Bugs & Thoughts about Amarok 1.4.4

[Niklas Nylund]

On Jan 30, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Rich wrote:

> Niklas Nylund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> First of all, thank you for the best music player on Linux! I am a
>> longtime lurker on this mailing list and finally got around to write
>> this mail, Amarok is good but it could definitely be better. First
>> off I got a few bugs, if these are unknown maybe someone could give
>> me advice on how to debug them and give you more useful information.
>> Using 1.4.4 (Ubuntu packages) I've found the following,
>>
>> 1) Items are not removed from playlist when removed from the  
>> collection
>
> they should be marked as unavailable (greyed out). is that happening ?
>

No, they don't get greyed out in the playlist tab. Adding the  
playlist after removing a file results gives me a song with title,  
length and a question mark under bitrate. Double clicking it makes it  
greyed out in the main playlist.

>> 2) The UI is unresponsive when,
>> 	- updating collection
>> 	- editing tags (in any fashion)
>
> this has been made a background task (but probably after 1.4.4 ?)

Nice! Good to know it's getting fixed.

>
>> I suppose these actions are taken care of in a "worker thread" but
>> still there are noticeable effects (completely unresponsive UI,
>> equalizer stutters etc) on the UI when you edit tags, update the
>> collection or add files to the collection ("move files to collection"
>> from filetab).
>>
>> 3) The filelist does not always refresh after a delete, sometimes I
>> get a blank row and it doesn't disappear before I do a manual refresh
>>
>> 4) I got an album in my collection folder that isn't picked up by the
>> collection scanner. Restarting Amarok or rescanning the collection
>> doesn't help. How do I debug this?
>
> what filesystem ? does amarok pick it up if you 'touch' it ? what
> filetype are the files within ?

Odd, it picked it up after I touched all of the files. Anyway I'd say  
this is a bug since a "normal user" (whatever that is ;-) probably  
has no idea of what touch is and how to use it.

The files are on a Reiser partition and all files are Mp3s.

I am curios, does Amarok use polling or inotify to get filesystem  
events?

>>
>> 5) It would be nice if Amarok saved the main playlist and other
>> options (especially "Group by" setting in collection browser) every
>> now and then. I never close Amarok, I use it until it crashes and
>> thus also loses my playlist.
>
> main playlist can be automatically saved whenever a track advances  
> by a
> script now. that is not automated because of performance reasons  
> (might
> change if playlists are moved into the db)
> ...

Well, every say 10:th minute or so couldn't hurt the performance that  
bad.

Niklas Nylund


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