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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Damian <damian.only@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Thanks Paul and Alan for your advices. |
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> OT: |
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> For me it's hard to drop amarok because I cannot find all of its |
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> funtionality in one player. For now I'm using mpd+sonata. They're |
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> great, but it's just not the same. I guess eventually I'll make my own |
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> player :P |
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I'm a long-time user of KDE3-Amarok and the new Amarok is taking some |
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time to get used to... I do not like at all the way it sorts your |
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collection, it seems to be trying to be too smart. I don't have an |
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assortment of random songs, I have albums, and it's very difficult to |
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get them to display as such. I had no problems in the old Amarok. |
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The fact that half the screen is reserved for docking of plug-ins or |
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widgets or whatever is kind of annoying... It is not intuitive how to |
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arrange them. For example, there is a lyrics plug-in but it only shows |
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about 4 lines of text, which makes it annoying to the point of being |
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useless (unless I want to scroll line-by-line during the entire song). |
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Last.fm works much better in the new Amarok, however. It never quite |
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worked right in the old one. Loving/banning/skipping songs is all very |
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easy now. |
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The big problem I have in Amarok 2 is that it has 2 big major problems: |
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1. It randomly stops playing and uses 100% until I kill it. This seems |
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to happen not-so-randomly if I try to skip 2 songs in a row. It may be |
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buffering or something. The old Amarok had a similar problem, |
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actually, but it would just crash. |
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2. It randomly (usually after 5 songs or so) stops producing any |
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sound, though it acts like it is still playing. One song will finish |
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and the next will "start" but be silent. Quitting Amarok and |
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re-starting causes the sound to work again, for a few songs, and then |
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it goes silent. |
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Overall I would say at this poin, other than the Last.fm support, I |
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prefer the old Amarok in almost every way to the new one. UI was |
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better, performance was better, display of collection was better. |
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Maybe there are some new features that I'm not aware of that might |
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make me love Amarok 2. |
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Thanks, |
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Paul |
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