I want to use Amarok on both my Linux Mint desktop and Windows 7 laptop.

I successfully installed version 2.5 and was able to find my Music Network folder and play some music.

Next day I was unable to make Amarok start at all. I clicked on the icon and the circular symbol showed for a short period but no Amarok and it did not show up on Task Manager as a running program.

I reinstalled as Administrator but still it would not start.

Before I move on to the next alternative music player I would like to find out if any experts have any suggestions on how to start the program.

Regards

Ian

Can you please verify that no KDE processes (such as klauncher, kdeinit4, kded4 or others) are running before trying to start Amarok?

Kde was running as were
kioslave.exe *32 (Two instances)
klauncher.exe *

I stopped all processes starting with a k but program still does not start.

Hi,
for killing everything the better way is to open a console window (cmd.exe)
go to the bin installation directory of amarok and call "kdeinit4.exe --terminate" this will send kill signals to all running processes from the amarok bin directory.

(Logout / login is also always effective )

If that did not work download debug view:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... s/bb896647 start it and look at the output while starting amarok. This could give some decent information why it's not starting.

As you have detected I am not an expert!

I closed down the computer and restarted. I installed debug view and attempted to start Amarok and this is the output. Amarok did not start

[7504] Debug:KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[7688] Warning:QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
[3588] Warning:Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
[5284] Debug:kbuildsycoca4(5284) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: checking file timestamps
[5284] Debug:kbuildsycoca4(5284) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: timestamps check ok
[5284] Debug:kbuildsycoca4(5284) kdemain: Emitting notifyDatabaseChanged ()
[8004] Debug:QWindowsFileSystemWatcherEngine: unknown message '
[8004] Debug:QWindowsFileSystemWatcherEngine: unknown message '
[8004] Debug:QWindowsFileSystemWatcherEngine: unknown message '
[8004] Debug:QWindowsFileSystemWatcherEngine: unknown message '
[8004] Debug:QWindowsFileSystemWatcherEngine: unknown message '
[7504] Debug: QUrl( "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?api_key=&lang=en&method=user.getNeighbours&user=" )
[7504] Debug: QUrl( "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?api_key=&lang=en&method=user.getFriends&user=" )
[7504] Debug: QUrl( "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?api_key=&lang=en&method=user.getTopTags&user=" )
[7504] Debug: QUrl( "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?api_key=&lang=en&method=user.getTopArtists&user=" )
[7504] Debug:invalid udi detected "true"
[7504] Debug:invalid udi detected "true"
[7504] Debug:invalid udi detected "true"
[7504] Debug:invalid udi detected "true"
[7504] Debug:invalid udi detected "true"
[7504] Debug:invalid udi detected "true"
[7504] Debug:amarok(7504)/kdecore (services) mimeDataBaseVersion: Unexpected version scheme from update-mime-database -v: got "update-mime-database (update-mime-database) 0.71
[7504] Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Leonard.
[7504] update-mime-database comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY,
[7504] to the extent permitted by law.
[7504] You may redistribute copies of update-mime-database
[7504] under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
[7504] For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
[7504] "
[7504] Warning:QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
[7504] Warning:QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
[7504] Debug:amarok(7504)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
[7504] Debug:amarok(7504)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
[7504] Debug:amarok(7504)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
[7504] Warning:QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
[7504] Debug:amarok(7504)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
[7504] Warning:QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
[7504] Warning:QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.5'
[7504] Debug:**********************************************************************************************
[7504] Debug:** AMAROK WAS STARTED IN NORMAL MODE. IF YOU WANT TO SEE DEBUGGING INFORMATION, PLEASE USE: **
[7504] Debug:** amarok --debug **
[7504] Debug:**********************************************************************************************
[3980] Debug:trying to load 'kio_http'
[968] Debug:trying to load 'kio_http'
[7576] Debug:trying to load 'kio_file'
[7504] Warning:Expected node absent: topartists
[7504] Warning:QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method App::onWsError(lastfm::ws::Error)
[7504] Warning:lastfm::ws::Error
[7504] Warning:Expected node absent: friends
[7504] Warning:Expected node absent: neighbours
[7684] Debug:trying to load 'kio_http'

I may well not have followed instructions properly so please advise what I should do next.

I am very appreciative of the help.

I really don't understand why but without me doing anything new Amarok is now running and visible.

I can only apologise for wasting your time.

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