You all are right, in many ways Amarok 2 was not yet up to par with the
1.4 series when Jaunty was released. But as always, the developers are
pushing forward in the new flexibility that the reworked code base
brings, even if there are growing pains involved.
As have been enumerated in many previous places, it is infeasible to
keep the 1.4 series as the official version of Amarok for K/Ubuntu as we
push forward. The 1.4 series is no longer maintained -- meaning the
development team has not found anyone willing to maintain the old
version when the future is the 2.x series. Also, 1.4 uses the older Qt3
and kde3 libraries, which means running 1.4 on a KDE4 system involves
many extra libraries and dependencies. Simply put, the 1.4 series
doesn't fit well into a modern KDE4 system. Sure, it can be forced, and
people do that. But it's out of place and doesn't pick up on the
advantages that the kdelibs and related development platform bring.
That's certainly not to say that Amarok 2 is not making progress towards
being the best media player available. Just to address a few of the
above complaints: mysql db storage is now working. The wikipedia applet
is rewritten and updated. Various artist support is improving. Sound
issues largely have to do with Pulseaudio rather than Amarok itself.
MTP and other device support is the focus of a GSoC project. Etc.
Steady progress is being made and it's through the hard work of the
Amarok developers.
I think most of the issue stems from shipping older versions of Amarok
in the default install. Try out the new 2.1 series and I think you'll
see a lot of the issues in 2.0 resolved. As far as I know, there are no
plans to include older versions of Amarok in K/Ubuntu repositories, so
I'm closing this bug as Won't Fix.
** Changed in: amarok (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
** Summary changed:
- amarok in jaunty is broken
+ Make Amarok 1.4 Packages Available in Ubuntu Repositories
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Make Amarok 1.4 Packages Available in Ubuntu Repositories
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331449
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