Amarok 2.4.3 Quirkiness or is it Just Me?

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 17:14, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded to Amarok 2.4.3 on my Ubuntu 11.04 box using the ppa
> by philip5. I'm using an external MySQL database which is finally
> working in 2.4.3 as I couldn't get it to connect to the db in earlier
> releases (a reported problem from what I saw). I've got the following
> issues that I can't seem to get working. Not sure if I just haven't
> configured things correctly or what.
>
> 1. I can't seem to get the lyrics plugin to work. It just shows a "Fetch Error".
> 2. The wikipedia artist info isn't working either. I just get
> "Wikipedia: unable to retrieve wikipedia information
> http://en.wikipedia.org"
> 3. Because of the two problems above I went to "configure amarok" and
> clicked on Scripts. The only items selected at this time are
> Lyricwiki, Cool Streams and Librivox.org. If I click on Manage Scripts
> I get an empty dialogue box and an error at the bottom "loading of
> providers from file: http://download.kde.org/providers.xml failed. I
> can browse to the file just fine.
> 4. I also can't get the Cover Manager to find any covers for the
> albums that don't have covers at this time. I will go through fetching
> the covers, but everything is reported as "failed."
> 5. I have some playlists in M3U format. How can I import them? I've
> tried adding the playlist directory to the amarok library and it finds
> the m3u, but if I update the tag of the file, rating for example, the
> track in amarok does not recognize the change. I don't really want to
> go through and completely recreate all the playlists.
>
> I've done some Google searches and that has not provided any working
> solutions to the above problems. I'm hoping someone else has seen
> these problems and knows of a fix or a change to my configuration I
> need to supply.

Please dismiss point 3. that is totally the wrong way and not related.

For the rest: these are all internet services, are you behind a proxy?
Apparently no information can be retrieved, so something is wrong with
your internet connection, not with Amarok.


Regards, Myriam

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