- Amarok driving you nuts as you try to play music in Linux? (Dee-Ann LeBlanc: Linux at Work and at Play)
I'm an avid music listener with genres pretty much spanning the whole gamut of music types. As such, it's been very frustrating to me that Amarok (a feature-rich music player) for about a month now has crashed every time I try to scan my collection. The "helpful" error message suggests that maybe "taglib " (a library for reading metadata from MP3, Ogg, FLAC, and MPC multimedia files) was responsible. Okay. After spending a few hours searching I discovered that this issue comes up often in relationship to problems with the SQLite (a simplified version of an SQL database engine) database Amarok uses by default.
Amarok (a feature-rich music player) for about a month now has crashed every time I try to scan my collection. Finally, I found a solution.
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Note: Found in google by searching 'tablib amarok'. Haven't tried this yet but i'm hopeful! - Amarok TagLib errors - installing Amarok from source instructions - Ubuntu Forums
If you feel up to it, I strongly recommend installing amarok from source. There are lots of things that don't work in the kubuntu version, one thing being automatic tagging. It's really not so hard to install from source, especially if you've already installed it via the package as most of the dependencies will already be met.
Amarok TagLib errors General Help
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Note: Also check out SAMBA amarok wiki: http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/Samba - KDE vs. Gnome by A.Y. Siu
One of the most common questions people new to Linux ask is "Should I use KDE or Gnome?" Unfortunately, the answers are usually useless--anything from "Just try each one to see what works for you" to "Gnome is much better." That said, selecting a desktop environment should probably be one of the last things you worry about as a Linux "newbie." Hardware detection, email set-up, etc. are far more important to day-to-day functioning than your desktop environment. It's sort of like just learning how to ski and worrying about the color of your skis--learn how to ski first! Also, most versions (or distributions) of Linux have a default desktop environment (for example, Blag and Ubuntu default to Gnome, and Mepis and PCLinuxOS default to KDE)
A detailed comparison between Gnome and KDE
and between desktop difference gnome kde should the use whats which
in Computing > Linux - HOW-TO: Building amaroK from SVN source - Ubuntu Forums
I've always had odd problems with the version of amaroK that came with Breezy and Hoary. It is also my favorite application on linux! For that reason I like to have the very latest version of it installed. The way to do that is to periodically build it from the latest SVN source. The amaroK community provides an automated script that makes the process fairly easy, but you have to install a number of development files in order to get it to compile. This how-to will walk you through that process.
HOW-TO: Building amaroK from SVN source Faqs, Howto, Tips & Tricks
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Note: A dated if not useful guide on compiling Amarok from source for ubuntu. - Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs - Ubuntu Forums
I was having the most difficult time in the world trying to figure out how to mount samba shares which were created on a Japanese windows 2000 server and transferred over to my replacement Ubuntu network file server. Nautilus mounted them fine, and displayed the correct folder and file names, but the files were not cashed which caused very slow response times, and I was having difficulty with my keyring among other things.
Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs Faqs, Howto, Tips & Tricks
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Note: It would appear cifs is the way to go for me: "On Windows 2k/XP/Server shares it is important to mount them as cifs. cifs can handle much more files in directories and interacts better with the Microsoft software." -http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Samba - Collection Scanner Unable To Process Certain mounted SMB share files
Hey, I just moved my music files over to another pc on the network, and set up a samba share and mounted it. I wanted amarok to be able to play these files. I add them to the collection and that's fine, but when I go to scan, after about 86%, it gives me a list of files that it couldn't process. Somehow this leaves me with about 3/4 of my music unable to be added to the collection. I checked the files and they do have the proper permissions, just like every other file in these folders.
Official forum board for KDE
in Computing > Linux > Howto - Compiling Amarok from source - from Fugitive Thought by Steve
Compiling amaroK from its source code is a tedious process. However, that is not to say that doing so is a bad idea. Indeed, a direct-from-source compile is necessary when your distribution lacks a package management system, has infrequently updated packages, or simply offers a package that does not suit your needs. Additionally, if you prefer gnome, xfce, enlightenment, fluxbox, or some other window manager and thereby do not use kde, getting amaroK functioning can be quite difficult. Indeed, I prefer the xfce or fluxbox window managers. Nevertheless, I endeavored to try out amaroK, and once I did, I must say I was quite impressed.
in Computing > Linux > Howto - Samba - Amarok Wiki
Using Samba shares with Amarok. You have your music files on a remote computer, and you share these files via samba/windows file sharing. The shared files may be read only or writeable by you, and you have them mounted on your local filesystem. You can access the files just fine there and play them, but they cannot be added to the collection. Adding silently fails, is very slow, or music gets added but cannot be played.
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in Computing > Linux > Howto by 2 users - Amarok - rediscover your music
Amarok is a very nice media-player for KDE. It can also be used with Gnome and gstreamer. Amarok has some very advanced playlist and music collection management tools.
in Computing > Linux by 5 users - amarok issue over network & Is it possible to mount a smb windows share to a folder? - Ubuntu Forums
amarok issue over network & Is it possible to mount a smb windows share to a folder?
amarok issue over network & Is it possible to mount a smb windows share to a folder? Networking & Wireless
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in Computing > Linux > Howto - cifs mounted filesystem does not show files and directories
I have a Synology 106e (Firmware Version: 2.0.1 - 3.0368). I have created a share (data) on the Synolgy device. I mounted it on a Windows XP system and it works fine. I also tried to mount the share from two of my linux systems (Fedora Core 5 and 6), both with the same problem: It mounts the file system and I can read and write files to it but when I perform an ls (in a terminal) or use the graphic filemanager no files or directories are shown!
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Note: the answer to our prayers? - Linux CIFS Client - Advanced Common Internet File System for Linux
The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version 1.0 or later. Popular servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default. The CIFS VFS provides some support for older servers based on the more primitive SMB (Server Message Block) protocol (you also can use the Linux filesystem smbfs as an alternative for accessing these). CIFS VFS is designed to take advantage of advanced network filesystem features such as locking, Unicode (advanced internationalization), hardlinks, dfs (heirarchical, replicated name space), distributed caching and uses native TCP names (rather than RFC1001, Netbios names).
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Note: I think it's the official samba cifs page, check out the installation page. - Using SAMBA/CIFS to access Windows Shares
There are two ways of mounting your H: Drive (and other Windows file-shares from machines on the Princeton domain) * SAMBA * CIFS Both of these efforts are spearheaded by Samba.org (http://us1.samba.org/samba/), an open source implementation of the SMB/CIFS system introduced by Microsoft. (It's also possible to access the data on your H: Drive using other methods like SFTP, but that's another article.)
in Computing > Linux > Howto - Your bones got a little machine.: Amarok 1.4.4 on Ubuntu Dapper
A new version of Amarok, my favorite music player for Linux, has been released. This version boasts numerous bug fixes, and an nice interface to the Magnatune music store. Magnatune is cool since the full length tracks are under a Creative Commons license and are free to listen to. If you decide to support an artist you enjoy, you can buy downloads and choose how much you wish to pay. The artist splits the profits 50:50 with Magnatune, and you get uncrippled MP3/FLAC/Ogg files, which can be re-downloaded at any time if you loose them somehow. Since Magnatune operates like an enlightened version of a traditional record label, meaning they only select "high quality" artists ... they don't push loads of dross from self promoting artists that suck like the old
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