On Montag 16 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 16 November 2009 21:26:02 Doug Hunley wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:24, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? > > > > I haven't had any issues w/ amarok 2.2.0 and mysql 5.0.84-r1 (once I > > figured out how to get amarok to _not_ use the embedded mysql) > > That's a common complaint about amarok lately. The devs reckon they must > use multi-user mysql because it's almost impossible to get sqlite to do it > properly and totally impossible to get it to do it remotely. > > This puzzles me. How many users out their use their music player in > multi-user mode with a collection db on a remote machine? Apart from LTSP > installs, I'll bet it's none. And LTSP is better off using mpd, so why > didn't the amarok devs simply include mpd support? > > To answer your question, does Settings -> Collection -> enable check box & > fill in bottom half of dialog do what you want? >
there had been other reasons. Many people have huge collections - and sqlite sucks with huge collections.
