Hi,

i used to play my music with amaroK for the last years, but the last release is very unstable / broken / not usable.

i am sorry...

Why did you post this?
And why did you take on the burden to write something into this post?
Just posting without writing anything would be so much easier and wouldn't have any sense, too.
Btw.
Your other post: just search for ubuntu downgrade 1.4 on the Ubuntu forums.
You'll find the solution there.

Good night

i do not understand how this version could be marked as stable. i can't play any song with 2.02. that is the reason why i did post the two messages. hopefully they will invest more time in quality and not only in adding more features. i am not the first one who has problems with the current version, right? bugfixing should now have more prio than adding drag and drop features (btw: i hate drag and drop with my keyboard ;) ). if my package tool will ask me to upgrade to a newer version of amarok in the future, i am going to be very carefully the next time and wait what happens to the other users. sorry, that was a really bad release management.
maybe this report may help:

1. open amarok
2. select the collection tab.
3. type a band (that exists in my collection) => nothing happens, empty list after a long time waiting (AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+  / 4 gig ram)
4. clear search string, wait for the collection list for a few seconds to appears,
5 select *any* song
6. silence (no error message)

good night too.



amaroK crashed the first time while rebuilding the collection, but could not reproduce after apt-get remove amaroK and reinstall. but still not playing any song.
....too big and too unstable: using another player now. good bye. please let me know when amarok is usable again.

BTW: where can i get more audacious themes? perhaps a dark one?
i am currently listening a good old song from pitchfork, YEAH MUSIC...saved my day!

"Just posting without writing anything would be so much easier and wouldn't have any sense, too."

i like your posting, very funny...really!
i will give it a try...

As stated zillions of times:
Post your distro and amarok version.
Latest is 2.1
If you would use the search option, you would have remarked, that there are a lot topics handling with some buggy distro packages, like *ubuntu and 2.0.2.
So not everything (although still a lot ) is amarok's fault.
Latest version of amarok 1 was 1.4.*. So perhaps you should wait 'til 2.4?
Most people are using buggy commercial software (especially operating systems) for years. I respect the ability for suffering, really.
BUT software developed by volunteers MUST work flawless out of the box. That's for sure.
The priorities in developing amarok differs from my ideas, too. But that's not the point here.

And the errors you've enumerated can't be reproduced by me. Searching for an artist works instantly.
Typed artist:Genesis (to filter out albums/tracks) in the box et voìla.

m0nk

Hi, I too had this annoying problem: amarok wouldn't play my music.

I had just wiped out my old kubuntu and installed 9.04 with amarok 2.0.2 and kde 4.2.2 and found that my amarok wouldn't give sound.

I suddenly remembered that I hadn't installed mp3 support, which usually does not come by default with Kubuntu.  I did this in a konsole:

sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg

and could happily play my music with amarok again.

I believe to remember that amarok 1.4 (or was it the distro?) used to ask if you wanted to install mp3 support when you tried to play mp3 files without mp3-support installed. I think that was a good idea.



-bkv

bkv wrote:I believe to remember that amarok 1.4 (or was it the distro?) used to ask if you wanted to install mp3 support when you tried to play mp3 files without mp3-support installed. I think that was a good idea.

This was a good feature indeed. We're currently evaluating if we can bring it back in Amarok 2 (which uses Phonon), but I think it might be possible.