Amarok 2.4.3 Quirkiness or is it Just Me?

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 18:07, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 17:14, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> I am not behind a proxy and the internet is working fine. I am able to
>> access http://en.wikipedia.org just fine from my machine.
>>
>> What other troubleshooting can be done to find where the connections
>> are failing then?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>
> In doing some testing I ran amarok in debug mode. I then went to see
> what was reported when opening a track. I got the following:
>
> amarok: [CoverFetcher] "Adding interactive cover fetch for: 'Enema of
> the State' from Google"
> amarok: BEGIN: CoverFoundDialog::CoverFoundDialog(CoverFetchUnit::Ptr,
> const CoverFetch::Metadata&, QWidget*)
> amarok:   [CoverFetcher] Queueing automatic cover fetch for: "Enema of
> the State"
> QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap
> QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap
> amarok: END__: CoverFoundDialog::CoverFoundDialog(CoverFetchUnit::Ptr,
> const CoverFetch::Metadata&, QWidget*) [Took: 0.059s]
> amarok: [CoverFetcher] "Queueing cover fetch query: 'Enema of the
> State Blink 182' (page 0)"
> amarok: [CoverFetcher] Finished with errors for album "Enema of the
> State" "[There was an error communicating with cover provider:
> http://ws.audioscrobbler.com]"
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Media Sources dock/BrowserDock) Negative
> sizes (117,-1) are not possible
> amarok: [CoverFetcher] Finished with errors for album "Enema of the
> State" "[There was an error communicating with cover provider:
> http://images.google.com]"
> QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Media Sources dock/BrowserDock) Negative
> sizes (117,-1) are not possible
>
> Yet on the same machine I can browse to http://ws.audioscrobbler.com
> (redirects to last.fm/api) and http://images.google.com
>
> So, this appears more than just "something must be wrong with my
> internet connection" as I can get to the web page that it is
> attempting to get to.
>
> Any suggestions as to what might fix this?

Instead of running Amarok from a user PPA, how about using the version
from the official Kubuntu backports-PPA? See also
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/amarok-243-berlin-released

It might be a problem with the package you are using.


Regards,Myriam

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