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I tried some bold steps and finally everything works for me. No more crashes whatsoever. Note to self: once there is a major update, wipe clean the previous version completely. Can't test the CD problem cos I don't have a Music CD.

Wipe out your config and application layout and database.

mv .kde/share/apps/amarok/ ~
mv .kde/share/config/amarok* ~

You lose all your playlist, cover arts, etc... but Amarok works amazingly well again. You can try putting the config/database back one by one. Though I don't bet on that. Wipe config alone will not give you a functional Amarok you have to kill apps/amarok as well, like in my case, layout isn't remembered and new scanned tracks got weird random tag from random existing track.

Just tried this, and then used Amarok to play a music CD. Works! No crashes!!

Amarok wouldn't play the CD when launched from the Device Notifier (Play Audio CD with Amarok), but after closing Amarok, and with the CD still in the caddy, then relaunching Amarok allowed me to play the CD with:

Amarok > Play Media > Places > Audio CD > Full CD > [album name].cda (.flac, .ogg, and .wav are other choices).

I switched tracks - back and forth; allowed a track to finish and start the next; jumped to the end of the playing track all othe manner of manual navigation. Amarok played them all with nary a crash. Cool.

I figured out how, through the Device Notifier, to get Amarok to launch when I have inserted a music CD into the caddy.

The default Device Action for Play Audio CD with Amarok is written incorrectly. I deleted the bad .desktop file in /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/ and added a new entry (this puts the resulting .desktop file in ~/.kde/share/apps/solid/actions which I called Open Music CD with Amarok. This is what the contents of the .desktop file contains:

[Desktop Action open]
Exec=amarok --cdplay audio:/
Icon=amarok
Name=Open Music CD with Amarok
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=desktop_kdebase-workspace

[Desktop Entry]
Actions=open;
Type=Service
X-KDE-Action-Custom=true
X-KDE-Solid-Predicate=[OpticalDisc.availableContent == 'Audio' AND StorageVolume.ignored == false]

Works flawlessly (so far).

amarok amarok-common amarok-dbg amarok-utils libsmbclient libwbclient0 samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient

Dieter Schroeder wrote:So plz stop whining, check your setups and report it.

Dieter Schroeder wrote:Always thought this is the usability forum, better call it rant forum. Anyway, all the posters here should consider, that there are strangly enough amany working Amarok 2.3.x installation out there. So perhaps they/their distro (especially Sh++tbuntu) have problems with their setup/packages or they try cooking with amarok. I'm using SVN/GIT since amarok 2.0 and there was a lot of frustration in the beginning, but A2 evolved and it does now what 1.x did before for me and a lot more.
So plz stop whining, check your setups and report it. There will be helping hands, but not for the narrow minded.

m0nk
who is neither a fan nor in aany way involved in the development of Amarok