Comment 9 for bug 986179

Well, you can set up a MySQL server without the configuration dialog of Amarok, please have a look at the wiki page here: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MySQL_Server

Jonathan: the default is MySQLe, not an external server and it doesn't need any user intervention to set it up. While I agree with you that Amarok should give a warning and close instead of crash, this is really a corner case as it is due to a user configuration bug.