Amarok 2 Beta

[Christoph Spielmann]

Hi everybody!

As a long time user of Amarok i've been watching the development 
progress of Amarok 2 with alot of interest. As the (first?) beta was 
released last week i decided to give it a go this weekend. I was 
positively surprised by the current state of the program. Almost 
everything worked out of the box without the necessity of interference 
from my side. For example last.fm-submission of my tracks worked as soon 
as i entered correct username and password), scanning of my music 
collection was quite fast and as far as i could see all my music files 
are there... Only thing i couldn't get to work was QtScript (neither the 
console nor the test script worked). When i start e.g. the 
Script-console i get this:

amarok: BEGIN: bool ScriptManager::slotRunScript(QString, bool)
amarok: BEGIN: void ScriptManager::startScriptEngine(QString)
amarok: BEGIN: 
ScriptableServiceScript::ScriptableServiceScript(QScriptEngine*)
amarok: END__: 
ScriptableServiceScript::ScriptableServiceScript(QScriptEngine*)
- Took 3.8e-05s
Object::connect: No such signal 
Playlist::Model::activeRowExplicitlyChanged(int,
int)
amarok: END__: void ScriptManager::startScriptEngine(QString) - Took 
0.00039s
amarok: BEGIN: void AmarokScript::ScriptImporter::loadQtBinding(const 
QString&)
amarok:      importing qt bindings  "qt.core"
amarok: END__: void AmarokScript::ScriptImporter::loadQtBinding(const 
QString&)
- Took 0.031s
amarok:   [ScriptManager] [ERROR!] Script Error: "18:52:36 Error: Unable 
to impo
rt qt.core: no such extension on Line: -1"
amarok: BEGIN: void ScriptManager::slotStopScript(QString)
amarok: BEGIN: void ScriptManager::scriptFinished(QString)
amarok: BEGIN: virtual ScriptableServiceScript::~ScriptableServiceScript()
amarok: END__: virtual 
ScriptableServiceScript::~ScriptableServiceScript() - Too
k 1.6e-05s
amarok: END__: void ScriptManager::scriptFinished(QString) - Took 0.00023s
amarok: END__: void ScriptManager::slotStopScript(QString) - Took 0.00028s

amarok seems to be linked to the correct version of libQtScript:

ldd /usr/kde/4.1/bin/amarok | grep Qt
        libQtCore.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 (0x00007f881c00b000)
        libQtNetwork.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtNetwork.so.4 
(0x00007f881baee000)
        libQtDBus.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtDBus.so.4 (0x00007f881b885000)
        libQtXml.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtXml.so.4 (0x00007f881b63e000)
        libQtScript.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtScript.so.4 
(0x00007f8817f3c000)
        libQtWebKit.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtWebKit.so.4 
(0x00007f8815e9c000)
        libQtOpenGL.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtOpenGL.so.4 
(0x00007f88132e7000)
        libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 (0x00007f8812404000)
        libQtSvg.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtSvg.so.4 (0x00007f88121b1000)
        libQt3Support.so.4 => /usr/lib64/qt4/libQt3Support.so.4 
(0x00007f880e306000)
        libQtSql.so.4 => /usr/lib/qt4/libQtSql.so.4 (0x00007f880d4c9000)

equery belongs /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtScript.so.4
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtScript.so.4 in *... ]
x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.1 (/usr/lib64/qt4/libQtScript.so.4 -> 
libQtScript.so.4.4.1)

Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong here?

For your information i'm using Gentoo/~amd64 here.

As some things were acting up a bit, i'll post the steps i took to get a 
working version of amarok2 here:

First i'm still using portage so if you are using paludis or any other 
package manager and something does not work, don't blame me. Second i 
assume that you know how to use layman. So here you go:

1. get kdesvn-portage overlay using layman.
2. emerge -pv amarok and add the masked packages to your 
/etc/portage/package.unmask
3. repeat step two till you are actually able to install amarok
4. emerge amarok (might take a while depending on the dependencies that 
need to be merged first)
5. install phonon-xine (i was NOT able to get sound working with 
phonon-gstreamer so i would suggest to use phonon-xine as this fixed 
almost all my problems concerning sound)
6. if sound is still not working (this means when you try to play a 
track you get the osd and the progress bar is showing activity but you 
don't hear anything) emerge kde-base/systemsettings, start it, go to 
sound setting and set everything to the correct alsa-device. Apply the 
changes and restart amarok now you should actually hear something (if 
not i don't have a clue what could be the problem because these steps 
made it possible for me to use amarok2)

So to sum up: The current state of Amarok2 is that it is usable (at 
least as usable as you a beta-version of a software-product could be). I 
haven't experienced crashes, i get sound , osd is working, the playlist 
works, the collection works, plasma-applets work (as far as i tested it).

Keep up the good work,

Christoph