I just installed the new amarok 2.5 from kde updated apps repository. I have 2 issues with it:
fetch fonts is broken. It seems that after the install, there was no longer a script installed to fetch the fonts. I then tried to install the ultimate lyrics script, and now amarok is trying to fetch the lyrics during playback. But it never finds any, and my mp3 tags are filled in ok. This was no problem in amarok 2.4
video applet is still broken. When I click on a youtube video it goes straight to the next song in my playlist. The video itself never plays, even when I select it again in my playlist.This has been broken at least since amarok 2.2. Am I doing something wrong since I do not understand how a plugin can be broken over 3 new major updates… Do I need to install something?
Somehow they wiped the scripts from the Amarok package. The only way to fix this is to download the source package here and copy the contents of src/scripts to /usr/share/kde4/apps/amarok/scripts.
No, no, no, forget that; it won’t work. The issue is that they dropped qt4-qtscript from the dependencies list and, as a result, scripts are disabled. You’ll have to re-build the RPM with qt4-qtscript installed to have scripts working again.
Hi, just jumping in as I have got the same issue with the Packman build as well
rpm -q -i amarok
gives
Name : amarok
Version : 2.5.0
Release : 18.1
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Sa 21 Jan 2012 08:10:18 CET
Group : Productivity/Multimedia/Sound/Players
Size : 33662880
License : GPL-2.0+
Signature : RSA/SHA1, Di 17 Jan 2012 22:25:10 CET, Key ID 45a1d0671abd1afb
Source RPM : amarok-2.5.0-18.1.src.rpm
Build Date : Di 17 Jan 2012 22:05:15 CET
Build Host : ccbpm2
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : packman@links2linux.de
Vendor : http://packman.links2linux.de
URL : http://amarok.kde.org/
Summary : Media Player for KDE
Description :
Amarok is a media player for all kinds of media. This includes MP3, Ogg
Vorbis, audio CDs, podcasts and streams. Play lists can be stored in
.m3u or .pls files.
Distribution: Essentials / openSUSE_12.1
None of the scripts seams to work. Only the the “Radio Germany” gives an error message that QPixmap variable cannot be found. Lyrics, recordstream etc. dont give any message but dont work. was used to see settings entries in 2.4.3 but none of the scripts will show up in “Extras” and “Settings”.
Maybe this is a generic bug then and not necessarily related to the openSUSE builds.
Hi,
I have the same issue, I rolled back to 2.4.3 (it’s in the openSUSE updates repo) and locked the package so it’s not updated. It’s not a real solution but at least for now I have the scripts back. Maybe it’s fixed in KDE 4.8, I haven’t tried it. Has anybody filed a bug report?
About the video applet I have never tried it.
Great! Now can you give more details on what you have installed/configured to have this working? From what repo did you get this working version? I tried 2.4.3 from packman repo but doesn’t work.
What phonon backend are you using? If gstreamer, did you install a special plugin?
On the kde forum: it seems that many others have issues with this applet for a long time, and still it has not been fixed. Very strange it works for you then
I haven’t done anything in particular, I believe the script (videotab) is installed alongside AmaroK by default on OpenSuSE. I am running OS 12.1 with the default KDE and AmaroK from the default oss (or rather the update) repo.
I did a check playing youtube videos but that script, which I installed manually with the script manager, did not work for me either, however, the video applet works with local videos.
Very strange it works for you then