2.2 -> 2.2.1 causes track loss in local collection

Myriam Schweingruber myriam.schweingruber at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 08:28:31 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:13, Christian Kreibich <christian at whoop.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Fedora 11 recently pushed out 2.2.1. With this update, a number of songs
> in my local collection have gone missing.
>
> The affected albums and artists are still shown in the collection, but
> their entries expand to nothing. The affected albums that were recent
> are now shown in the Albums applet as "0 tracks". The files themselves
> are sitting on disk as before. I have tried to update the collection, a
> full rescan, including touching the files to change their timestamps, to
> no avail. When I move the files away and put them back in place, Amarok
> finally sees them again, but this approach doesn't scale to the size of
> my collection since I do not know which songs are affected by the loss.
>
> I see the same loss problem on another machine that I recently upgraded
> to Fedora 12, which likewise ships 2.2.1.
>
> Pointers on how to fix this are very welcome.

Do a full rescan of the collection, then restart Amarok, that should fix this.


Regards, Myriam.
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