Comments on: Speed Up Amarok With Large Music Collections

By: thrashnbash

thrashnbash — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:44:24 +0000

Mike,
I noticed the same thing on my system, the results were not stored in the DB. My collection isn’t huge, but its about 45,000 songs. Opening Amarok it was taking me 20 minutes (minimum) until I was able to actually use Amarok. It was just churning through trying to look for updates to my collection.

As I found out I had not quite followed the instructions to a T. Apparently I had a dumb moment. My username & password were correct. No issues there. I had however not correctly specified the DB name. Instead of specifying amarokdb, I specified it as amarok. Total screw up on my part. Once I went through the steps again I eventually figured it out.

My original install of Amarok/MySQL was on Hardy Heron. I’ve since moved the DB to a new install of Intrepid (about a month ago). No issues.

My suggestion (please don’t take offense to it) is just retrace the steps. Make sure you did everything as documented. Make sure the user you created for this DB has access to read/write to the DB, etc… I know its dumb stuff, but we all make mistakes.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:08:21 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I’m on Intrepid Ibex (desktop). I have a large music collection but I access it from my Linux server (also Intrepid Ibex). I use SSHFS to do so. I followed all of the instructions, encountered not one problem, yet when I rescan my collection, the results are NOT stored in the database. It takes forever to scan it, but it doesn’t store the results. I did the exact same thing using the SQLite, and it stored all the info about the music, but was SLOW. That’s why this tutorial looked like the perfect fix.

Any ideas?

By: thrashnbash

thrashnbash — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:46:47 +0000

This tutorial worked like a champ for me. Appreciate it. Love the work you are doing.

Just out of curiousity…. do you know a way to cleanup/remove the sqlite db that probably once existed for Amarok? Just looking to thorough and insure Amarok is really looking at my collection via MySQL.

Thanks.

By: Newbie

Newbie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:01:00 +0000

Worked great and is super nice, thank you

By: birre

birre — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:48:39 +0000

To Novice:
Mysql can be that stupid and refuse the use of password if the user don’t need any, but it can also be a mismatch.
It should work if you did as the example:
mysql mysql
GRANT ALL ON amarokdb.* TO amarok@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘amarokpassword’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

You must flush privileges after a change.

You can also set the password by hand if you as root run mysql and the database mysql
mysql mysql
update user set Password=PASSWORD(’amarokpassword’) where User=’amarok’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Then set the same password in amarok

By: Novice

Novice — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:49:20 +0000

I have an 80+ gig music collection and it takes Amarok a couple of minutes to load it each time. I found this and was stoked however I end up receiving this “MySQL reported the following error:
Access denied for user ‘amarok’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)
You can configure MySQL in the Collection section under Settings->Configure Amarok” from amarok when I try to use the MySQL database. Help please

By: birre

birre — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:35:29 +0000

>sudo mysqladmin -u root -pMyRootPassword create amarokdb

I don’t like to type passwords at the command line, even if it’s there so short time that someone can see it only by a miracle.

How to make it simple:
create the file /root/.my.cnf and remove rw for others and group.
touch /root/.my.cnf && chmod go-rw /root/.my.cnf
Add this:
[client]
host = localhost
user = root
password = ‘MyRootPassword’

Then just do mysqladmin create amarokdb
But one must do su – , not just su , or change $HOME to /root before calling mysql commands.

By: 1fastbullet

1fastbullet — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:32:46 +0000

You know, there are many times when trying to do something in Ubuntu that I come away feeling like a complete dumb-a**. Consequentally, it often pleases me when I see I am not the only one having a hard time with a proceedure.
This is one of those times.

By: Atreus

Atreus — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:27:52 +0000

Oh and I meant to add that your tutorial was very helpful
a few of the instructions didnt work for me either but then again like previously stated you dont need that line if you already put a password in and I didnt finish that last line but I just used user name as root when i setup amarok and it works great… once again thank you… if it wasnt for people like you then there would be alot of lost people and this operating system wouldnt be as popular as it is now

By: Atreus

Atreus — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:21:50 +0000

well you dont need to worry about sudo if you

sudo su

when you open your terminal