Amarok 2.2 "Sunjammer" released

[Eric Altendorf]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Martin Sandsmark <sandsmark at samfundet.no> wrote:
> On Friday 2. October 2009 10.09.25 İşbaran Akçayır wrote:
>> Actually most people are not interested in these fancy stuff..
>
> It is good to see that you have done an extensive study on Amarok users and
> their needs and wants. Care to share the raw data you've collected with us
> mere mortals? :-)

Please, I don't want to be argumentative, but it doesn't take a study
to figure out that people want a reliable collection scan, lack of
crashing, reliable sound backend integration, etc. -- basic
functionality -- before drag-and-drop's and widgets and gizmos.  It is
at its core a music player, and it should at least be able to do that
reliably, and for a long time, for many people, it has not.

That said, I'm mostly commenting on the attitude I see bouncing around
here a lot.  In fact, Amarok 2 has, in the past year or so, gone from
completely unusable to a pretty decent player.  In particular, it
seems to be better than anything else available for Linux.

My only really significant remaining gripes are:
- continuing scan issues / db corruption
- failure to play FLAC's from the beginning (a phonon bug, sigh)
- crashes a couple times a week, which are not a huge problem because
I can restart pretty quickly, but when I have friends over, I am
embarrassed by comments like "piece of crap open source junk, get
windows" :(


--eric

>> 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.
>
> So you imply that they haven't been fixing bugs? How do you explain the 654
> closed bugs, then? :-P
> I haven't really had Amarok crash in quite a while, which is weird considering
> that I'm following Git. :-D
>
> And in my experience, the performance has been much improved too (for example
> while scanning).
>
> Last but not least this release adds some basic functionalities that people
> are used to, like playing audio cds.
>
>> 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. ..
>
> If you have bugs, see if they're already reported, or report them to the bug
> tracker, not on the mailing list.
>
> And which widget style are you using?
>
>> 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.
>
> You seem to be the only one, if your bugs aren't already reported. :-P
>
> And most of the people I know are extremely happy with Amarok 2.2. :-D
>
>> I'll send bug reports, feedbacks, debug infos in my spare times about
>> these problems
>
> Then the developers will try to track down your bugs and fix them in *their*
> spare time.
>
>> 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
>
> Same to you!
>
> --
> Martin T. Sandsmark
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