I just recently installed Amarok on my Ubuntu desktop at home. It has been years since I have used anything other than XMMS to play my mp3 collection. Let me tell you…Amarok is probably the best mp3 player I have used including anything I have used on Windows. (I do not have a Mac, so I can’t vouch for any music players beyond iTunes.)
One of the issues I had after installing is that my variable bit rate (VBR) mp3 track lengths were all wrong. After reading a few HOWTO’s and forum posts, I collected enough information to fix the issue by writing the track length in the mp3 track tag.
- Download and install vbrfix.
sudo apt-get install vbrfix - Run vbrfix against all your mp3 files.
find /myth/music -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec vbrfix {} {} \; - Start Amarok.
- Rescan your music collection (assuming the songs had been added to the library).
Tools > Rescan Collection - Restart Amarok.
- The track times should be accurate.
I am still working out how to control my Alsa PCM channel via Amarok and LIRC. If I have time to find a solution, I will try to post it.
Wow, thanks for this. Glad to see it distilled to a simple few commands. It’s taking forever on my rather large collection, but at least I can just let it run!
Hey thanks, was googling around quickly and found this.
If you still need help with LIRC, PCM, and Amarok, let me know – I have it all going in the latest version of Ubuntu. Hint: It involves irexec