[gentoo-desktop] KDE Sunset Amarok

[Brent Busby]

Recently, something apparently changed on my system during an update 
such that Amarok 1 from KDE Sunset will no longer build with the mp4 USE 
flag turned on.  Since that effectively means that it would no longer be 
able to play M4A files ripped from YouTube streams, that would 
effectively end my interest in Amarok, so I tried upgrading to the new 
QT4 version just to see if it's as awful as everybody says.

It is as awful as everybody says.

It will play MP4, but the layout is absurd.  It has a tab for Internet 
streams that doesn't let you add any streams the author didn't include 
with it.  It wants you to put your streams into playlists, but doesn't 
let you give them titles.  It feels slow and unresponsive, and from my 
brief usage of the program, it doesn't seem to support global 
(desktop-wide) hotkeys -- you have to focus its window to make it do 
things like advance to the next track.  It also no longer lets you do 
things like delete actual files while deleting playlist items like 
Amarok 1 used to (useful for those songs you've just had it with). 
When playing user-added Internet streams from your playlist (the only 
place they can be, thanks to the above), if anything goes wrong 
connecting to them, they get removed, which is fun if they playlist you 
currently have running was the only place they were saved.

So...I'd really like my Amarok 1.4 back...

Has anyone else had problems building it with MP4 support lately?


Addendum: (Also, in an unrelated note, has anyone noticed that the EAPI 
warnings from the overlay have gotten really heinous lately during world 
updates?)

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