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On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I |
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> cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve |
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> this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very |
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> unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in this |
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> time? |
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Fuck knows what amarok-2x does for the first 5 minutes. I *think* On my system |
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it scans the music directory, presumably to find updates that happened when |
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amarok was not running. Fair enough, can't argue that, but why is it so |
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*slow*??? |
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Fuck also knows what the amarok devs are doing in general. I still can't find |
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a way to move stuff to an mp3 player like the old 1.4 version did. And the |
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library thingamagij still doesn't always update tags, or put tag changes that |
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it itself did into it's own database. It gladly accepts any changes you make |
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in the Edit Tags dialog, and tries to write them, even if it knows it cannot |
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do it (no support for that format, permissions, etc). Then, no warning or |
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message about this. Depending on which bleeding edge latest-svn commit build |
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you happen to get on any given day, this last might or might not tell you |
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something in the status bar. |
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For all the above reasons, and more, I have switched to clementine (it's in |
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portage). It's a Qt port of amarok-1.4 and has equivalents of all the music- |
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playing goodness that amarok used to have. It doesn't do tags, external |
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players, wikipedia etc etc, it just plays music. And you have to tag your |
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music by other means with eg kid3. I can live with that. At least it starts |
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and stays up. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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