Amarok/Manual/Various/TroubleshootingAndCommonProblems

Problems installing - bad packages, difficulties building from source

Problems starting up - corrupt playlist, config files, database

problems scanning - corrupt tags, how to find the bad file, amarokcollectionscanner from the console: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Batch_Mode

Proper tagging: Kid3, EasyTag, Picard

No sound, or bad sound -- phonon backends, pulseaudio

Amarok skips over tracks, or appears to play them without sound

I write a tag, but Amarok doesn't save it - You may have permissions problems. Try chown -R username folder/ in the console.

How to make a backup of database (statistics) and config files: copy HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok and $HOME/.kde/share/config/amarok* folders

How to run amarok from the commandline: amarok -d --nofork

Amarok crashes, but Dr. Konqui doesn't pop up -- run in gdb: gdb --args amarok --debug --nofork, run, <wait for crash>, bt

How to file a bug

How to get personal support with problems: IRC (#amarok on Freenode IRC), Forum: http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=127, List: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok