replacement for amarok 1.4. in squeeze?
Dear all, now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and application to access my ipod. I've upgraded to squeeze about a month ago, and I can't find the following features in squeeze's amarok (all of which were pleasantly usable in lenny's): - ability to synchronize and manage media files on my ipod classic (a google search tells me I should install amarok-ipod, but there is no amarok-ipod in squeeze). - import my old podcasts. Somehow amarok managed to ignore the existing podcasts in my /home/audio folder. (There is no 'media device' setting in the configuration menue.) - ability to show recently added files and albums - ability to import my 'old' mysql database (amarok 1.4.10-2lenny1) into amarok 2.3.1. (I guess I could do without that in case of a good replacement for amarok). I also find the new user interface quite annoying. It appears more 'clean' than the old one, but lacks many of the features that I found useful. amarok has always been quite a huge monster application, slow to start and rather wasteful on resources. In the past this disadvantage has been compensated by a large feature set. The 'new' amarok on kde4 by comparison, appears to be even slower to start and shows only a fraction of the features compared to lenny. (I guess this is generally the case with many applications for kde4). The most pressing need at the moment is to find a way to download podcasts and synchronize mp3s and podcasts with the ipod. Thanks for any suggestions! Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d4d2f5c.1060...@aktendiener.de
Re: replacement for amarok 1.4. in squeeze?
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:07:08 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and application to access my ipod. (...) Clementine was a fork of Amarok created precisely for that reason (people unhappy with the new path taken by Amarok 2.x), maybe you can take a look at its fetaures: http://www.clementine-player.org/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.02.05.13.04...@gmail.com
Re: replacement for amarok 1.4. in squeeze?
Hi, On Saturday 05 February 2011 12.07:08 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and application to access my ipod. This question is better addressed to the upstream (KDE) mailing lists. I know that Amarok 2 vs. 1.4 has generated quite a bit of noise. However, it is not feasible (meaning: nobody who would be able to do it has time and/or motivation) to continue maintaining Amarok 1.4. So there's just not much we (as Debian) can do. Sorry if this may not be the answer you're looking for. greetings Adrian von Bidder -- Focusing on encryption is like sticking a tall stake in the ground and hoping the enemy runs right into it, instead of building a wide wall. -- Bruce Schneier signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: replacement for amarok 1.4. in squeeze?
Hi, (sorry, the first one went off-list) On Saturday 05 February 2011 12.07:08 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and application to access my ipod. Clementine is one of the continuations of Amarok 1.4. It was ported to Qt4 and many things were fixed. debian-multimedia.org has version 0.5.3 and the project website has (unofficial) Debian packages for 0.6. Although not part of Squeeze, it's maybe worth a look in case Amarok 2 does not fit your needs (yet). Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=vzv+6v5y8qqwz3cegjtvdjnmovwxypczrf...@mail.gmail.com
Re: replacement for amarok 1.4. in squeeze?
On Saturday 05 February 2011 16:12:47 Adrian von Bidder wrote: I know that Amarok 2 vs. 1.4 has generated quite a bit of noise. However, it is not feasible (meaning: nobody who would be able to do it has time and/or motivation) to continue maintaining Amarok 1.4. So there's just not much we (as Debian) can do. There's always Trinity.* They are probably already maintaining/updating Amarok 1.4. And if they haven't got there yet, they soon will. Lisi * http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2010052500735NWKE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102051656.40936.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: replacement for amarok 1.4. in squeeze?
Hello, On šeštadienis 05 Vasaris 2011 13:07:08 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: - ability to synchronize and manage media files on my ipod classic (a google search tells me I should install amarok-ipod, but there is no amarok-ipod in squeeze). ipod should show up in Media sources home - Local music. - import my old podcasts. Somehow amarok managed to ignore the existing podcasts in my /home/audio folder. (There is no 'media device' setting in the configuration menue.) There used to be a bug about this. I don't recall if it was fixed. But read the point below. - ability to show recently added files and albums Filter collection by e.g. added:1h. Click on the arrow in the Search Collection text box. - ability to import my 'old' mysql database (amarok 1.4.10-2lenny1) into amarok 2.3.1. (I guess I could do without that in case of a good replacement for amarok). Settings - Configure Amarok - Collection - Import All suggests are based on 2.4.0. Check if they apply to 2.3.1. I also find the new user interface quite annoying. It appears more 'clean' than the old one, but lacks many of the features that I found useful. amarok has always been quite a huge monster application, slow to start and rather wasteful on resources. In the past this disadvantage has been compensated by a large feature set. The 'new' amarok on kde4 by comparison, appears to be even slower to start and shows only a fraction of the features compared to lenny. (I guess this is generally the case with many applications for kde4). Well, that's your preference. Amarok has always been pretty bulky. Personally I don't find UI much worse as long as it satisfies my basic needs. -- Modestas Vainius modes...@vainius.eu signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
