[Feedback] Where can one get help with Amarok if one DO NOT use KDE ?

[Jeff Mitchell]

Okay, to clear up a few things:

Amarok does not have any native CD ripping support.

Amarok will support ripping your CDs *indirectly* through the audiocd 
kioslave.

This is not an attempt to force one onto KDE.  It's just making use of the 
fact that Amarok supports kioslaves, and there happens to be this one 
kioslave that will rip CDs transparently.

To do this you'll generally need the kdemultimedia package, and probably the 
kdebase package too.

If you don't want to install this package you are not missing out on a single 
feature of Amarok.  It is not Amarok which does the CD ripping, it's the 
kioslave...Amarok is just telling the kioslave where to put the files.

So, as everyone else has said, this is not an attempt at lock-in or anything 
sordid like that.  If the audiocd kioslave didn't exist, Amarok wouldn't have 
any ripping support at all.  But it does exist, so Amarok can (because of the 
way kioslaves work in the first place) use it as a source of files to move 
into the collection.  There's no magic here, it's a simple copy( src_url, 
dst_url ) and the KDE libraries handle the rest.

I'm sorry that you got the wrong impresion about all this, but hopefully that 
has cleared things up.

--Jeff