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Amarok 2.5 releasedAmarok 2.5 releasedPosted Dec 22, 2011 0:04 UTC (Thu) by leifbk (subscriber, #35665)Parent article: Amarok 2.5 released
I support Clementine, an Amarok 1.4 replacement that's approaching its 1.0 release, and I've been using it since version 0.3. I hope that LWN will cover the 1.0 release of Clementine in an appropriate manner. I was a very satisfied user of Amarok 1.4, but the weird interface of 2.x put me completely off.
FWIW, I've been a KDE user since 2003, but I can't see that I'm using any feature that wasn't already there in 3.x. KDE 4 has been a lot of bloat so far.
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Amarok 2.5 released Posted Dec 22, 2011 1:32 UTC (Thu) by malefic (subscriber, #37306) [Link]
I never knew Clementine existed. I hate Amarok 2.x as much as I loved 1.x: the interface is bloated, it has hard dependency on MySQL and the overall stability leaves a lot to wish for. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a decent replacement that wouldn't be alien to KDE before. I'll give Clementine a try now.
Amarok 2.5 released Posted Dec 22, 2011 18:26 UTC (Thu) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link]
Amarok is stable on my setup, i.e., Kubuntu 11.10 with the kubuntu-ppa enabled (note I enabled the ppa for more stable Akonadi and Nepomuk, not for Amarok). The dependence on Mysql is an educated choice. The Sqlite in 1.4 was useless for medium to large music collections, and changing to Mysql was a hassle. KDE4 has chosen Mysql as the standard db for the desktop, so it is a shared resource, hence changing Amarok to use, e.g,. Postgresql would introduce bloat with no tangible benefit. One may question the choice of Mysql of course, but that is another discussion.
The stability issues that have bothered me significantly in Amarok are due to Pulseaudio integration. Finally, that also seems quite stable (cross fingers).
Amarok 2.5 released Posted Dec 25, 2011 13:48 UTC (Sun) by lab (subscriber, #51153) [Link]
Thanks for the tip on Clementine! Using it now, very happy, Amarok uninstalled. It's fast and lean. Only complaint so far is that the last.fm buttons are inactive for some reason.
Amarok 2.5 released Posted Dec 25, 2011 13:59 UTC (Sun) by lab (subscriber, #51153) [Link]
> Only complaint so far is that the last.fm buttons are inactive for some reason.
Ah, figured it out. The buttons are only active when scobling is turned on. Happy now!
Amarok 2.5 released Posted Dec 28, 2011 4:47 UTC (Wed) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link]
I found Clementine earlier this year and fell in love. Classic Amarok was the only KDE app I used in my generally-GNOME desktop because it was so good; I loathed the 2.x series heartily (slower, missing features from 1.4, hideous layout), and was delighted to discover someone had forked-and-continued.
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