Amarok 2.4.3 Quirkiness or is it Just Me?

[newbie_linux]

i am facing the same problem. i am behind a proxy but when i used amarok with
kubuntu , it was working just fine but in ubuntu 11.04 its not working.

Bugzilla from myriam at kde.org wrote:
> 
> 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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