Amarok : I can't live without it

[Teo Mrnjavac]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 20:27, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: alexandre hagen <hagen.discus at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:51 PM
> Subject: Amarok : I can't live without it
> To: kretschmann at kde.org
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm french student and I write you to say thanks you for this
> wonderful Software.
> I use Amarok every time and I like all in Amarok.
> I have some questions:
> - I would like know if you had stop the development of Amarok on MAC OS X.
> Amarok on Mac would be perfect thing. I don't like Itunes with its
> proprietary codecs and for me Amarok is very better.
> In fact I've a lot Flac and Ogg files types and we can't read it on
> Itunes or only with Itunes plug-in.
> - If you had stop the project on Mac OS X could you tell me why ? Did
> you have pressure from Apple ? or It's just a financial problems ?
> Maybe it's ideological you prefer develop to open OS.
> In present time I use only Linux (Ubuntu et Debain), but in the future
> I will use MAC and I wish could use Amarok like on linux.
> I think many people are in the situation.

Hello,
Mark has taken the liberty of forwarding your email to the rest of the
Amarok team.
We are happy to hear our efforts are appreciated.
We never really decided to stop Amarok development on the Mac
platform, we would actually very much like seeing Amarok on as many
platforms as possible. There is nothing like pressure or lack of money
or ideology involved, the problem is much simpler: lack of developers.
We currently don't have any developers running Mac OS X, so there's
nobody to actually code and test the thing on Mac.
Amarok packages for Mac OS X are available through Macports [1] or
Fink [2] (the package on Macports seems to be more recent than the one
on Fink, but still a little behind), and while we accept both bug
reports and patches from Mac users, we currently don't have the
manpower to do much more than that to provide a good user experience
on Mac.
I'm sorry I cannot give you better news for now.

[1] http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=amarok
[2] http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php?summary=amarok2

Cheers,
-- 
Teo Mrnjavac
Amarok developer