amarok sucks at importing large collections.

[paulwilson05]

Binary package hint: amarok

amarok sucks at importing large collections.

[paulwilson05 (paulwilson05)]

amarok sucks at importing large collections.

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

Hello paul

I'm sorry you're having problems with amarok's collection scanner. There was a change made to the Amarok 1.4.5 packages that fixes issues with this. Could you please try upgrading from the 1.4.3 you have now to 1.4.5? Also, how many songs are in your collection?

http://kubuntu.org/announcements/amarok-1.4.5.php

Let me know if you have any problems with installing 1.4.5

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

I have 11,000 songs in my collection. Granted importing/exporting and updating can be slow at times, but I have timed the same collection against (in order of the fastest)

1) Rythmbox
2) Amarok
3) iTunes

Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)
KDE 3.5.6

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

Richard: By chance, do you happen to have the times still available from those tests?

[PromoGest (m3nt0r3)]

After 10/02/07 update amarok "update" and "scan" doesnt works. It start scanning but stop after 2 or 3 seconds. collection.db on .kde/apps/amarok dir is 77kb
I confirm this bug

i use feisty 64 and sqlite like db backend

[paulwilson05 (paulwilson05)]

yeah, but 18,000 songs seems to lock it up. I think iTunes is better a
multitasking. It seems like Amarok likes to have its processes fall asleep.
And for some reason it doesn't like files tagged in the more modern version
4 id3. I will say that this current Amarok version is a lot more stable than
the last though! Now I just need a super efficient way of having it sync
with my ipod. Wouldn't it also be nice if instead of queuing what you double
click that it would just play what you d-clicked? I'm also going to have to
call for a less clunky interface. Think small, thin, light. The less chrome
and the more play list the better!

But overall, Amarok is right on track. And the magnatune applet rocks.

On 2/11/07, vete <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> After 10/02/07 update amarok "update" and "scan" doesnt works. It start
> scanning but stop after 2 or 3 seconds. collection.db on .kde/apps/amarok
> dir is 77kb
> I confirm this bug
>
> i use feisty 64 and sqlite like db backend
>
> --
> amarok sucks at importing large collections.
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/84173
>

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[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

You're correct, I bet Amarok does perform a bit poorly with 18,000 songs, since it's using the sqlite database backend by default. If you're dissatisfied with sqlite's performance, I'd recommend trying out mysql. There are instructions available at http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MySQL_HowTo#SQLite_-.3E_MySQL on how to convert from sqlite to mysql.

It'd be nice if the switch from sqlite to mysql could be made when a user's collection gets to a certain point just to increase performance. The only problem is the extra dependencies that would bring in. Just throwing ideas out there.

Let us know if you decide to try mysql.

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

The original crash report included in this report was a duplicate of another bug, this bug has been marked a duplicate of the original bug 87462.

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