Amarok 2.2 "Sunjammer" released

[İşbaran Akçayır]

Ben K wrote On 02-10-2009 11:47:
>> Actually most people are not interested in these fancy stuff
>
> That's easy to say now that the fancy stuff is here. In reality lots of
> people, myself including have been clamouring for various features ever
> since 2.0 was released sans various 1.4 features.
>
> As for 2-3 minute load times, and 100% CPU usage, I haven't seen anything of
> the kind. Given that  I can remember when I used to load Amarok 1.4 and go
> make a sandwich while it took 5 minutes to load, I think 2.2 is a huge
> improvement.

To improve something, you should first reach the state where you left.
Amarok 2 started from nearly zero, and anything is an improvement over 
zero. But the improvements announced are not improvements over 1.4.

For your situation i cant comment really, i've never experienced a 5 
minute start time with any amarok even with a huge collection and with 
my old slower computers.


> 2009/10/2 İşbaran Akçayır<isbaran at gmail.com>
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>> Lydia Pintscher wrote On 01-10-2009 18:06:
>>> The Amarok team is proud to announce the release of Amarok 2.2
>>> including a lot of goodies you all have been waiting for like sorting
>>> in the playlist and the ability to change Amarok's layout.
>>
>> Actually most people are not interested in these fancy stuff.. i've been
>> watching amarok2 from the beginning closely, and i think you should
>> really start concentrating on crashes, performance and important very
>> best and basic functionalities of amarok that people are used to.
>>
>> I dont really care if i can move the widgets around while amarok starts
>> in 2-3 minutes, eats 100% cpu while scanning collection, (also freezes
>> if you want to quit while scanning, leaves collectionscanner process
>> behind ..) slows down while resizing or changing layouts (this might be
>> related to kde) etc. etc. ..
>>
>> I love amarok too, i'm proud of it also, but i'm sure i'm not the only
>> person experiencing these major problems, you cant rock the world this
>> way, most of the pple i know, started thinking about another lightweight
>> alternative.
>>
>> I'll send bug reports, feedbacks, debug infos in my spare times about
>> these problems, but some of them have been staying there for ages and i
>> think you too are aware of them from the beginning, so here comes the
>> first paragraph i wrote again
>>
>> best wishes, and regards
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