On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21/06/11 09:52, he who wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net >> <mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net>> wrote: >> >> On 06/20/2011 07:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Unfortunately Aqualung has only a small subset of Amarok 2s >> capabilities. And I've yet to find anything that matches Amarok - it >> easily handles my 260GB music collection (53k+ songs (5130 >> albums) as >> well as lyric files, photos, music videos, and album art - auto >> display >> of Wikipedia entries for playing tracks - plugins for musicbrainz, >> dozens of extension scripts, and it's easy to write more. It >> uses mysql >> (or other) database and has extensive playlist capability. >> As an added bonus it crashes every time I shut it down :-( But >> nothing >> breaks, and nothing beats it. >> >> >> The music files are stored directly in a database? >> >> >> Just playlists and program specific information I believe. The music >> directories, files, their tags and any changes therein made by Amarok >> remain accessible by other programs. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Freeman >> > > > Yes. > The point, which I failed to make, is that I can modify the database to > suit my own requirements, without being restricted to the music > player/collection manager interface. Amarok doesn't alter the actual > files and happily works with files in multiple locations. > All the other music players that I've tried don't work well with large > collections and/or don't allow me to use musicbrainz. Amarok can > directly use musicbrainz but doesn't stop me from using Picard as well. > > The crash on closing I experience (Squeeze) may well be one of my dodgy > scripts - but as it doesn't reduce the functionality of Amarok I can > happily live with it. > > Cheers >
I just get random crashes, in squeeze with Amarok installed from backports. Crashes generally confine themselves to when I am crazy busy, switching lots in and out of the main playlist while editing genres and changing settings. (Not so much any more.) But I find that doing much rearranging with podcasts while playing same seems to precipitate crashiness. I don't have any of my own scripts. The one I have isolated as problematic is the moodbar generator. If I let it finish on a playlist, then turn it off in script manager, there are no problems and the generated moodbars remain. I've only had one crash where I lost data. And that was settings. When I re-edited the settings, everything was back. There is an issue with ID tags reassigning themselves. But they are slowly stabilizing with repeated re-edits. I think that is because files get added with a variety of tags that Amarok doesn't handle, so sometimes get saved from edits while still containing data that trips up Amarok. If necessary, I'll start going after them with a tag editor, kid3(?). I think the main playlist should be called the queue-list. Calling it the playlist confuses it with saved playlists. Speaking of multiple music directories, do you know of a way to set which directory Amarok imports music files too? It just uses the first (and main) directory I selected but I may need to change that. P.S. Hope this is in plain text.script -- Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktikwktkuzq7b80jxqjgrutpjtmu...@mail.gmail.com
