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Recently, something apparently changed on my system during an update |
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such that Amarok 1 from KDE Sunset will no longer build with the mp4 USE |
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flag turned on. Since that effectively means that it would no longer be |
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able to play M4A files ripped from YouTube streams, that would |
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effectively end my interest in Amarok, so I tried upgrading to the new |
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QT4 version just to see if it's as awful as everybody says. |
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It is as awful as everybody says. |
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It will play MP4, but the layout is absurd. It has a tab for Internet |
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streams that doesn't let you add any streams the author didn't include |
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with it. It wants you to put your streams into playlists, but doesn't |
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let you give them titles. It feels slow and unresponsive, and from my |
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brief usage of the program, it doesn't seem to support global |
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(desktop-wide) hotkeys -- you have to focus its window to make it do |
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things like advance to the next track. It also no longer lets you do |
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things like delete actual files while deleting playlist items like |
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Amarok 1 used to (useful for those songs you've just had it with). |
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When playing user-added Internet streams from your playlist (the only |
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place they can be, thanks to the above), if anything goes wrong |
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connecting to them, they get removed, which is fun if they playlist you |
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currently have running was the only place they were saved. |
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So...I'd really like my Amarok 1.4 back... |
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Has anyone else had problems building it with MP4 support lately? |
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Addendum: (Also, in an unrelated note, has anyone noticed that the EAPI |
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warnings from the overlay have gotten really heinous lately during world |
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updates?) |
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-- |
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+ Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys |
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+ Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will |
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+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of |
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+ James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, |
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+ Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky |