amarok issues

[András Csányi]

Hi Myriam,

I'm sorry, I forgot these details.
I'm using gentoo amd64 linux, KDE-4.6.4 and Amarok 2.4.1.

On 3 July 2011 14:03, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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