Suggested Songs gets wedged on a single artist

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi!

I tried out the dynamic playlist suggested songs via lastfm. 

On my main Amarok machine - the one which is connected to my 
hifi-equipment almost permanently - after a few variations only entries 
from one artists get added. I tried at least advancing at least 10 tracks 
or so to test whether another artists is chosen.

On my "work" laptop I have Amarok as well with the same collection and 
almost the same configuration - well the database diverged a bit, as I 
copied it initially copied it from my older laptop, above Amarok machine. 
Here I get a bit variation of about 4 to 5 artists, but not more, 
although I have way more artists on my harddisk.

I have found a hint on whats going on there, but actually I do not really 
understand it:

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2006-December/002288.html

What is the playlist cache used for? I think I read somewhere, that there 
is a cache that holds 100-200 tracks for dynamic mode in advance to speed 
up changing to the next track. Is that the playlist cache? Why does it 
only contain the first artist and why is it used as a source for 
Suggested Songs? I thought it would be using my complete collection as a 
source to choose songs from.

Whats the exact issue there? Is there a work-around available? I would 
like to know this for my article as well, cause when there is a good 
explaination and/or work-around I'd like to include it.

This is with Amarok 1.4.7 on KDE 3.5.7 on Debian.

Thanks in advance for any answer ;-).

If that is a bug I can report it, if its not done already.

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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