Reply to (Angus Prune) [From Dan (hydrogen)]

Mon Oct 30 11:48:22 UTC 2006

Well...do you speak German?

I did this post on a German message board...

http://www.dachboden-wg.de/portal/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=104&topic=18415.msg214235#msg214235

It explains some features at least!  ;)

On 10/30/06, amarok-request at kde.org <amarok-request at kde.org> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mark Kretschmann <markey at web.de>
> To: amarok at kde.org
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:11:34 +0200
> Subject: We need to choose a LiveCD artwork winner!
> Hey devs,
>
> see topic :) it's long overdue. Here is a wiki page that lists all contest
> entries:
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> http://rokymotion.pwsp.net/wiki/User:Apachelogger/Artwork
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> From: "Seb Ruiz" <me at sebruiz.net>
> To: "Amarok Mailing List" <amarok at kde.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:35:52 +1100
> Subject: Re: hald problems
> On 30/10/06, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
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> > It looks like libgpod might be relying on HAL...so if HAL is screwed on
> your
> > system there might be no way to deal with the iPods, period.Whilst
>
> Whilst I can't pinpoint the reason, I can say that libgpod does not
> depend on HAL. But this doesn't mean it might not still be the reason.
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com>
> To: amarok at kde.org
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:45:17 -0400
> Subject: Re: hald problems
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 10:49, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > From this:
> >
> > libhal.c 2213 : LibHalContext *ctx is NULL
> > libhal.c 2568 : LibHalContext *ctx is NULL
> >
> > It looks like libgpod might be relying on HAL...so if HAL is screwed on
> > your system there might be no way to deal with the iPods, period.
> (Martin,
> > can you confirm or deny this, in regards to HAL being necessary for
> > libgpod?) It may be easier at this point to back up your ~/ and /etc/
> > directories and start over with a fresh, non-upgrade install. And if not
> > easier, at least you'll be generally comfortable with the stability of
> your
> > system :-)
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> Looks like I was a bit premature.  When the ipod is mounted and hal is not
> active, everything in amarok is slow, but it works.  When no ipod is
> mounted,
> amarok works fine.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rich <rich at hq.vsaa.lv>
> To: Stuart Neill <stuart at neill.ukfsn.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:35:02 +0200
> Subject: Re: Collection Update
> Stuart Neill wrote:
> ...
> > Of what exactly, ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/ or collection.db or ?.
>
> at least ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc and ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/.
> you could reconstruct amarokrc, but better to have an exact copy.
>
> >> also, if you have a lot of tracks (usual advice is >10k), consider
> using
> >> mysql. it would be faster and probably safer.
> >
> > Well, I'm approaching that number and had intended at some point setting
> up a
> > small server to (among other things) hold my music collection:
> >
> > Is it possible when housing the database on another machine on the
> network to
> > allow a user to access and update their collection information on
> multiple
> > machines?
>
> hmm... well, yes. i don't know what would happen when several users
> simultaneously access the db (probably nothing when only reading
> information, writing could have some problems).
>
> additionally, there's a wish to allow specifying of a prefix for
> user-specific data (like scores, rartings, playcounts), which would
> allow several users to have single common part of db and their own
> personal data. this is not currently possible with mysql.
>
> > Do you know of any gotchas in moving to MySQL?
>
> i haven't heard of any huge problems and have migrated succesfully
> myself. of course, keep a backup of your previous data for some time
> until you are completely sure that the move ha been successful.
>
> and don't forget that in addition to amarokrc & amarok config directory
> that you backed up before you also have to back up mysql database.
>
> > (Bringing this thread full circle) is there a known method for
> preserving the
> > statistical information when migrating from SQLite to MySQL?
>
> well, that information you already should have :)
> --
>   Rich
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rich <rich at hq.vsaa.lv>
> To: Amarok Mailing List <amarok at kde.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:38:45 +0200
> Subject: Re: sharing the '.kde/share/apps/amarok' directory
> Greg Meyer wrote:
> ...
> >> 1 - In 'wayne:/etc/exports' there is:
> >>
> >> /home/musica    192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
> >>
> >> 2 - I moved my 'amarok' directory inside '.kde/share/apps/' to
> >> '/home/musica/.amarok'
> >>
> > You can't put a sqlite database on an nfs partition, it won't work.  You
> are
> > better off using mysql as the database, and then having only one
> computer
> > (yours) update the collection.
> >
> > Because the sql server should be accessible by anyone on the lan, you
> will all
> > share statstics and stuff.
>
> the problem would be unified cover images - i suppose that would not
> work, unless they are copied to the specific directories (unfortunately,
> copycover script still does not work for me with dynamic collection
> enabled)
>
> and yes, as is mentioned here, all users would have common statistics,
> ratings & playcounts. having a user-specific prefic for personal data
> tables would be awesome unless your family has a common mind ;)
>
> > The other oprion if you don't want to do that, is export the nfs share
> and
> > just let each local computer create it's own local database.
> --
>   Rich
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Angus Prune" <angusprune at gmail.com>
> To: "Amarok Mailing List" <amarok at kde.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:46:10 +0000
> Subject: Re: From Dan (hydrogen)
> Does anything like this article already exist.  I keep meaning to suss
> out what amarok can do with last.fm, but haven't foudn the time to
> look completely yet so I'm not sure *I* know what can be done.
>
>
> James
>
>
> On 28/10/06, Marcel Urech <stokedfish at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One thing that I mentioned before on the list, but unfortunately never
> > happened - you should publish an article on last.fm and present *all*
> that
> > can be done with Amarok when it comes to last.fm integration. Amarok has
> the
> > very best last.fm integration of all players out there but lots of
> people
> > still don't know about it...the last time some didn't like the idea
> ("who
> > checks the last.fm startpage anyway?") but now that there is the
> > dashboard... ;)
> >
> > So if someone could write an article about last.fm integration in Amarok
> and
> > the last.fm devs would agree to publish this on everyone's
> dashboard...that
> > would be awesome...  ;)
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