Events on song change in Amarok 1.4

[Jeff Mitchell]

Johannes Niess wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've converted an outdated notebook into a remote controlled amarok player. 
> The system disk (with amarok and kde binaries and libs) has just 4 GB and a 
> high pitch noise, so I want to keep it spun down. The home directory of the 
> executing user (.kde, database, album pictures etc.) and the songs reside on 
> a quiet but slow 80 GB USB 1.1 disk. My amarok script uses espeak to announce 
> the song just started (without causing disk access on the command line). RAM 
> is limited (64 MB) on this box, but 20 MB remain as cache. Swap is off. 
> 
> I can't see why I get reading or writing disk access on the system disk on 
> each song change, spinning up the noisy drive. Could someone provide a short 
> walkthrough down the event chain on a song change (from script to amarok to 
> kde libs to loading other libs and to songs on disk?). I can't read the code 
> and I don't want to move the whole system to the slow but quiet USB disk.

My initial suggestion would be to try strace, and find out what file(s)
it's accessing.

Let us know :-)

--Jeff