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(Update at the bottom.) Some people can’t be helped. Today I saw a post by The Linux Critic. In the post the author, Trent, says “I’m really not a fan of the new Amarok“, which naturally got me curious as to why. After all, if you don’t know what problems people have with your software, [...]
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This post is actually rather after the fact. I’ve been super busy, and my blogging tends to fall way, way behind when that happens. But I wanted to tell people about plans for Amarok Mobile, where things stand now, and what needs to be done. (And how you could help!) First off, I need to [...]
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Quite often — or at least, “often enough” — we get people that want to rescan a particular folder in Amarok. This is usually the result of them changing tags and wanting Amarok to pick it up. (Remember, for efficiency reasons Amarok watches the modified times of the collection directories, not the collection files, so [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I spent a long period of time looking at ways to increase scanning speed. Yes, again. I had written previously (here and here) on changes I’d made to increase the speed of scanning collections, and I’d made a lot of other changes that I didn’t write about. These certainly helped [...]
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As my regular readers — such as that may be, considering how rarely I post — may know, I’ve been doing all sorts of things to speed up scanning your files into Amarok’s local collection. I have some really nice news on that front: a few goodies that will be very useful to you, especially [...]
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And by that, I mean say goodbye to an historical (read: old) bug. I’d heard these whispers recently about “whenever I add or remove an album from the collection and do an incremental update, my collection gets messed up.” Okay — we’ve heard these whispers for a long time, but there were so many other [...]
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A bit ago I blogged about how Amarok File Tracking can now use MusicBrainz identifiers to do its stuff. Then, a little while later, I started getting bug reports of peoples’ music disappearing from their collection, and requested some of the reporters send me some files. One of the users did so, and I found [...]
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A heads-up: Amarok File Tracking can now use MusicBrainz track identifiers for its embedded IDs. This means people that have used Picard to tag their files but not amarok_afttagger can still get some embedded AFT goodness! It also enables an interesting "mode" because it essentially enables song tracking vs. actual file tracking (which you may [...]
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I’ve done some work in trunk over the past week that may have a huge impact on many of you Amarokers. Read on, and if you can do some benchmarks for me, fantastic. First, the schema/table changes. We’ve seen some issues where people have, for whatever reason, ended up with InnoDB tables instead of MyISAM [...]
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Yes, another one of my semi-habitual posts about AFT. Just a short one though. In revision 992942, I finally fixed a bug that has kept AFT working for the playlist in certain situations (although it had previously been working for both saved user playlists and statistics). This means that if you have a track in [...]
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