Re: Amarok
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:01:49 Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote: Greets to CLUGgers Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login? It's an ordinary app, just a sound player for goodness sake. If anybody knows how to disable the need for a login I'd be very grateful to hear the secret incantation. What do you mean 'requires a login'? Do you mean the programme itself asks you for a username/password? Or do you mean it requires someone to be logged into X to run? Neither. Very recent versions of Amarok by default try to log the user into the last.fm service when the program starts. -- Quote of the login: Perhaps the biggest disappointments were the ones you expected anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Amarok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greets to CLUGgers Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login? It's an ordinary app, just a sound player for goodness sake. If anybody knows how to disable the need for a login I'd be very grateful to hear the secret incantation. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell This seems like an odd behaviour, try disabling the plugins that you don't use I assume this is amarok 2.x? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktyL30ACgkQGplaCYOFvyuUugCfaDqPPWe0Gp44m1Gw4VFFWOIa HlQAni0IoKZVRbomXL7wsV5e8fojXINY =DzZt -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Amarok
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote: Greets to CLUGgers Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login? It's an ordinary app, just a sound player for goodness sake. If anybody knows how to disable the need for a login I'd be very grateful to hear the secret incantation. What do you mean 'requires a login'? Do you mean the programme itself asks you for a username/password? Or do you mean it requires someone to be logged into X to run?
Re: Amarok
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 16:50 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greets to CLUGgers Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login? It's an ordinary app, just a sound player for goodness sake. I seem to remember seeing this before. I'm fairly certain it's not Amarok that requires the login - it is one of the Amarok plugins that you're using. For example if you have a Last.fm account you are using with Amarok then you can get prompted for that when starting Amarok... Try disabling any plugins requiring a login and see if it goes away..
Re: Amarok
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 16:50 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greets to CLUGgers Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login? It's an ordinary app, just a sound player for goodness sake. If anybody knows how to disable the need for a login I'd be very grateful to hear the secret incantation. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell No it doesn't... maybe you're being asked for itunes account details??? I found it so counterintuitive that I now use rhythymbox instead. Does what it says on the tin. Steve -- Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Amarok
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 16:50 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greets to CLUGgers Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login? See here: http://superuser.com/questions/64599/why-is-the-new-amarok-prompting-me-for-wallet-password-on-start
Re: Amarok
I recall (not having used it for a while) that if you set it to use MySql as the database, you have to enter credentials. maybe that's what you are seeing. That's not the default config though. But I would say that if you have a lot of music, it's worth using. - David On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.comwrote: Greets to CLUGgers Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login? It's an ordinary app, just a sound player for goodness sake. If anybody knows how to disable the need for a login I'd be very grateful to hear the secret incantation. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Amarok
All fixed now by removing all the selections to Internet services in the configuration widow. Many thanks to everybody who replied. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Amarok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Lowe wrote: I recall (not having used it for a while) that if you set it to use MySql as the database, you have to enter credentials. maybe that's what you are seeing. That's not the default config though. But I would say that if you have a lot of music, it's worth using. Actually Amarok 2 uses MySQL embbed by default -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktyPigACgkQGplaCYOFvyswzgCgiO6kyfudjR03YdiPAx/FOiqH 4d4AoIFIRhYPsJaOpSCnImeMopcVIcnU =KEtp -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: amarok won't run - mepis 6.5
It's not starting minimised in the taskbar is it? Or already running i the taskbar when you start it? On Thu, July 19, 2007 12:03 pm, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I initially had amarok running yesterday afternoon, however subsequent attempts to launch it usually yield nothing better than the splash screen. -- Nick Rout
Re: amarok won't run - mepis 6.5
On Thu, July 19, 2007 12:03 pm, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I initially had amarok running yesterday afternoon, however subsequent attempts to launch it usually yield nothing better than the splash screen. This is true regardless of whether I try launching via KDE menu or from the command line. Sometimes there are amarok processes left running that can be killed, but not always, and doing so doesn't resolve it. I have tried synaptic to uninstall and reinstall, apt-get to uninstall and purge and reinstall, all to no avail (this follows earlier having done apt-get update and apt-get upgrade). Via the command line I get the following, leading me to think there is a dependency issue - yet synaptic doesn't ask for any additional packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amarok Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amarokapp (splash screen for a couple of seconds then nothing) [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amarok Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp. kbuildsycoca running... DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. QLayout unnamed added to QVBox unnamed, which already has a layout kded: Launching previous backup analyse. QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow Amarok: [Loader] Amarok is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong? (splash screen displays until it is clicked) Anyone have any ideas? Looking harder at the above, running as root is unlikely to work unless root has permissions to use your X server, which is not usually the case. How it gets so far as to run the splash screen is unclear. Also the program is started with 'amarokapp', not 'amarok' - however running 'amarok' MAY have left some stray processes that amarok doesn't like. Log out of kde, restart kde and run amarokapp -- Nick Rout
Re: amarok won't run - mepis 6.5
Strange, now for some reason it started when starting from the KDE menu, at least it began the first run wizard where i tell it where the media files are located. Then nothing. The process table tells me that amarok and amarokapp (twice) are running. Normally I expect to see an icon in the taskbar, and I had not been seeing it today, nor am I now. So it does appear that it is running minimised - perhaps this has been happening each time - but with no apparent way of getting the window to display on the desktop! If I now kill the processes, and restart amarok, it will again give me the first run wizard, which can be finished, though there is no activity subsequent to this, the media location is definitely not indexed (no hard drive activity, it will normally take a minute or so as there is a large number of files to index) and the amarok window doesn't present itself, nor will an icon appear in the system tray. Nick Rout wrote: It's not starting minimised in the taskbar is it? Or already running i the taskbar when you start it? On Thu, July 19, 2007 12:03 pm, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I initially had amarok running yesterday afternoon, however subsequent attempts to launch it usually yield nothing better than the splash screen.
Re: amarok won't run - mepis 6.5
restarting has resolved this, and has also given me that vmware menu entry. thanks for the suggestion. Cheers, Roger Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, July 19, 2007 12:03 pm, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I initially had amarok running yesterday afternoon, however subsequent attempts to launch it usually yield nothing better than the splash screen. This is true regardless of whether I try launching via KDE menu or from the command line. Sometimes there are amarok processes left running that can be killed, but not always, and doing so doesn't resolve it. I have tried synaptic to uninstall and reinstall, apt-get to uninstall and purge and reinstall, all to no avail (this follows earlier having done apt-get update and apt-get upgrade). Via the command line I get the following, leading me to think there is a dependency issue - yet synaptic doesn't ask for any additional packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amarok Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amarokapp (splash screen for a couple of seconds then nothing) [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amarok Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp. kbuildsycoca running... DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. QLayout unnamed added to QVBox unnamed, which already has a layout kded: Launching previous backup analyse. QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow Amarok: [Loader] Amarok is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong? (splash screen displays until it is clicked) Anyone have any ideas? Looking harder at the above, running as root is unlikely to work unless root has permissions to use your X server, which is not usually the case. How it gets so far as to run the splash screen is unclear. Also the program is started with 'amarokapp', not 'amarok' - however running 'amarok' MAY have left some stray processes that amarok doesn't like. Log out of kde, restart kde and run amarokapp
Re: amarok won't run - mepis 6.5
On Thu, July 19, 2007 12:32 pm, Roger Searle wrote: Strange, now for some reason it started when starting from the KDE menu, at least it began the first run wizard where i tell it where the media files are located. Then nothing. The process table tells me that amarok and amarokapp (twice) are running. Normally I expect to see an icon in the taskbar, and I had not been seeing it today, nor am I now. So it does appear that it is running minimised - perhaps this has been happening each time - but with no apparent way of getting the window to display on the desktop! If I now kill the processes, and restart amarok, it will again give me the first run wizard, which can be finished, though there is no activity subsequent to this, the media location is definitely not indexed (no hard drive activity, it will normally take a minute or so as there is a large number of files to index) and the amarok window doesn't present itself, nor will an icon appear in the system tray. Flaky bloody kde crapola... After you start it, and the gui is not showing, what does: dcop amarok report? You could try deleting ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/ and let it start from scratch again. This WILL delete your amarok settings, so you might prefer to mv it rather than rmdir it ;-) -- Nick Rout
Re: amarok won't run - mepis 6.5
On Thu, July 19, 2007 12:50 pm, Roger Searle wrote: restarting has resolved this, and has also given me that vmware menu entry. thanks for the suggestion. Cheers, Roger good - just for reference did you restart kde or the whole computer? Linux shouldn't need this windowsy type of solution, but there a lot of interactions amongst apps running under those 'modern' desktops - its true of kde and gnome - and shutting the whole desktop manager is often the easiest way to resolve it. (God that sounds so MVPish). -- Nick Rout
Re: amarok won't run - mepis 6.5
restarted the whole computer. i realise i could have just logged out and back on. however since putting this installation on yesterday, i think it's only been restarted once so went the extra step just in case - there have been quite a few apt-get or synaptic sessions while i get to grips with the differences. this is the first time i can recall where a restart was needed to have a menu entry created. i live and learn. and am happy to have these 2 apps running well - they are must haves for me . . . Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, July 19, 2007 12:50 pm, Roger Searle wrote: restarting has resolved this, and has also given me that vmware menu entry. thanks for the suggestion. Cheers, Roger good - just for reference did you restart kde or the whole computer? Linux shouldn't need this windowsy type of solution, but there a lot of interactions amongst apps running under those 'modern' desktops - its true of kde and gnome - and shutting the whole desktop manager is often the easiest way to resolve it. (God that sounds so MVPish).
Re: amarok does not recognise mp3
my googling suggests the following: 1, ubuntu does not support mp3 out of the box because it is an encumbered format. That may be why amarok does not support mp3's in ubuntu. 2, I found a suggestion that wma does not get found because it does not support taglib, here it is in full: Second, IMO amaroK will not find wmas as they are not supported by taglib (not sure if this is still true). But you can insert them manually from the Files Tab to your playlist. http://amarok.kde.org/component/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,57/func,view/id,6651/catid,9/ you will, of course need the right codec to play wma, at a guess (confirmed by that link) it would be win32codecs - which i assume you have installed. Finally you will note that amarok has a number of USE flags, which affect what support is compiled in (gentoo here of course), check them out with : equery uses amarok If you want to change them edit the file /etc/portage/packages.use accordingly and re-emerge it. On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 22:03 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Greetings, I use amarok to play music. With the xine-plugin I can play most kinds of media (Actions - Play Media). Unfortunately when amarok scans my collection it only recognizes some of the media types xine can play. Under Gentoo it leaves wma out and under Ubuntu mp3 which is even worse. I could convert my whole collection to ogg-vorbis but my mp3-player plays only, as the name implies mp3. I am also short of hard disk space which is not unusual with five OSs on one laptop, so keeping everything twice is also not an option. I tried googling for it and had a look at some configuration file but could not find anything. Is there any way to correct this problem? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
