Hi guys
Beta looking good, love the lyrics widget!
Can I just check that there is no ipod or player device support in the current beta, and it's not something to do with the new mandriva not being compiled with libgpod (installed)?
If no support when is this likely to come in please, need to check if I need to go back to 1.4.
Kind Regards

Hi there! I'm a Mandriva user an Just want to say that the new Amarok looks great. There is just one problem... I don't know if this is a Mandriva 2009 problem or a Amarok problem. Some mp3 just won't play in Amarok. Other players don't have this problem with the same OS.
What can I do? 

Mandriva uses the GStreamer Phonon backend by default, which is pretty buggy from our experience. Try to install the xine Phonon backend and switch to it.

Thanks for the fast reply!!!
I can' try it jet but I will definitely  let you know what my results are!

greetz

Hell yeah!

That did the trick 
I've got my music working again!
:woot:

Amarok rocks!
Thanks a lot. I'll be using the program on a daily basis again!

I am a bit puzzled with this release...

I upgraded from Mandriva 2008.1 to Mandriva 2009.0 and amarok 2 was installed in lieu of amarok 1.4.10.

In version 1.4.10 there were many more settings available in the Configuration interface.  Especially, I am missing the mysql settings so I can access my large database which sits on a server...

Is there no way to configure that anymore?

Any clues will be appreciated!!

Please refer to my blog article:

http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/809 ... rok-2.html

Thx for the hint.

I did find the mysql script for importing data from 1.4 and added my server settings... but I don't really know if the application actually imported anything.

The other thing is that when I rescanned my collection all my albums that were sorted under various artists are now sorted by artist... How can I have Amarok respect the sorting by various artists if the files are in a folder called just that?

As far as I can tell, my mysql database used for 1.4 was not imported and I don't know how to explicitly tell Amarok to do so.

Any ideas?

Thx

I am about to give up....

These are the essential issues:

1. I cannot get my collection's data imported from the previous database (which is sitting on an external MySQL server)
2. Albums that I had sorted under Various Artists are now shown by their Author.  These are literally hundreds, so I don't see myself specifying for each occurrence that it should be sorted as Various Artists
3. Amarok monopolises my sound output so that I cannot talk on Skype or hear other media at the same time

Any hints would be very welcome!

Is there a place where I can read about migrating from version 1.4.10 to version 2?

The Beta 3 release (soon to come) will feature a database importer for migration from 1.4 to 2.0.

Thx for the info.

I think I will stick with 1.4.10 for the time being.  Reasons:

• Filters (added today, etc.)
• External MySQL database (I use the same database on different computers)
• Sorting (v2 sorts everything by author/release, etc. but does not automatically put releases with various artists under "various artists")
• More scripts available

Except, of course, if someone can help me obtain at least similar results with v2...

Cheers