Hi

I use Amarok 2.2.1.90. When I enable a random dynamic playlist, Amarok chooses only about 10 different songs out of my 4000 songs collection and always appends only these ... is this a known bug or a local problem only for me?!

Did you enable any random action of the playlist + the dynamic playlist? That wouldn't make much sense since the dynamic playlist already is random. Combining two random algorithms that don't know of each other might well cause the system not to work.

Works fine here in 2.2-git, using for example a 100% random bias on the genre classical, I get a lot of different stuff, just letting it repopulate itself, basing the 10 next on the 5 previous which is the default setting. I do this all the time, rarely had the same track playing twice (which in an absolutely random pattern would still be random anyway).

No matter which settings I change, I always get the same 20 (or so) songs. When I play around with the dynamic playlist for a while, Amarok crashes ...

amarok --debug prints a lot like

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amarok:     [BiasSolver] [ERROR!] track is 0 in BiasSolver::getRandomTrack()

and finally

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amarok:     [BiasSolver] No collection filters, returning random initial playlist

The last messages before crashing are:

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QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 5 and type 'Read', disabling...
amarok: Fatal IO error: client killed
amarok: BEGIN: virtual CurrentEngine::~CurrentEngine()
amarok: END__: virtual CurrentEngine::~CurrentEngine() - Took 9.9e-05s
amarok: BEGIN: virtual ContextObserver::~ContextObserver()
amarok: BEGIN: void ContextSubject::detach(ContextObserver*)
amarok: END__: void ContextSubject::detach(ContextObserver*) - Took 2.2e-05s
amarok: END__: virtual ContextObserver::~ContextObserver() - Took 7.1e-05s
KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing...
sock_file=/home/tobias/.kde4/socket-skoni/kdeinit4__0

Even after deleting all Amarok related config files and a complete rescan of my collection, I get exactly the same results. When I query the same collection from my other machine (via NFS), the situation is also the same.

Ouch, are you sure you have 2.2.1.90? That looks like a regression then ...
Could you please file a bug on https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=amarok ?

Yes, I definitely have 2.2.1.90, built from the official sources vcia Gentoo's portage system. I'll file a bug, let's see what causes this

EDIT: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219431