Amarok's lyric script isn't reliable

[Alessandro Colaci]

Binary package hint: amarok

- Kubuntu Edgy daily upgraded
- Kubuntu dapper with latest updates
- KDE 3.5.5
- Amarok 1.4.3

After yesterday updates, Lyrc script doesn't retrieve lyrics from data-bases. It's always stuck at 'fetching lyrics' till it crashes with the error shown below.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

I can confirm this as well

Edgy, KDE 3.5.5, Just updated Amarok as well with the current updates.

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

I'm also can confirm this bug.

but it affects also dapper.

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06
DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS"

ii amarok 1.4.3-0ubuntu8~dap versatile and easy to use audio player for KDE

[Bojan (dbojan)]

Same here.

Dapper, with all the updates. Amarok 1.4.2 (Xine engine). KDE 3.5.5. Same error message.

[Brandon Holtsclaw (imbrandon)]

unfotunately this is not a kde nor amarok bug, the website that hosts the lyrics is down ( http://www.lyrc.com.ar/ )

we ( as in amarok upstream and kubuntu ) are looking into some alternative scripts

Sorry for the trubbles

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

It appears that the only way to prevent a lyrics outage (similar to a power outage) is to have alternative scripts that access other websites, or to work with lyrc.com.ar and create mirrors or a load-balancing scheme to keep a single point of failure from bringing down the lyrics plugin.

How's this coming along?

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Is this problem still present?

[Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher)]

Closing as it seems to have been fixed by the website being availible again.

[onli (onli)]

Well, relying on one server maybe ain't such a good idea. Same problem occured at Hardy, the webseite is down for quite some time now. How about changing the default-script (lyrc is default, isn't it?) to something like Wiki-Lyrics? It's the nly one working I could discover.
A pity this hasn't been fixed properly the first time.

[onli (onli)]

Reopen because Problem still exist in Hardy and Intrepid

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Should work with Amarok 2.2 in Kubuntu 9.10.