26 October 2011

HowTo: Amarok: Deleting Saved Lyrics (Amarok 2.4)

LyricWiki.org has a great collection of song lyrics and Amarok's built-in script draws from this site to display lyrics to the songs that it is playing. However, these lyrics aren't always correct and (in my experience) Amarok doesn't check for updated lyrics. I've updated a few songs there myself and Amarok still displays the old, incorrect lyrics.

I don't know how to erase a single entry, but since I rarely read the lyrics on a computer that isn't internet-connected, I erased all of my lyrics and Amarok can re-fetch them as needed and rebuild its lyric database.

From a command line:

locate -i lyrics.frm |grep -i amarok

My lyrics are located in my home directory, along with a few other database files. Delete them all:

$ locate -i lyrics.frm |grep -i amarok

/home/lefty/.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle/amarok/lyrics.frm

I just deleted these files and restarted Amarok:

$ rm -rf /home/lefty/.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle/amarok/lyrics.*

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