I performed a new installation of Ubuntu Karmic Koala 64 bit about 2 days ago, and I have the same problem. So, like Peter, for me this bug is not fixed, and Amarok is unusable.
stiu@Dragon:~$ amarok -v Qt: 4.5.2 KDE: 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4) Amarok: 2.2.0
I performed a new installation of Ubuntu Karmic Koala 64 bit about 2 days ago, and I have the same problem. So, like Peter, for me this bug is not fixed, and Amarok is unusable.
stiu@Dragon:~$ amarok -v
Qt: 4.5.2
KDE: 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4)
Amarok: 2.2.0