http://www.netvouz.com/narky/tag/amarok?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "amarok" on Netvouz http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/amarok_driving_you_nuts.htm I'm an avid music listener with genres pretty much spanning the whole gamut of music types. As such, it's been very frustrating to me that Amarok (a feature-rich music player) for about a month now has crashed every time I try to scan my collection. The "helpful" error message suggests that maybe "taglib " (a library for reading metadata from MP3, Ogg, FLAC, and MPC multimedia files) was responsible. Okay. After spending a few hours searching I discovered that this issue comes up often in relationship to problems with the SQLite (a simplified version of an SQL database engine) database Amarok uses by default. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:09:01 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=249442 If you feel up to it, I strongly recommend installing amarok from source. There are lots of things that don't work in the kubuntu version, one thing being automatic tagging. It's really not so hard to install from source, especially if you've already installed it via the package as most of the dependencies will already be met. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:05:45 GMT http://www.psychocats.net/essays/kdevsgnome One of the most common questions people new to Linux ask is "Should I use KDE or Gnome?" Unfortunately, the answers are usually useless--anything from "Just try each one to see what works for you" to "Gnome is much better." That said, selecting a desktop environment should probably be one of the last things you worry about as a Linux "newbie." Hardware detection, email set-up, etc. are far more important to day-to-day functioning than your desktop environment. It's sort of like just learning how to ski and worrying about the color of your skis--learn how to ski first! Also, most versions (or distributions) of Linux have a default desktop environment (for example, Blag and Ubuntu default to Gnome, and Mepis and PCLinuxOS default to KDE) Computing > Linux narky Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:41:15 GMT http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=80492&highlight=amarok+svn I've always had odd problems with the version of amaroK that came with Breezy and Hoary. It is also my favorite application on linux! For that reason I like to have the very latest version of it installed. The way to do that is to periodically build it from the latest SVN source. The amaroK community provides an automated script that makes the process fairly easy, but you have to install a number of development files in order to get it to compile. This how-to will walk you through that process. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:08:34 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288534 I was having the most difficult time in the world trying to figure out how to mount samba shares which were created on a Japanese windows 2000 server and transferred over to my replacement Ubuntu network file server. Nautilus mounted them fine, and displayed the correct folder and file names, but the files were not cashed which caused very slow response times, and I was having difficulty with my keyring among other things. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:02:05 GMT http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/topic,13094.0.html Hey, I just moved my music files over to another pc on the network, and set up a samba share and mounted it. I wanted amarok to be able to play these files. I add them to the collection and that's fine, but when I go to scan, after about 86%, it gives me a list of files that it couldn't process. Somehow this leaves me with about 3/4 of my music unable to be added to the collection. I checked the files and they do have the proper permissions, just like every other file in these folders. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:41:32 GMT http://www.fugitivethought.com/projects/amarokcompile/ Compiling amaroK from its source code is a tedious process. However, that is not to say that doing so is a bad idea. Indeed, a direct-from-source compile is necessary when your distribution lacks a package management system, has infrequently updated packages, or simply offers a package that does not suit your needs. Additionally, if you prefer gnome, xfce, enlightenment, fluxbox, or some other window manager and thereby do not use kde, getting amaroK functioning can be quite difficult. Indeed, I prefer the xfce or fluxbox window managers. Nevertheless, I endeavored to try out amaroK, and once I did, I must say I was quite impressed. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:51:02 GMT http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Samba Using Samba shares with Amarok. You have your music files on a remote computer, and you share these files via samba/windows file sharing. The shared files may be read only or writeable by you, and you have them mounted on your local filesystem. You can access the files just fine there and play them, but they cannot be added to the collection. Adding silently fails, is very slow, or music gets added but cannot be played. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:51:57 GMT http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok is a very nice media-player for KDE. It can also be used with Gnome and gstreamer. Amarok has some very advanced playlist and music collection management tools. Computing > Linux narky Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:10:27 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=211260 amarok issue over network & Is it possible to mount a smb windows share to a folder? Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:08:56 GMT