And here it cometh: Amarok Clone No. 6

[Enrico Ros]

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 16:39:11 Casey Link wrote:
> > I cannot understand why hate Amarok 2 ?!
> 
> It's quite simple really, this list of deductive (ok, maybe more
> inductive) proofs that should explain once and for all why people hate
> Amarok 2.

I hope this list was just for fun! ;-)

In case it wasn't then there is some lack of awareness of the pain that people 
felt. If this is not the case, you skip this mail as it contains some old 
history of an Amarok (2.2+) lover.


I think that Amarok TODAY is great, but going back to the Amarok 2.0 days 
right where the ill feelings started, there are 3 strong pains I went through:

 * 2.0 made me LOSE my database  with all ratings and playcounts - then some 
of the following releases screwed it again, and I didn't find the time to rate 
4000 songs anymore - 4 years of dedication.. lost

 * 2.0 did not play music - I was told to install gstreamer, xine, phonon, 
kdelibs, everything - a music player that didn't make any sound

 * 2.0 crashed a lot (expecially when I was playing on public places, so I 
could get more blames) - I resorted using mplayer from the command line


Each one of those, alone, was telling me to drop Amarok as my friends did, but 
I'm so much in love and I had to persist and try again, try again, try again.


If I buy the new year's version of my Nokia phone it's because it is better, 
the same if I buy a new car, the same when I upgraded to Firefox 3, the same 
when I installed OpenOffice 3. Can you guess were I'm heading?

Amarok 2.0 was so much a turn down from the 1.4 days that people just behave 
as expected:
 1. look for another brand, or
 2. stay with the same brand with little anger, or
 3. love Amarok 2.0

Today most of the people I know are moving back from 1 or 2 to 3, I was really 
happy seeing one of my friends buying an Amarok shirt at Fosdem ;-)


In the end I leaned a lot. I experienced ill feelings, now they're gone, I see 
how complex the management of the best music player around can be, I 
understand better the dynamics of opensource vs users, and I love Amarok more 
than ever ;-)

Enrico


> Argument from Lack of Knowledge
> (1) Some people have only used Amarok 1.4
> (2) Before one can know the differences between two programs, one must use
> both (3) Some people do not know the differences between Amarok 1.4 and 2
> (4) These people rely on ignorance and faulty analysis when judging Amarok
> 2, (5) Some of these faulty judgments decide Amarok 2 blows hard
> Therefore, (5), some people hate Amarok 2
> 
> Argument from Myopia
> (1) Some people have bad to little foresight
> (2) These people cannot see what might be in their better self interest
> (3) These people appeal to some other Argument against Amarok 2
> Therefore, (4), these people hate Amarok 2
> 
> Argument from Groupthink
> (1) The general consensus about Amarok 2.0 was negative
> (2) Consensus seeking can cause people to share common myths and
> misconceptions. (3) There exist misconceptions and myths about Amarok
> version x, where x > 2.0 (4) Appeal to Argument from Lack of Knowledge
> Therefore, (5), some people hate Amarok 2
> 
> Argument from Institutionalism
> (1) The prime task of the group is self-preservation and self-perpetuation
> (2) Change is undoubtedly a threat to the group
> (3) Amarok 2 is a change from Amarok 1.4
> (4) Threats are bad
> Therefore, (5),  people hate Amarok 2
> 
> [A] The arguments were extrapolated from Sandra Hagevik article
> "Living with Constant Change"  http://is.gd/create.php
> [B]
> http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121495416/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRE
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