Amarok slow to startup
 

Hi all,
I am running amarok 2.3.1 on kde 4.4.4 and have been having various problems
over the last 3/4 months.
Amarok stopped working after some world updates and the only way I could get it
to run was to delete the amarok folder in .kde4 and then restart amarok. This
works but of course I have lost all of the history, album covers,scores etc.
but at least I can listen to my music again. However, on startup I get the
splash screen immediately but the main screen takes 1min 14 secs to appear.
Any ideas?
Paul
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Amarok slow to startup
 

Paul Stear writes:

> I am running amarok 2.3.1 on kde 4.4.4 and have been having various
> problems over the last 3/4 months.

Who hasn't?

> Amarok stopped working after some world updates and the only way I
> could get it to run was to delete the amarok folder in .kde4 and then
> restart amarok. This works but of course I have lost all of the
> history, album covers,scores etc. but at least I can listen to my
> music again. However, on startup I get the splash screen immediately
> but the main screen takes 1min 14 secs to appear. Any ideas?

Well, for me it took around 7 minutes. But that has been fixed in 2.3.1,
it's about 40 seconds now. I cannot tell exactly, because after my
migration from 32 to 64 bit I have to import the MySQL database first, so
maybe it would take longer here, too.

Try runing it as 'amaork -d' on the command line and check the debug
output. In my case, Amarok was accessing all sound files being referenced
in playlists, and I had lots of them.

Wonko

Amarok slow to startup
 

Hi,

It takes 3 secs here with 2.2.2 and kde4

/JM

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:

Paul Stear writes:



> I am running amarok 2.3.1 on kde 4.4.4 and have been having various

> problems over the last 3/4 months.



Who hasn't?



> Amarok stopped working after some world updates and the only way I

> could get it to run was to delete the amarok folder in .kde4 and then

> restart amarok. *This works but of course I have lost all of the

> history, album covers,scores etc. but at least I can listen to my

> music again. *However, on startup I get the splash screen immediately

> but the main screen takes 1min 14 secs to appear. Any ideas?



Well, for me it took around 7 minutes. But that has been fixed in 2.3.1,

it's about 40 seconds now. I cannot tell exactly, because after my

migration from 32 to 64 bit I have to import the MySQL database first, so

maybe it would take longer here, too.



Try runing it as 'amaork -d' on the command line and check the debug

output. In my case, Amarok was accessing all sound files being referenced

in playlists, and I had lots of them.



* * * *Wonko





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Jean-Marc

Amarok slow to startup
 

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Hi.

On 16-06-2010 15:09, Paul Stear wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am running amarok 2.3.1 on kde 4.4.4 and have been having various problems
> over the last 3/4 months.
> Amarok stopped working after some world updates and the only way I could get it
> to run was to delete the amarok folder in .kde4 and then restart amarok.

I can't recall any trouble updating amarok since the 1.90 days up to
2.3.1-r1 (and 9999 and back). There is however an open bug[1] by a user
about the update to 2.3.1.

[1] - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324069

> This works but of course I have lost all of the history, album covers,scores etc.
> but at least I can listen to my music again. However, on startup I get the
> splash screen immediately but the main screen takes 1min 14 secs to appear.
> Any ideas?
> Paul

In the mentioned bug, the user reported he had only to remove the
following 3 lines from ~/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc to get amarok
working again.

[Session]
LastPlaying=5
Resume Time=316994

If you or anyone else has any more info to share, please add it to the
bug report.

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Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections
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