extragear/multimedia/amarok/src

[Patrick Spendrin]

Sven Krohlas schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>> Change window caption to 'Amarok 2 beta' on Mac, as discussed.
> 
> so, what about Windows? I really vote for doing the same there.
> 
> I just tested the latest nightly build:
> 
> *The installer is nice, but still very uncommon for Windows installers
> (asking stuff like developer/enduser options, mirrors, confirmation for
> automatically selected packages, etc).
> 
> *You have to manually install gpg to make script installing work without
> error messages. No ordinary user will get that idea.
---> that is an error of ghns iirc - the "error" message is a warning 
instead but it looks like an error message.
> 
> *Also you have to install special mp3 codecs manually (those might get
> integrated into the installer soon)
> 
> *An error message got hidden on startup under the splash screen. So I
> was not able to read it. Pressing enter made it go away (Hooray!).
see below.
> 
> *Afterwards i was greeted by a bunch of errors. Something about beining
> unable to read from a device... maybe that's related to the virtual machine
> that Windows is running in. I don't know.
> 
> *Same (?) error when trying to setup a collection/opening configure screen:
> Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters: 75b0bf7c 4 75b0bf7c 75b0bf7c
> (but setting up the collection works, rescan seems to be quite fast, but I have
> no large collection to do real tests there)
These above errors all depend on the same and are KDE on Windows wide. 
If you have an unmounted CD-Drive/Card-Reader etc. you will get one 
error for each.
> 
> *generally it runs very slow (maybe of course partly due to the remote vm for me,
> but I also got that report from users running it natively on a local machine),
> startup time felt high (without having measured it exactly).
I still haven't found out what makes startup so slow - but this seems to 
be a more general problem.
> 
> *No playback: Too many errors encountered in playlist. Playback stopped.
> I tested ogg, cbr mp3, vbr mp3 and several mp3 streams. VLC plays fine.
As you might know, vlc works differently - we use DirectShow at the 
moment - and I am not sure one will ever get a clean way of integrating 
all codecs except with a huge amount of work.
> 
> *last.fm is still missing from that build (I thought that was fixed?)
> 
> *OSD-Preview: I'm unable to click any buttons while it is active. No matter
> where I click I drag the osd. ESC-key works to make the preview disappear.
> 
> *But: no crash during testing. That's really pretty cool.
> 
> 
> Summary: some usability problems, some smaller (?) bugs, but most importantly: I
> was not able to make it play a single music file. It didn't get much testing.
> So I'd suggest calling it Beta on Windows, too and target an official stable
> release with 2.1, maybe after a call for Windows testers?
I am not really sure testers are needed as you already pointed out most 
of the bugs without spending to much time on it.
> 
> cu
regards,
Patrick


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