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I am trying to use Amarok on multiple machines with one database. I've found only few information about it, but some say it is possible. What I've done so far is:

  • Dumping my local mySQL database for amarok
  • Setting up mySQL on a server and writing the dump into it
  • Changing the Amarok options, pointing to the new DB
  • Mounting my music folder in the same path on all machines
  • Setting the folder as local music folder in the settings on all machines

This works partially. Some statistical information appears (number of played tracks) and the playlists I once saved to the DB are there. I can even play them. The thing that isn't working is, that the tracks in my library (under Local Music) are gone. I even tried to rescan but it doesn't affect the other instances.

Has anyone experience with this? Is it even possible to do?

Update

If been fiddling around a little with rescanning. I noticed that when I freshly write my dump to the new DB, the library on the client where I created that dump seems fine. My guess is now that it has some kind of client ID. I'm not sure though it still shows strange behaviour across clients if I start rescanning. I've looked through all Amarok related files in ~/.kde/ (at least I think I got everything) but I can't seem to find something relevant.

Update

After some experimenting with the config file I copied all of them from the first client. I copied ~/.kde/share/config/amarok* and~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/.

I'm now observing the following behaviour. In ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc is the following entry:

[Collection Folders]
1=./mnt/myMusicMount
Use MusicLocation=true

Checking the SQL tables the 1 seems to be referred as some folder ID. If I start amarok it creates a new entry 4=./myUserName. If I go to the options I can see that only my home folder is selected as the default. If I add my mounted folder it creates another entry 6=./mnt/myMusicMount. It seems to be ignoring the entry 1 (which by the way doesn't disapear) completely and making it's own thing. I guess that's why it's ignoring the tracks referred by 1 in the DB.

André Stannek
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You've four out-of-the-box and graphical ways to access a remote amarok's collection:

And one way to configure properly a remote database.

Only one of the five solutions it's necessary.

n00b
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