Hi,
My amarok in arch linux is slow to startup. I saw a suggestion to run amarok like

"amarok --debug --nofork" and look for DELAY.

I saw these.

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amarok:     END__: MainWindow::MainWindow() - DELAY Took (quite long) 7.2s
amarok:     END__: void App::continueInit() - DELAY Took (quite long) 8.1s
amarok:   END__: App::App() - DELAY Took (quite long) 8.1s
amarok: END__: virtual void XmlParseJob::run() - DELAY Took (quite long) 9.8s                                                                       
amarok: END__: bool ScriptManager::slotRunScript(QString, bool) - DELAY Took (quite long) 5s
amarok: END__: void ScriptManager::slotConfigChanged(bool) - DELAY Took (quite long) 18s


I then disabled all the scripts but the remaining values remains unchanged and is still slow.
Is there any way to speed up startup ???

What version of KDE SC are you using? Have you installed the normal version or the KDE-mod version of amarok?

Have you tried reinstalling amarok?

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pacman -S amarok

Is there any way to speed up startup

Autostart in the advanced tab of System Settings lets you start a program automaticly when you boot but I don't think that would be smart in your case.

I am using normal version of kde. I was using kdemod few days back and then switched to normal one.
Both had same speed. I did reinstall amarok.

I have 3025 tracks in my collection. Could that be an issue.

The KDE SC I am using is 4.4 rc2 from kde-unstable. I am updating to 4.4 rc3 atm. Will report back if any improvements.

The speed was same when I using the stable 4.3.4.

jithin1987 wrote:I have 3025 tracks in my collection. Could that be an issue.

Possibly, but Amarok should be able to handle much larger collections.
I'm not sure my collection is much smaller at the moment (darn HD crash!)

I've noticed this as well. Amarok is really slow starting up, at least compared to any other application I've used, including other media players like Banshee or even Songbird. I'm using Amarok 2.2.2 and KDE 4.3.5.

Well, looking at this...

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amarok: END__: bool ScriptManager::slotRunScript(QString, bool) - DELAY Took (quite long) 5s

...it does actually seem that a script is causing the delay. Are you really sure that none of them are running?


Try to remove your Amarok config entirely once (after making a backup!):

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rm ~/.kde/share/config/amarok*
rm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok


I'm using Amarok 2.2.90 / KDE 4.4.0 and my startup time is 2 minutes 11 seconds (!!), which is about 2 minutes 10 seconds longer than it should. Previous version wasn't this bad even though it definitely took over 10 seconds as well.

Does someone know if this is a known issue? I'm using Amarok with a rather large collection over local gigabit NFS share, so that could be one reason. However, if there's some scanning going on in background, I'd expect that it would not block the startup.

Should I file a bug report about problems like this?

amppa wrote:I'm using Amarok 2.2.90 / KDE 4.4.0 and my startup time is 2 minutes 11 seconds (!!), which is about 2 minutes 10 seconds longer than it should. Previous version wasn't this bad even though it definitely took over 10 seconds as well.

Does someone know if this is a known issue? I'm using Amarok with a rather large collection over local gigabit NFS share, so that could be one reason. However, if there's some scanning going on in background, I'd expect that it would not block the startup.

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amarok --debug --nofork

...and look for "DELAY".

Indeed, sorry for not realizing there was already a tip for checking the delay in this thread.

It seemed that loading the existing playlists was taking a considerable amount of time, so I deleted all .m3u files. That dropped the startup time by almost a minute. Running with --debug --nofork now creates a respectable 3.7 megabyte log that includes the following delays:

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amarok:                 END__: virtual void PlaylistFileProvider::loadPlaylists() - DELAY Took (quite long) 9.1s
amarok:               END__: Meta::PlaylistList PlaylistManager::playlistsOfCategory(int) - DELAY Took (quite long) 9.1s
amarok:             END__: void PlaylistBrowserNS::UserModel::loadPlaylists() - DELAY Took (quite long) 9.1s
amarok:           END__: PlaylistBrowserNS::PlaylistBrowser::PlaylistBrowser(const char*, QWidget*) - DELAY Took (quite long) 9.2s
amarok:             END__: Creating browsers. Please report long start times! - DELAY Took (quite long) 65s
amarok:           END__: void MainWindow::init() - DELAY Took (quite long) 66s
amarok:         END__: MainWindow::MainWindow() - DELAY Took (quite long) 69s
amarok:       END__: void DatabaseUpdater::prepareTemporaryTables() - DELAY Took (quite long) 5.5s
amarok:       END__: void App::continueInit() - DELAY Took (quite long) 76s
amarok:     END__: App::App() - DELAY Took (quite long) 76s


Hope this helps!

I'm glad to report that today the Amarok startup time was suddenly down to 8.6 seconds. I'm guessing there might have been something fishy going on because of the recent update to KDE 4.4.0 or similar; it may be that the delay was not Amarok's fault after all.

I'll try to investigate more closely if this happens again. And thanks for the good work with the player