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