Amarok 2.4.3 Quirkiness or is it Just Me?

[Abhinav Badola]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:17 PM, newbie_linux <abihani at ymail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
To make Amarok detect proxy settings in ubuntu, you need to access the
proxy tool that is used by amarok. Even I was facing a similar problem
earlier.
This is what I did to make it work.

1. Download and install Konqueror.

Set the proxy settings of Konqueror. It will automatically get reflected to
Amarok as well.

Hope this would help as it did work for me in Ubuntu 11.10


> 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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Regards,
Abhinav Badola
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