From Dan (hydrogen)

[Tyson Key]

Start by, as you said, increasing Amarok's reliability and stability.
Look at some of the popular Windows-based players, and see what they
have and and think about where some of the concepts could apply to
Amarok. I'm not saying that we should go "flat-out" and implement
every known feature that's ever been incorporated into a player, but
look at where Amarok is falling short in the features department, and
try and incorporate some of the better ideas.

On 10/27/06, Christie Harris <dangle.baby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yarg my rokymotin mates!
>
> Promo's been kind of dead lately, I think most of us got tired of writing
> release notice after release notice :)
>
> I was doing some thinking while in the shower, so its probably not that
> sound,
> but here is kind of a braindump.
>
> Our main goal as rokymoters is to get more people to use amarok, even more
> so
> than writing release announcements, we should be trying to get people to use
> Amarok.
>
> How can we do this though?  What can we do to convince people that Amarok is
> the player that they should use? I think we need to brainstorm on this.
>
> Things to think about:
> Features (We have lots but so do most other audio players nowadays)
> Community (What makes the Amarok community special?)
> Stability (I don't think we want to touch this :) Although 1.4.4 looks like
> it
> will have more bugfixes than any previous release, there are still a ton of
> open bugs, maybe if this bugfixing trend continues it will be something nice
> to tout, but not yet.)
> What else?
>
> Now, how can we get the word out?  Lets ignore another attempt at getting on
> another linux user site so that the same users can read what we say and make
> the same posts they always do, how can we get fresh blood?
>
> My first instinct is to target the windows crowd, but this would require a
> rock stable livecd along with some good incentives to switch to linux.
> Things I like about targeting windows users is that when they switch to
> linux
> they will use Amarok because that is all they know, we can get them hooked
> before they have an opportunity to try another media player.
>
> I think that if Amarok's stability increases, this will also be a huge
> selling
> point, that is one thing that I can say about windows programs, as much as
> they may suck balls in features, they are rock stable.  I would not dare use
> Amarok for DJ'ing, because it has such a tendency to do odd things for no
> reason and I feel fairly comfortable with Amarok's idiosyncrasies, normal
> users would get scared away after the first crash.
>
> What do you thinK?  What should we do to promote Amarok?  Lets brainstorm
> some
> stuff, and then see what we can do.  Ideas do not have to be rational, or
> even seem feasible at first, just throw them out and lets work with them.
>
> Dan,
>
> ps. dangle you will probably kill me for grammar and spelling, but I'm
> tired.
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