The collection scanner for Amarok in my distrubition, openSUSE (version 2.4 beta 1, with KDE 4.6 beta 2) is not working for me. I can manually add tracks from the built-in file browser and play them (although they don't show album art),
but when I set it to scan the same folders it always shows 0 tracks. It shows a progress bar for a few moments, but it never actually seems to find the tracks.

I tried removing my amarok-related config files and folders but this
didn't help. Anyone else having this problem, or know how to fix it?

There isn't much when I run from commandline:

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amarok(8870)/kdecore (KLocale): "Plural argument to message {Found one
direcory} not supplied before conversion."
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Properties::read() -- Could not find a valid first MPEG
frame in the stream.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Properties::read() -- Could not find a valid first MPEG
frame in the stream.


There should be over a thousand songs, but that is the complete output
I get when I run the scanner. There is nothing in .xsession-errors
related to amarok.

I can only tell you that after compiling from git under openSuse it ran ok until this week but then there were issues with the collection seeing only 25% of the tracks and the manual update of the collection never finishing until I did a full rescan.

Do you have an OBS repo with the git version available?

If you mean a full rescan from the collections config, that did not find anything. However, I tried amarokcollectionscanner from the commandline and it was returning files just fine. Is there a way I can use amarokcollectionscanner from the commandline to to overwrite my existing (or not-existent) collection?

edit: Nevermind, I found out how to do it, but it seems to be stuck in an infinite loop when trying to read the files in. It will read the file in, wait for a few minutes, then read it in again. I never get the option to "Finish".

no OBS repo - no idea how to, sorry

google01103 wrote:no OBS repo - no idea how to, sorry

It's really easy, primarily because you can copy the official packages and then modify them however you like. It is actually a lot easier than building sources yourself.

As for the issue, I found a more recent git version and that seems to have fixed the problem.