Amarok 2.2 "Sunjammer" released

[Andreas Stangl]

First of all, this one is for the troll: ><o(((°>
Second: If your amarok eats up all of your CPU power there is something wrong
with your system for sure. My amarok (I use the latest from GIT) does never eat
more than 5% of my CPU, the only situation where amarok is CPU hungry is while
doing a full rescan of my collection.
I was pretty desperate with my amarok some time ago, it crashed pretty 
frequently, and there were no updates available on my linux distribution (I use 
gentoo), so I decided to get the latest code from the git repository. Give it a 
try, you will not regret it.
Some official releases are sometimes pretty buggy on some distributions, but 
amarok is under heavy development (just take a look at the git commit logs) and 
there is no software out there that does not have bugs. 
And you should always keep in mind,  that we are using an open source music 
player, if you think the dev's are not fast enough that send in patches, join 
the team and/or stop complaining.
I'm happy with amarok now, the only features that I'm currently missing are 
visualisation and a nice eye-candy equalizer - no, I don't want to increase 
basses, I want these jumping bars back!!! :-))

Regards, 
Andreas

Am Freitag 02 Oktober 2009 14:04:20 schrieb Jeff Mitchell:
> İşbaran Akçayır wrote:
> > Martin Sandsmark wrote On 02-10-2009 15:28:
> >> On Friday 2. October 2009 10.09.25 İşbaran Akçayır wrote:
> >>> Actually most people are not interested in these fancy stuff..
> >>
> >> It is good to see that you have done an extensive study on Amarok users
> >> and their needs and wants. Care to share the raw data you've collected
> >> with us mere mortals? :-)
> >
> > Oh, so you have done an extensive study, and people think its important
> > for a music player to move some widgets or ability to change layout ?
> 
> Do you read all of the emails we get? Do you check every single bug
> report and feature request we get on Bugzilla? Do you read every review
> of Amarok that one can find around the Web?
> 
> No, didn't think so.
> 
> > then maybe some day it can scan some folders and put them in a playlist,
> > and for now a buggy scanning tool and a slow interface is enough ?
> 
> If you're having problems with the scanning, file bug reports. In the
> meantime, I'm starting to get really annoyed with these random
> statements about us not working on bug fixing and how supremely buggy
> scanning is, because I've spent the past 9 months doing precious little
> *but* fixing bugs, almost entirely within the collection, and reports
> from everyone but you is that scanning is working pretty damn well in 2.2.
> 
> To put it another way: stop trolling. Now.
> 
> > Of course they are fixing bugs, i'm not enemy of developers, maybe i'm
> > just too emotional about software i'm using. I cant accept this state of
> > amarok.
> 
> OK. Go use something else then. Might I suggest exaile, amaroq, or banshee.
> 
> >>> I dont really care if i can move the widgets around while amarok starts
> >>> in 2-3 minutes, eats 100% cpu while scanning collection, (also freezes
> >>> if you want to quit while scanning, leaves collectionscanner process
> >>> behind ..) slows down while resizing or changing layouts (this might be
> >>> related to kde) etc. etc. ..
> >>
> >> If you have bugs, see if they're already reported, or report them to the
> >> bug tracker, not on the mailing list.
> >
> > Of course, i just didnt like the "ooh 2.2 is out ! its awesome" shouts,
> > cause its not anywhere near 1.4
> 
> So go use a 1.4 clone. This is an annoying meme, because it ignores all
> the bazillion things that make Amarok 2.2 better simply because some
> person's favorite pet feature(s) is(/are) not in Amarok 2.2. And if you
> want to see Amarok 2 improve, dumping on it like that is not the right
> way to motivate developers.
> 
> > Its not like the 90's, people are using linux and of course amarok, (
> > they like it because of amarok, or they have to use it :) ) think of all
> > the windows head people switching to linux, do you think they know what
> > a bug is ?
> 
> Windows users? They damn well *should* know what a bug is.
> 
> > You're just making assumptions on how your software is,
> > its working for you, some geek people are filing bug reports, so it
> > should be fine.
> 
> Um. A difference between us and Windows? Bug reports for Amarok are in
> the open, and so is the progress on them.
> 
> --Jeff
> 
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