[Feedback] Windows version

[Colin Guthrie]

Nick Tryon wrote:
> On 3/3/07, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>> 1) Use VMWare: have a minimal Linux install and run Amarok that way.
>> or
>> 2) Use a XServer/VNC Client and rum Amarok on a remote machine and use
>> the PulseAudio output system for Xine to output the sound on your
>> Windows machine which runs a PulseAudio daemon.
>>
>> Not tested either method but both /should/ work.
> 
> Like this:  http://people.fruitsalad.org/lauri/krazykiwi/archives/178-roKin-on-Windows.html
> ?
> 
> I remembered seeing it some time last year.  I would've replied
> sooner, but the #amarok channel bot is down and I couldn't look it up
> quite so easily.  (But it turned out to be the second result with
> gg:amarok windows bsd X11

Indeed something like that yes :) Tho' with PulseAudio, one of the early
paragraphs:

"For the past while then, I've been running remote X logins to one of my
workstations, and having the best of both worlds, all my favourite X
apps, at all the resolution I can muster. That left
just one thing I couldn't do, use amaroK, because routing sound around
the network is quite a task."

is IMO obsoleted. PulseAudio (although I've not tested it on Windows)
should solve that problem very nicely, making it easy to use another
workstation on your network like any other app. rather than involve
VMWare etc. (unless you want the portability of running it outsite a
networked environment of course.

Col