[Bug 52155] Re: Amarok crashes when playing .mp3, .wma, and .ogg files

[frogzoo]

From: http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/FAQ

Amarok crashes during the Collection scan, always at the same point. What's happening?
It's likely that one file in your Collection triggers a bug in the TagLib library, and makes Amarok crash. You can identify this file by looking at ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection_scan.log. You should report this crash to the TagLib bug database on bugs.kde.org and attach the broken file. Afterward you can remove the file from your Collection and repeat the scanning. 
[edit]Amarok crashes when I play a certain track, everytime, what's wrong?
This usually means TagLib is crashing while reading that track's tags. Report the bug against TagLib at [1]. 

[edit]audio playback seems choppy. What causes this? Is there anything I can do?
Audio playback can be affected by many things on a Unix/Linux system, including choice of drivers, sound card, the desktop environment you use, or even the filesystem you are using. You might try some of the things mentioned here http://ck.kolivas.org/faqs/audio_hints.txt 

[edit]Amarok crashes often, what can I do?
Upgrade your ALSA libs and utils to the latest version, or use OSS, or OSS emulation 
If you use MySQL as the database backend, try the SQLite one, it is slightly more mature (the Amarok code, not the db itself) 
Try a different audio-engine. 
Make sure that all the libraries that Amarok uses were compiled with the same GCC version as Amarok itself. The situation when Amarok is compiled using GCC 3.4.x and linked against taglib which was compiled using GCC 3.3.x can lead to crashes even if you are not editing tags. 
If you're using KDE with artsd, try disabling "auto suspend if idle after..." in the sound system settings or at least don't use a value of 1 second since that will interfere every time amarok switches songs. 
Otherwise, forward us the backtraces when the email pops-up (you'll see). If you get a crash often you will get it fixed for sure if you forward a really good backtrace to us. See the next sections for assistance there. 

I'm running amarok 1.4 on Dapper from an unofficial repo, without
problems.

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Amarok crashes when playing .mp3, .wma, and .ogg files
https://launchpad.net/bugs/52155