Hi,

Not sure if this is the correct place to report problems on Mac OS X, so I'll start with the main one. I just installed Amarok from MacPorts and it runs, but it has only scanned the first 597 tracks in my collection of over 3000. Using the 'full rescan' button makes no difference.

I observed the exact same issue when trying Amarok under Windows but under Linux it copes just fine with my collection. I'm new to KDE on MacOS so I'm not certain how to go about investigating. Indeed I haven't yet worked out how to start amarok from the command line in MacOS.

I installed the 'amarok' from MacPorts. 'amarok-devel' bombed out immediately claiming I don't have Phonon or qt installed.

It looks like MacPorts only has version 2.3.2 of Amarok, which is pretty old. There were a number of issues with the collection scanner in that version which have since been fixed. You can try running amarokcollectionscanner /path/to/collection from the command line to look for errors (it'll output XML information on the collection). Paths and/or tags with non-ASCII characters might cause issues if everything isn't consistently UTF8. I'm not sure there's much I can really advise other than updated versions beyond that.
I'd guess failure to find Phonon and Qt on the development version means that the versions of those you have are too old for the current version of Amarok.
I've heard rumblings about Homebrew as a replacement for MacPorts, but I don't know if its situation is any better.

Thanks. Homebrew only seems to have a few command line utilities available. I'll wait and see if the MacPorts maintainers port a newer version of Amarok.