On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 17:19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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?
I had done that actually, and it completely *ignored* it until I killed all amarok processes and removed the mysqle directory (I think that was the name). Thankfully, I found this solution on some random blog somewhere that google pointed me to -- Douglas J Hunley, RHCT doug.hun...@gmail.com : http://douglasjhunley.com : Twitter: @hunleyd Obsessively opposed to the typical.
