Hey i just got amarok 2.0, but I'm having trouble importing all of my music. When i go to add media, i can't select any folders only tracks and that would take -forever-.
I have around 40 gigs of music all centralized in one folder (sub folders with artists,ablums) and im looking for a way to just select my music folder to import or select all of the artists for import over time rather.

I tried just highlighting all the folders from the files are and adding the to local collection and i just got hundreds of boxes filling my screen until it shutdown the service because it got too slow or whatever.

Also how do you go about deleting music from the collection area?
Thanks

Depends on what you mean by "import".

If your music is currently stored in a location where you would like it to stay go to 'Settings --> Configure Amarok --> Collection' choose the  directory/directories where your music lives, click on 'Rescan Collection'

The 'Import Collection' button that shows in that same location brings information about the tracks in from another player or from Amarok 1.4. Don't know what all other players are supported, also not completely sure what is required before the import, I'm pretty sure you need to at least choose where your music lives, may or may not have to rescan the collection before import. Maybe some one else will chime in with that info.

If the music is stored on an external drive for backup purposes or whatever and you want to copy the tracks into a location Amarok is set up to recognize, I would use a file manager to copy the files, then rescan the music.

If you click on file in the lower left corner of the Amarok window, browse to the directory your music is stored and copy or move the music into your collection, that should work recursively.

If you choose to copy/move them and you have duplicates and didn't choose to overwrite the destination, that could lead to a bunch of boxes popping up if there are lots of duplicates.

If you choose to move the files and Amarok can't delete the originals that could cause some boxes to pop up as well.

If you want to delete the music, browse the collection, choose what you want to delete, right click and choose delete.

I have not tried deleting more than an album or three at a time from within Amarok so I don't know how that scales.

You can use a file manager to delete the music, possibly if you want to delete a lot of music, you might want to do that and then rescan the collection.

Later, Seeker

Some nice info, but I have set the location of my music folder in the settings and hit re-scan but nothing populates.
I've tried dragging the files from the directory within amarok (small sections) and that ends up crashing it. Quite problematic, I didnt have this trouble with the previous version. It's looking like I might have to revert, import all of my music, save the profie and then reinstall the newer one and import from that(spell hassle).

Got my list to populate, sadly i ran into another problem (hahaha) now theres no sound when i play music.

FLCL wrote:Got my list to populate, sadly i ran into another problem (hahaha) now theres no sound when i play music.

If you have looked at the mixer settings, mute, toggle the analog/digital setting, etc...

Try changing the sound server backend, if you are using gstreamer backend try the xine backend if you are using the xine backe try the gstreamer backend. 'Systemsettings --> multimedia --> backend'

Usually from what people report the xine backend is usually less quirky than the gstreamer backend.

If you had an older Amarok working and this is the same installation with an upgraded Amarok, I'm assuming all the required coded stuff is installed?

Later, Seeker