From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NASzX-0000gN-QG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:41:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3628E093D; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:41:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 988E7E093D for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:41:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 3so62965eyh.40 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:41:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=aF8EEF6aGiRbNJHExkfF887ZgNW23zQJfakZGqq9fZM=; b=a7T418hlTO0CYAj8HpM79L97HRNT17FwMx4WNwER4pBBReDnLt47FN/mpvmU311Jn8 QzAl+EzgSgYBKs1mCiY7LpJMCyjG+rMeNkGLovldoPpcVcMoaW/3ZlOmriVUwS/+I0tB LcO03v1gibHuDuZeycvGa7YO+D+2CK0sbv6UU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=cY5zn4U5cMf0T/UcECQxMFWzGAcMe6GmKgZzTs/9qg02LXcN/qxiQG4u2gxZnvwcnf iR7Ej9WEAUv5vma8w76DQlBOiX5hxA6oOi85c+pvxpVak2M+OgrukywLf2+T8HSJwV0y sjUEHz/vN14wiTdwgNQX5+jUyEDyTy9uqiHVU= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: doug.hunley@gmail.com Received: by 10.213.0.138 with SMTP id 10mr2790467ebb.56.1258483265975; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:41:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200911170019.13123.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <200911161024.22573.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <7284e2210911161126l7d8e23f9uff53aaf8089b2b9b@mail.gmail.com> <200911170019.13123.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:41:05 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dea2843fb520ec23 Message-ID: <7284e2210911171041g1fad8ab0xa4422078f8b2877f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: amarok can't use mysql collection From: Doug Hunley To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 4364fc8e-8aca-46b3-94f8-b282744460f5 X-Archives-Hash: 5738fb5217e34cf14f017224ec06329a On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 17:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 16 November 2009 21:26:02 Doug Hunley wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:24, Alan McKinnon > 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.hunley@gmail.com : http://douglasjhunley.com : Twitter: @hunleyd Obsessively opposed to the typical.