Amarok 1.4 in F10

[malikeye]

Anniedog, you should've used the rpmbuild method to build from source. It would've used the spec file to build everything into a clean and neat RPM.

The x86 RPM's are coming... so hold on for a bit and you can use what I compiled.

[NoEffex]

If you NEED a good music player and hate (the new) amarok, you can just do what I did, which was switch to Banshee.

[malikeye]

Here are the x86 RPMs :

amarok-1.4.10-4.fc10.i386.rpm
amarok-visualisation-1.4.10-4.fc10.i386.rpm

Thanks to YeOK for hosting them

[Anniedog]

Anniedog, you should've used the rpmbuild method to build from source. It would've used the spec file to build everything into a clean and neat RPM.

The x86 RPM's are coming... so hold on for a bit and you can use what I compiled.

Thanks malikeye I had worked out that I had used the wrong method already. In any case it would have failed as I had left the new F10 amarok installed. That was actually a mistake in my haste to try things out. Not there anymore I am running very very happily on the rpm from YeOK.

As I say I think in my case why I could not get amarok to work was down to my system not having all the right packages installed. My gut instinct is that it maybe the KDEbase3 or ruby that was missing. I am just surprised amarok installed without baulking at these dependencies if that is the case.

Only slight problem that is not a problem really as I do not bother with them anyway is I cannot get the visualisation rpm that YeOK complied to install. Oh and I am going to have to disable PacketKit as it is bugging me now that there is a new update available for amarok

Edit

Just to be fair and in the spirit of fedora (now that I have an idea and options to solve this hassle). I will commence with my plans to install F10 on my other boxes I can use the rpms here now for the boxes that really matter, but I will put the new amarok back on this machine( my destroy it box) just to see how it develops.

[YeOK]

Thanks malikeye I had worked out that I had used the wrong method already. In any case it would have failed as I had left the new F10 amarok installed. That was actually a mistake in my haste to try things out. Not there anymore I am running very very happily on the rpm from YeOK.

As I say I think in my case why I could not get amarok to work was down to my system not having all the right packages installed. My gut instinct is that it maybe the KDEbase3 or ruby that was missing. I am just surprised amarok installed without baulking at these dependencies if that is the case.

Only slight problem that is not a problem really as I do not bother with them anyway is I cannot get the visualisation rpm that YeOK complied to install. Oh and I am going to have to disable PacketKit as it is bugging me now that there is a new update available for amarok

I didn't try that package, have swapped back to Amarok 2 now

You can just exclude amarok in yum.

Edit '/etc/yum.conf' and add,

exclude=amarok*

Should stop the pop up.

[Pumpino]

Amarok 2 indeed seems like a step backwards. It's ugly and has reduced functionality. KDE and KDE apps seem to be going downhill fast. I was happily running Amarok 1.4 under Gnome in F9 but now I think I'll experiment with alternatives such as Rhythmbox and Banshee, and ditch all KDE apps (apart from K3b cause nothing beats that!).

[Deb]

@Deb, Looks like we forgot the libX11-devel package, I have the development group installed which probably added it for me.

Try

Code:

# yum install libX11-devel

Or you could install the development libs group,

Code:

#  yum groupinstall 'Development Libraries'

Just post back if you get any more build problems.

Edit:

Forgot to say, I have built and used Versions 1.92.2, and 1.94. The current Amarok version is 1.98.

Thanks yeOK. after issuing

yum --enablerepo=rawhide groupinstall 'Development Libraries' and 
yum --enablerepo=rawhide groupinstall 'X Software Development'

amarok compiled with a lot of warning messages but no error. But I have no functionality (if I play a ogg file nothing happens). this is exactly what was happening if I was using the rpm from the rawhide repo. See attached log.
In a way it was expected as I did not do anything in the source to use xine engine. So the question now is how to tell amarok to use xine engine during compilation?


Thanks guys for the 1.4.10 rpm but I would really like to use amarok 2

[Deb]

issued

yum install --enablerepo=rawhide phonon-backend-xine

and amarok is rocking again.
compiling the latest svn.

[Deb]

The svn version compiled without problem. Thanks a lot yeOK.
screenshot attached...

[YeOK]

The svn version compiled without problem. Thanks a lot yeOK.
screenshot attached...

Your welcome, I had forgot about the phonon-backend-xine, I suspect its also missing from Fedora's RPM version, and is why so many have trouble.

[Deb]

[QUOTE=YeOK;1120029I suspect its also missing from Fedora's RPM version, and is why so many have trouble.[/QUOTE]
The amarok and phonon-backend-xine rpm when downloaded together works atleast it did yesterday) provided you have xine, xine-extras-freeworld etc. the problem in my opinion is the decision by the amarok devs not to include any engine with the binary and let phonon handle the different engines on a as required basis- which is good. What i do not understand though there is no dependency on any phonon-backends while compilation or rpm install. That is why hen you you install amarok from rawhide repo it installs without any dependency issues but does not work either- and users of 1.4 get thoroughly baffled by this behaviour.

[giulix]

Here are the x86 RPMs :

amarok-1.4.10-4.fc10.i386.rpm
amarok-visualisation-1.4.10-4.fc10.i386.rpm

Thanks to YeOK for hosting them

Thanks, mates... appreciate

[oscar3332000]

here is the amarok rpms with the amarok extras

amarok-1.4.10-1.fc10.i386.rpm
http://argsoft.net/rpms/amarok-1.4.10-1.fc10.i386.rpm

amarok-visualisation-1.4.10-1.fc10.i386.rpm
http://argsoft.net/rpms/amarok-visua....fc10.i386.rpm

amarok-extras-freeworld-1.4.10-1.fc10.noarch.rpm
http://argsoft.net/rpms/amarok-extra...c10.noarch.rpm

for others architectures:
amarok-1.4.10-1.fc10.src.rpm
http://argsoft.net/rpms/amarok-1.4.10-1.fc10.src.rpm
rebuild it with rpmbuild

rpmbuild --rebuild amarok-1.4.10-1.fc10.src.rpm

on F10 pulseaudio produce some problems, verify on your amarok, gnome, kde, mplayer, xine,kaffeine... settings the driver; it could be alsa, oss, etc, but not pulseaudio

[Flak Pyro]

Thanks guys i lasted with Amarok 2 for about 2 days haha, i even installed 1.98 from updates testing, that got me basic ipod support but no ability to create a playlist on my ipod and album art transfered to my ipod via Amarok 2 was very blury and distorted. This was a deal breaker for me, on Fedora 10 preview i had compiled amarok 1.4 myself but i just used the RPMs provided here and the old behavior that im used to is here, and i can manage my ipod no problem! Amarok 2 was slow, clunky, made managing your library with your ipod library a pain, was slow to download artwork and in some cases would miss entire albums when scanning my collection, so glad to have 1.4 back!

[Tutankh]

Hi all, my apologies if this ends up being a repost, but, I believe I've figured out how to downgrade amarok back to 1.4 in F10 without any significant hassle. My rationale for wanting to do this is not unique, so to be brief, my problems with Amarok 2.0 I'll list here

-No extensive media tag viewing pane** (this is the big one)
-Cluttered interface with little ability to impact any significant features
-inability to select sound engine
-inability to deselect the dynamic playlist mode
-confusing/non-intuitive UI (yes i know this one is closed-minded)

Suffice to say, I appreciate what they tried to do, but thus far feel 1.4 is a more coherent release. So without further ado... thanks and credit for this goes to Bittersoul, i'm just posting it.

You have to remove all current editions of media players since they all use the new libraries.

[root@system ~]# yum remove amarok* mplayer* audacious dragon* devede xmms kaffeine* rhythmbox

note that in the above I have listed some common players, you may have additional players on your box.


Next install the old dependencies for amaroK 1.4

[root@system ~]# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/re...1.fc9.i386.rpm

[root@system ~]# yum install libnjb.so.5 libifp.so.4 libruby.so.1.8 ruby

note that the first command is for the elusive libmtp.so.7 -- version 6 will work well enough (or it does for me)

Next install the old amaroK package

[root@system ~]# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packag...1.fc9.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packag...1.fc9.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:amarok ########################################### [100%]

that's it, you'll of course want to add a line in /etc/yum.conf that excludes amarok from updates

exclude=amarok*

should do the trick.

Enjoy!