On Tuesday 14 April 2009 02:19:47 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Paul Hartman > > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The only app I am really disappointed with is Amarok 2. I really liked > > Amarok 1 and they started over for Amarok 2 and I dislike just about > > everything they've done to it. The tree-view collection list is > > awful!!!!, the UI is bad (middle 50% of screen is wasted), playlist is > > not intuitive. Does not support titles in cue files. The only thing > > they've done better is Last.fm works better... but I am about [------] > > this close to going back to Amarok 1 and taking on board the KDE3 libs > > it brings with it. > > One more big gripe about Amarok 2: it is a music player which cannot > play music CDs. What's up with that? > > I just tried Amarok 2.1 and they haven't fixed anything... Something > as simple as loading an album into the playlist, with the tracks in > the proper order, is seemingly impossible. I am so frustrated with it.
I tried really hard to use Amarok 2 the way the developers intended. But I failed. I couldn't really figure out what was the way they intended at all so I had to guess. The final straws were: - same as you - can't actually play anything except mp3/ogg - interface designed by an idiot with half the real estate blank in the middle - Tag editor simply does not work right. I can't edit an album, change the name of the album and have it show up in all tracks. - the final straw of the final straws was the idiocy about how the Amarok devs think you should use mysql. So Amarok is a project that seems to have lost it's focus, has no idea what the project is even supposed to do, and is being coded by a bunch of fools who have no idea. I went back to 1.4, masked everything >=1.5 and life is good again. mpd is also worth a second look. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
