amaroK has changed too much for me

[Scott Winslow]

Thanks Nikolaj, you were correct that it was 2.0.2, and I verified that
2.1.1 is available for my distro (Ubuntu 9.04). I will try again. Sorry
for jumping the gun, next time I'll make sure I've done some more
homework first.

Scott


On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:18 +0200, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
> We are sorry to hear that. Depending on which distro you are using,
> you have likely been upgraded to Amarok 2.0.2. Amarok 2.0 is very much
> a framework release (and we advertised them as such) and as such the
> initial versions were quite rough and missing many features. We have
> recently released versions 2.1.0 and 2.1.1
> (http://amarok.kde.org/de/node/675) which might be available for your
> distro, and while they don't bring back all features, they are
> _massive_ improvements over 2.0.2 in nearly every possible way.
> 
> Also, we are already working very hard on Amarok 2.2 and you can find
> a preview of some of the stuff that will go into that here:
> http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1065-Amarok-2.2-development,-one-week-in.html
> 
> - Nikolaj
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Scott Winslow<scott at winslow.net> wrote:
> > The app is so different since my distribution upgraded it that I find it
> > virtually unusable. It looks really dumbed down and trivial, and so many
> > configuration options seem to have disappeared. I used to really like using
> > the moodbar "plugin", now I can't even figure out how I'd enable it. It used
> > to auto rank songs by number of listens and incomplete and so on, now I
> > can't tell if it's still doing it, and I can't seem to even control the
> > columns displayed for the playlist. And the the applets work now is really
> > confusing. How does anyone figure out how to do things if not all options
> > are accessible in a consistent fashion?
> >
> > I gave it a shot, but I think I'm going to have to look at other players.
> >
> >
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