RFC: Let's make Amarok2 actually play music!

[Dan Meltzer]

On Thursday 13 September 2007 6:08:59 am Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Samstag 01 September 2007 schrieb Mark Kretschmann:
> > Hey all,
>
> Hi Mark!
>
> [...]
>
> > Personally I need a collection, and a playlist, and I need the thing
> > to actually play music without crashing. Then I would consider
> > switching to Amarok2. What about you?
>
> - dynamic playlist with possibility to drop in own wishes just as I have
> it with Amarok 1.4
>
> - lyrics
>
> - co-existance witt Amarok 1.4.7 in case I need a feature of it that is
> not yet implemented in Amarok 2, maybe Amarok 2 should copy the Amarok
> 1.4.7 database to a different file on first startup?
>
> - nice and robust playback like with xine engine ;-) (except for rare
> skipping of a track when crossfading - this could better as I raised the
> crossfade time)
>
> I also would like to have magnatune.com and lastfm support, but if that
> comes in 2.1 in the not to distant future after 2.0 that would be okay
> for me. Means I could live without those for a while or use Amarok 1.4.7
> if I need them.
>
> I do not care very much about resource utilization, cause I think Amarok
> 1.4.7 does quite fine already. It nicely plays on my old rusy ThinkPad
> T23 Amarok machine while it usually is running at 700 MHz instead of the
> maximum of 1.13 GHz and whenever I looked it didn't really use much CPU
> power either.
>
> Regards,

You completely misunderstood the point of this post (as did most repliers).

This was not a "what do you want in 2.0 post" for the general public.  This 
was a post for developers (and beta testers) to see what exactly 
they /needed/ to start using Amarok to play music on a daily basis.

Dan,