This appears to have worked. I am still looking at whether everything is available, but a spot check of some of the albums that were not originally seems to have yielded success. Thanks Valentin.
Has anyone seen the other issue I posted about, that being moving tracks from the artist to "show under various artists" creates multiple entries in the database for the album, all containing duplicate tracks? Thanks, --b On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Valentin Pavlyuchenko <theva...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2010/1/6 B. Alexander <stor...@gmail.com>: > > Ever since I upgraded to amaroK 2.x, I have had a problem with the > > collection manager not seeing various media files, but it is only on one > > machine, but not on another that is almost identically configured. It > > appears that a good percentage of them are albums I bought off of Amazon. > As > > I said, this occurs on one box (defiant) but not the other (farragut). > They > > have more or less the same package lists and the same music on both > boxes. > > The main difference is that defiant's amaroK was upgraded from 1.x, and > > farragut was installed clean. > > > > I tried moving the collection.db and the collection_scan.files out of the > > way and restarting amarok, but it did not do any good. > > Yes, try to move out all amarok data from .kde. > Also, if it doesn't help, start amarok from a console with --debug and > look what it says when scanning collection. > > Best regards, > Valentin Pavlyuchenko > > > > > > > Another oddity. Many of the tweaks (like album art, tracks listed as > various > > artists, etc) didn't carry over from the upgrade. So I will check "list > > tracks under various artists" as I come to them. Well, in various > artists, > > each track creates a new album of the same title. As a for instance, I > have > > the Multiplication Rock album. The tracks were listed in the collection > > under the individual artists. When I would move them to various artists, > I > > would wind up with an extra Multiplication Rock album...For instance, > there > > are 11 tracks on this album. In my collection, I have 11 instances of > > Multiplication Rock, and each instance has 11 tracks. This is happening > on > > both machines. > > > > Does anyone have any idea what the cause is or what I can do to fix it? > > Should I get rid of the entire .kde/share/apps/amarok/*? > > > > Thanks, > > --b > > >
