Amarok 1.4.2 collection scan fails

[Jeff Mitchell]

Have you tried doing a fresh SVN up?  There have been some changes recently.

Also, you should SVN up if you want ATF because until around yesterday, ATF 
was not safe (and there are still a few bugfixes left to do, but it should be 
safe now).

--Jeff

On Friday 25 August 2006 23:49, jesse keys wrote:
> Hi Florian.
>
> I had the same issues when upgrading to Amarok-svn. I posted in the forums
> but did not get any answer so here is my dirty workaround which might help
> you, too:
>
> mv ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok ~/temp
> strace amarokapp
> choose sqlite and build the collection (might take a while)
> quit amarok
> cp ~/temp/scripts themes albumcovers back to new amarok folder
> start amarokapp
> change db to mysql (collection rebuilds just fine)
>
> (http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/topic,12792.0.html)
>
> gute nacht ;)
>
> On 8/25/06, Florian Genauer <fgenauer at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I have used amarok 1.4.1 since a while now and I am quite lucky with it.
> >
> > Today I tried to use the shiny 1.4.2 but I was not able to scan my
> > collection.
> >
> > Some facts to my system:
> >
> > I am using Debian sarge - and thus I have
> >
> > ii  libtag1-dev    1.4-4
> > ii  libtag1c2a     1.4-4
> > ii  libtagc0       1.4-4
> > ii  libtagc0-dev   1.4-4
> >
> > installed on it.
> >
> > I compiled amarok successfully from source using the following configure
> > command:
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` --enable-mysql
> > --enable-debug=full
> >
> > When I start amarok, it starts to scan my collection, but suddenly the
> > scanning process stops giving me an error that taglib might be corrupted.
> > I
> > reinstalled my taglib packages, but the error still occures. Now I tried
> > to
> > figure out, wether the scanner has a problem with certain mp3 files, or
> > wether there might be another problem.
> >
> > I removed ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok and ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc and
> > started amarok again. Now I choosed only a subdirectory of my mp3
> > collection in filesystem - I have chosen one of the directory amarok
> > pointed me to in the previous error messages.
> >
> > And I was able to read in the whole directory - so it seemes as if amarok
> > collection scanner process has a problem. So I started the scanning
> > process
> > again on my whole filesystem subtree where my music files are stored.
> > After
> > the scanner process fails, I mooved the two mp3's away amarok pointed me
> > to, and started the scan again.
> >
> > It stoped again, but it seems to me as if the scan just came one step
> > further - it complained about the next two files. I iterated theis
> > procedure several times (of course with the same result).
> >
> > I have also tried this procedure with a selfcompiled libtag.so.1.4.0 -
> > but there was no change. I have also tried both SQLite and mysql - this
> > didn't make any difference.
> >
> > Please help me - what can I do to make the collection scan complete. If
> > you
> > need further information about my system - feel free to ask me.
> >
> > Florian
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