Why I can't use Amarok

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

I was a happy user of Amarok 1.4.x, but since Amarok 2.x, I've been getting a
lot of compatibility problems with it, which made it use painful. As a result,
I've been mostly using the VLC player recently, which isn't perfect, but is
less quirky.

What I need from Amarok is to have a Phonon backend that will:

1. Play all files I throw at it
- .mp3, .ogg, .flv, .mp4, .mod/.s3m/.xm/.it, .avi, etc. Phonon-gstreamer is
  unable to play .mp4 files due to this bug -
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267319 - and
Phonon-VLC was much more quirky in this respect last time I tried.

2. Be able to play streamed or remote media like the one that is present in
Last.fm, Magnatune or Jamendo (all of which have Amarok interfaces). Here
Phonon-gstreamer is much worse (due to an unreleased bug fix), and phonon-vlc
is better.

As a result, it seems that phonon is a quirky abstraction (see
http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/49510.html ) that completely ruins the
Amarok experience for me. Can anyone look into releasing new stable versions
of the phonon backends with all these problems fixed? 

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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