tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676448.post8612420230957363001..comments2023-06-17T12:47:19.240+01:00Comments on Subclassed: Amarok 2 revisitedtoyghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499664589774142384noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676448.post-86588497070563920562011-01-11T18:48:00.817+00:002011-01-11T18:48:00.817+00:00Sorry to disagree with this article, even now Amar...Sorry to disagree with this article, even now Amarok 2 is junk. 2.4 beta is out right now and two of the big features of it are writing playcounts and cd covers to the actual media files because they clearly cannot manage a database: how many Amarok 2 users out there can honestly say that they have not lost playcounts, covers and even the odd album (especially when it comes to compilations).<br /><br />Adding on top of that not only the constant crashes (yes, this still really does happen a lot - I have Amarok on my Gentoo box and my Debian based laptop, but have also found issues with it on kubuntu, Arch and Fedora), but the odd quirks of the UI that appear every so often - the latest one for me (amarok 2.3.2) is the play/pause button fails to work. Then there's the sheer enormity of the footprint and how about - what was the killer feature for me at least - the lastfm similar tracks smart playlist. Sure, there is one in Amarok 2, but for some obscure reason something like one in every ten tracks is completely random, which tends to completely alter the flow of the following tracks.<br /><br />Amarok 2 is a shadow of its predecessor and that is unlikely to change in the near future, however there are other media players that will fill the gap. Clementine and Exaile are the two most promising, although DeaDBeeF (awfully like foobar2000) would also be a contender if it had a media library plugin.<br /><br />The king is dead.<br />/rantPassing interestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676448.post-88475106781035592492009-11-24T08:49:10.925+00:002009-11-24T08:49:10.925+00:00Nice to hear that they fixed some issues, but... w...Nice to hear that they fixed some issues, but... way too late, at least for me.<br /><br />Amarok 1.4 was the best player I ever had, now I'm trying to get used to MPD + GMPC.<br /><br />By the way, I've written some (poorly coded and throw-away) scripts to migrate a music collection from Amarok 1.4.x to Rhythmbox 0.12 and MPD 0.19 + GMPC 0.15.<br />They can be found here: <a href="http://erlug.linux.it/~da/soft/amarok2rhythmbox/" rel="nofollow">amarok2rhythmbox</a> and <a href="http://erlug.linux.it/~da/soft/amarok2gmpc/" rel="nofollow">amarok2gmpc</a>.Davide Alberanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09850525147912000520noreply@blogger.com