[SOLVED] Amarok Collection is empty

ambugua · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

So the situation is that I have no files showing up in my collection tab. When I try to expand an Artist on the Collection tab, I get nothing - it says its empty. When I try to queue and artist I get a message saying "Attempted to insert nothing into playlist" (this happens if I double click or right click and load)

The collection is there - it has been scanned correctly and there is a database file for it present (SQLite database). ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection_scan.files is present and has the right data in it. If I go to the Playlist tab, I can queue and play any file there - same thing with the albums that show up under the Content tab.

This happened recently after updating to Amarok 1.4.3-r1 and persists with 1.4.4-r2

didymos · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:31 am Post subject:

Have you tried renaming/deleting the collection file in order to force amarok to build a new db from scratch?
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ambugua · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

ambugua · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

OK, so the problem was solved after going over to #amarok and having a nice chat with the folks over there.

We worked out that the problem was in the amarok config, so I deleted both
~/.kde/share/apps/amarok and ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc and then started Amarok.

(I have a feeling that it was only the amarokrc that was giving me problems, since I deleted the amarok folder several times already.)

This sent me into the first run wizard, and after that everything was peachy.

Obscenity · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject:

I can confirm this

I deleted only the amarokrc file.
This happened to me after switching to a new computer (now using ~amd64).

ahubu · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject:

Having this problem too. However, I'm not going to delete my amarok collection (since it is still there, and I don't think anything is wrong with it). Secondly, deleting the amarokrc file seemed to solve the problem in first instance: however, when restarting amarok (without changing any of the default settings, except the location of albums + mysql settings) it is gone again. I read something about installing kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves without the hal useflag on the amarok forums, will try that next.

edit: remerging the kioslaves without hal did not work, updating world didn't work. Maybe rebooting (ugh) works...

edit2: rebooting (of course) didn't do it. I've tried everything, it's weird. Even when I'm using the method of deleting the rc file, while playing, the collection POOF - disappears. Spooky. Songs (in the playlist) still play, collection is accessible: only the context and the collection window stay empty. I'll try deleting (well, moving away) my collection, but I silently hope that won't solve it (for the sake of all my statistics).

edit3 [solved]: hooray, I solved it. When trying to remerging mysql I noticed it failed with an error on berkeley db. Remerging sys-libs/db did not work because it was masked (for openoffice 2.1 unstable, which I had not yet compiled but unmasked). Removing the sys-libs/db entry from package.unmask, remerging it and remerging mysql finally brought back my albums. So it seems the problem was packages that were compiled against eachother with different versions. A lesson I learned

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blueSceaDa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 90

Are there any other suggestions?

I use sqlite and nothing seems to help, of the suggested things. Now in 1.4.5 it even crashes seconds after being started...

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