[Feedback] Windows version

[James Heaver]

On 04/03/07, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 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.

Even without the networked environment you could run amarok through
remote X and Pulseaudio.

Run amarok in VMWare, but access it through VMWare's virtual netwrok.


Love and overkill
James
(I have not tried it, and if you have I suggest you keep your fetish
to yourself)