the hard drive through Dolphin and type in my su-password, the files in my playlist are working again.
I've also tried out Banshee and allthough my collection is stored after a restart, I can't play these files either, unless I again access myhard  drive at first through the file manager.

Is this information helpful to you?

I see, that is a combined feature/bug from KDE 4.2/Amarok2, I only knew from USB drives. But ok, be sure to open the directory containing your music in Dolphin, BEFORE starting Amarok. I assume the partition is from Windoze, so it won't be mounted, even if it appears in the device applet. The device notifier only shows (plugged-in) devices, but doesn't mount them. So for Amarok your tracks aren't available and your database will get corrupted. (Solved in SVN, I think)
You can install an alternate device notifier, which automounts newly detected devices from here:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Ne ... tent=91517
or try to find a Ubuntu repo, providing this notifier.

You can test, if I'm right by logging out from KDE and logging in again. Now open the notifier applet (the one with the usb symbol on it). You'll see the vfat partition there. Open a konsole and type:
mount
You won't see the partition, because it's not mounted.

And of course you can mount the partition automatically on boot by using Ubuntu's systemsettings.

Greetings
m0nk

Dieter Schroeder wrote:I see, that is a combined feature/bug from KDE 4.2/Amarok2, I only knew from USB drives. But ok, be sure to open the directory containing your music in Dolphin, BEFORE starting Amarok. I assume the partition is from Windoze, so it won't be mounted, even if it appears in the device applet. The device notifier only shows (plugged-in) devices, but doesn't mount them. So for Amarok your tracks aren't available and your database will get corrupted. (Solved in SVN, I think)
You can install an alternate device notifier, which automounts newly detected devices from here:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Ne ... tent=91517
or try to find a Ubuntu repo, providing this notifier.

You can test, if I'm right by logging out from KDE and logging in again. Now open the notifier applet (the one with the usb symbol on it). You'll see the vfat partition there. Open a konsole and type:
mount
You won't see the partition, because it's not mounted.

And of course you can mount the partition automatically on boot by using Ubuntu's systemsettings.

Greetings
m0nk

Thank you very much for yor help.
But unfortunately, I don't know how to install the New Device Notifier. I've tried KDE tool for adding miniprogramms (or maybe it's called widgets, as I'm using the German version), but I'm always encountering errors when im trying to install mini programms. Maybe this prorgamm has to be run as root.
I haven't found a tutorial that's appropriate for installing this application. Most of the time these are reffering to a configure folder or an install file -- both of them ain't available in this application.
Do you know a manual how to install this programm?

sapiant

P. S.: Deinem Namen nach zu urteilen müsstest du ja auch Deutsch sprechen.

Richtig.
Ich meine, deutsch und du mußt root sein, bzw. unter Ubuntu über sudo, um Pakete/Programme zu installieren.
Den notifier gibt's nur als Quelltext unter der URL. Musst ihn also selber kompilieren.
Herunterladen-entpacken-in der Konsole ins Verzeichnis wechseln und:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde-config4 --prefix`
make
sudo make install
eingeben.
Am besten Zeile für Zeile mit copy und paste wg. Syntaxfehler
Wenn du auf die Platte/Partition sowie immer zugreifst, solltest du sie schon beim Booten einhängen. Das läuft dann aber über die Systemeinstellungen von Ubuntu.

Grüße
m0nk

Danke für deine Hilfe, aber ich habe es jetzt doch anders gelöst.
Ich habe die Festplatten direkt in die fstab-Datei eingetragen.

Sieht jetzt so aus:

UUID=B6C0D67AC0D63FF3  /media/grosse  ntfs    defaults  0  0
#
UUID=E06CBA1A6CB9EC02  /media/kleine  ntfs    defaults  0  0

Vielen Dank nochmal

sapiant