I removed the two real media files, which emerged in the collection scan report (see my post and screen shot above), from my collection folder. After that the scan was successful and it didn't crash anymore.
-- Amarok collection scanner is crashing during collection rescan https://launchpad.net/bugs/72390 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
