I have used amarok for a while now and I must say that I love it. It is my favorite mp3 player of all that I have used on both Windows and Linux. I do have one feature request though. It may be too specific to my situation and if that is the case, I understand. If this is the wrong place to post this or it has already been discussed, forgive me.

Anyway, I store all of my mp3\'s on an external usb hard drive. The problem I have with amarok comes when I go to play a song and for whatever reason the hard drive is not mounted. Amarok begins to cycle through each of my 2000+ songs popping up an error message for each. Usually it ties up my machine so much, I just have to restart X or at least switch to a terminal and manually kill amarok. I understand and appriciate the behaviour of amarok giving an error message if a file is not found, but it might be nice if there was some sort of counter that after say 10 or so failed songs in a row, it stopped trying to play so you could fix the problem. Like I said, I am probably a minority in the way I store my songs (which leads to this situation), but if it could be corrected, it would be great.


Thanks.

Preston

I don\'t store my MP3s on a ext. hard drive, so I don\'t know how this looks like. But, in e.g iTunes, it only displays a error for the current song (and a ! before the song). Something similar would be nice? (maybe only set a ! before the song, where ► usually belongs)

Just as a quck update, I fixed the problem for myself, but what I did is not a long term fix and probably shouldn\'t be done by anyone. I use the xine engine for playback and I use amarok 1.0.2 by the way. I commented out line 482 : [code:1]//QApplication::postEvent( xe, new QCustomEvent(QEvent::Type(3001), new QString(message)) );[/code:1] and recompiled. This just stops QT from poping up an error message for a missing song (and lots of other things actually), but in general solves my problem. Now, if my drive is not mounted and I try to play a song, amarok just scrolls quickly through each item in the listview until I hit stop. I no longer end up with hundreds or thousands of pop up error messages, so it really isn\'t a big deal. Anyway, that is a temporary fix for anyone else who has this problem. As I said above, this also prevents other error messages from popping up with could be useful (look at the switch statement
in the same file above the line I commented out for the messages you might be missing out on). Just thought I would share my progress. If I ever take the time to make a proper patch, I will post it here (or where ever the proper place is).

Preston

For some reason the code didn\'t show up (at least in my brower) . Here is the line of code to comment out/delete: //QApplication::postEvent( xe, new QCustomEvent(QEvent::Type(3001), new QString(message)) );

1.0.1 is a pretty old version.

eean wrote:

1.0.1 is a pretty old version.

I still use 1.0.2 because it works well and I have had nothing but trouble upgrading to 1.1 or newer. I use gentoo and like to stick with ebuilds so I haven\'t tried just installing straight from source yet. I read on the boards that there are some problems with the ebuilds and that is why it fails. If my problem has been fixed in a newer version, however, I will go back and try to get it installed again. Also, if you don\'t have a usb drive and you want to test my problem, just add a lot of mp3s to you playlist (1000+) and the move them to another location on your hard drive. The same thing should happen.

Preston

Sometimes I add a directory to the playlist, and then rename the directory. Seems like it just skips through all the non-existant files.

I didn\'t have any problem with the ebuilds myself. Some gentoo ebuilds had a bogus block with gstreamer, you can just edit and remove it.