[Feedback] What did you do with Amarok?

[Eric Altendorf]

Well, it would be nice if Amarok could play FLACs from the beginning.
Like, really, the beginning.

It would also be nice if it didn't consistently fail to read FLAC
metadata (possibly solved in recent versions I've tried)

It would be nice if having 200 compilation albums didn't litter the
artists list with 3000 random artists.  (Finally solved, yay.  Amarok
2 was totally unusable before "Various Artists" came back.)

It would be nice if Amarok didn't try to create symlinks on vfat
filesystems on ipods when you try to sync them.  Not only does Amarok
manage to corrupt the ipod, but in the process it throws up several
thousand "Can't create symlink" dialog boxes.  Useful.

It would be nice if album art could be loaded at some size larger than
the miniscule default.


And yes, I have filed detailed bug reports for the more severe of these issues.

Overall, yeah, Amarok2 killed a lot of good features, provided no
valuable new features, and most of all, broke a lot of basic
functionality.  The most recent versions I've picked up have be
re-approaching the "usable" state, so I do have hope for Amarok2 some
day being good again, but man things have sucked really bad for a long
time.


--eric


On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Ian Monroe<ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Gary
> Steinert<gary.steinert.ml at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 27 July 2009 01:25:06 mail at enricojoerns.de wrote:
>>> Enrico Jörns sent a message using the contact form at
>>> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>>>
>>> I just want to point out very quickly how dissapointed I am after having
>>> used the 2nd generation of Amarok.
>>> How could you remove all the very good things that made Amarok to my
>>> veryvery favourite music player?
>>>
>>> I was nearly shocked how bad 2.1 is!
>>>
>>> No possibilty to delete files out of playlist
>> This has been part of the playlist since 2.0 was released IIRC. Either right
>> click -> Remove from Playlist or use the icon at the bottom of the playlist.
>
> He means delete files.
>
>>> No possibility to hide the contex window (heard fixed now!?)
>>> No playlist shuffle option (or too much hided?)
>> Shuffle and repeat are under the Playlist menu. We're working on getting it into
>> the main window, but the playlist will need a bit of a rethink before we will
>> be able to manage it without cluttering the screen too much.
>
> Amarok 2.1 doesn't have a shuffle feature, though 2.2 will.
>
>>> No more possibility to easy rename id3 in playlist for multiple songs..
>> This is working at least in trunk. Never had call to test it before now so I
>> don't know what its like in 2.1
>
> Well its certainly not as easy as in Amarok 1.4.
>
>>> Hardly any configuration for everything
>> Like what exactly? Because our audio is handled by phonon, a lot of the audio
>> settings have moved to the global KDE settings.
>
> And Amarok 2.2's whole layout will be configurable. :)
>
>>> ...and many more of those little nice things that brought Amarok 1.4 along!
>> We have lost a few features, but we haven't taken anything out of Amarok
>> without careful consideration. There are features that we haven't been able to
>> implement yet due to other restrictions. Like the graphic equaliser which,
>> until recently was not supported by phonon.
>>
>> But if you take a look at 2.1, you'll find a great deal of new and interesting
>> features, such as a big increase in the number of internet services that you
>> can access right from within Amarok. And a new, more powerful scripting
>> interface that will allow a whole new array of scripts to be written.
>>
>>>
>>> So, sorry, but as long as I can, I will try to youse the old Amarok, hope
>>> it will run in 4.0 too...
>>>
>>> Please bring back life to Amarok! There are so many people who wish that!
>> Amarok is very much alive =) It's just evolved.
>
> I agree. :) Amarok 2.1 already has everything I need, outside of some
> regressions with the dynamic playlist which I'm working on now.
>
> Ian
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