Amarok-1.4.6_pre20070608 is too unstable for normal use, please hard mask it. For example, it doesn't update the collection properly (even when forced to do it), when files are added. And it crashed when I tried to add an album cover from Amazon.com. Earlier versions are fine.
I'm having just the opposite experience with Amarok-1.4.6_pre20070608. It's much more stable then previous versions and I have no problems when rescanning my collection and adding album covers. Using kde-3.5.7. $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.10 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha3 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17.50.0.16 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/storage/packages" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=both" LINGUAS="en ja" PKGDIR="/storage/quickpkgs" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa anthy aoss arts asf audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cjk cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dhcp disk-partition divx dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emovix encode extra-cardsets fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp glib glibc-omitfp glut gmedia gphoto2 gpm gs gtk gtkhtml guile hal hddtemp iconv imagemagick imlib immqt-bc injection ipv6 isdnlog java jikes jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility kdepim kipi lame lcms libcaca libg++ libvisual live lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate lua lzo mad madwifi mailwrapper midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng modplug motif mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mplayer mudflap musepack musicbrainz nas ncurses network network-cron nls nonfsv4 nptl nptlonly nsplugin ocaml ogg openexr opengl openmp oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real realmedia reflection reiserfs rtc samba scanner sdl session slang slp smime sndfile speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg svga sylpheed tcpd theora tiff tordns truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vidix visualization vorbis wavpack wifi win32codecs wireshark wma wmf wmp x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xscreensaver xv zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="sonydscf1 sonydscf55" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ja" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev radeon vesa v4l" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I have to confirm I can't find any problem with Amarok, sounds more solid than 1.4.5 to me, haven't been able to crash it yet. The 1.4.6 codebase is mostly bugfixes so it's hard that new bugs got added. Please provide more specific information (like a backtrace) and your emerge --info.
I can confirm some strange behaviour when letting Amarok organise my music into folders I notice it doesn't On further investigation I notice that it's trying to create /boot/home which it doesn't have any rights to do so Hope this helps
