amarok issues

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi András,

Before answering any of your questions: could you please specify which
Amarok version, which platform and KDE version you are using? It's a
bit hard to give support if the basic elements are missing,

Regards, Myriam.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 13:44, András Csányi <sayusi.ando at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is my first letter to this list. I cant say that I'm a big Amarok
> user. I like the services of the Amarok, especially the lyrics part.
> I have few issues and I would like to get some advises, suggestions.
>
> First issue:
> I have a directory (300G) filled with music (~22.000 files) and it's
> growing. I set up this directory in Amarok as collection directory and
> I set up mysql database connection as well. This directory have
> already scanned few times by Amarok but the database is empty. Strange
> the database is already created by amarok but isn't populated. What
> should I do to achieve a populated and managed database by Amarok?
>
> Second issue:
> This directory is added to the playlist. I accepted that to adding to
> the playlist it took almost 10 minutes but hard to accept that every
> start of Amarok takes almost 10 minutes. As I saw at every start this
> directory is scanned. Why? This directory already managed by Amarok.
>
> My questions:
> - What is the advantages set up collection directory? To adding music
> to playlist is faster or Amarok starts faster?
> - What is the advantages of using mysql to store the collection data?
>
> Thanks for the answers in advance!
>
> András
>
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