Comments on: Amarok 2 Beta 2 released

By: SyBorg

SyBorg — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:38:19 +0000

I agree with Nadrek

Maybe an external python module to Amarok would do. Maybe using sqlalchemy (http://sqlalchemy.org) which rocks (it takes care of many dialect aspects, and python code is so much easier to mantain/customize)

By: Nadrek

Nadrek — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:17:34 +0000

Personally, the lack of Postgres support is a showstopper for me. I take care to do maintenance on my databases, I want to be able to index things as necessary, and I’ve standardized on Postgres to do so.

Please consider re-adding Postgres support at some time in the future.

By: cdr

cdr — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:35:38 +0000

@Mark: I’m curious, which scalability issues specifically?

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:49:51 +0000

Amarok is not working here, opensuse 11. No collection after the scanning

By: Mark Kretschmann

Mark Kretschmann — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:41:13 +0000

@Sam: SQLite has scalability issues with huge data sets. For Amarok this means that you would experience poor performance with a huge music collection.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:03:55 +0000

Did you have any problems with Sqlite or was it more a strategic decision to go with MySql since it would easier allow support for a database server later on?

/Sam

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:02:15 +0000

@Rasi: ReplayGain tag support is limited at best in TagLib.

@Andreas: Yes, but unfortunately it is not good enough – each database implements it’s own select feature set, some introducing their own syntax.

By: Fabrizio R.

Fabrizio R. — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:54:12 +0000

Guy you’re doing a great job…thanks for this great app!

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:35:05 +0000

Man, I hear about SQL dialect problems way too often. Isn’t there a subset of the standard that is both sufficient and implemented in every database that matters? In my PHP hacking endeavours long ago I’ve never used anything specific AFAIK. Is there really something more complicated than join that you really need?
Also, MySQL is one of the least standards compliant databases out there so it’s unfortunate that it is often the first choice – which means that everything else won’t work by default.

By: Nikolaj Hald Nielsen

Nikolaj Hald Nielsen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:50:53 +0000

@Rasi

I am not an expert on this, but as I understand it, there are certain functions available in gstreamer, xine and friends that are simply not exposed in the Phonon API yet. Since we rely on phonon ( in order to avoid having to maintain multiple separate backends ), we can not offer this functionality until Phonon offers the needed interfaces. This is being worked on in Phonon though, so it should happen sometime in the not too distant future.