I thought I had the answer to this, but I was wrong; I've Amarok 2.3 installed on Ubuntu 10.4, Gnome desktop. How do Iget the music files on my hard drive into my local collection? My files are in a foldee that is scanned by Amarok, and they show up under the files button, but my local collection remains empty.

Thanks

M

quick answer update to 2.3.1 http://www.kubuntu.org/news/amarok-2.3.1

also make sure all required packages are installed viewtopic.php?f=115&t=89166&p=164876&hilit=amarok+gnome#p164876

Thanks. I installed the latest version et al and received this error:

Amarok could not find any collection plugins. It is possible that Amarok is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:
$ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
$ su -c "make uninstall"
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` && su -c "make install"
$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
$ amarok
More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.

Which I simply don't understand. I think I am supposed toyuse the terminal to uninstall and reinstall.

Do you have the xine plugins installed?
to install: sudo apt-get install libxine1-plugins libxine1-all-plugins

fyi - the things you posted are for when you compile from source code

That has little to do with the collection plugins

Please run the following command in a terminal:

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

and try again. Also make sure you only have one Amarok version installed.

I installed the xine plug ins and now can see my local collection. I will probably do mamarok's suggestion tomorrow after I have had some time to polay with it

thanks for the help!

Well, if you have a running Amarok now, no need to do what I suggested