Many thanks for Amarok !

[Donn Washburn]

On 01/22/2010 04:53 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Mark Kretschmann at 22/01/10 08:37 did gyre and gimble:
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>> 2010/1/22 Nicolas Lécureuil<nlecureuil at mandriva.com>:
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>>> Le Vendredi 22 Janvier 2010 00:03:51, Donn Washburn a écrit :
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>>>> On 01/21/2010 04:19 PM, Olivier Méjean wrote:
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>>>>> I've just installed Amarok 2.2.2 on my Mandriva 2010 and I've installed
>>>>> some scripts and it just works !!
>>>>>
>>>>> So really many thanks for Amarok that really rocks !! I really enjoy it,
>>>>> it is so easy to use ! I hope there will be soon an equalizer and it
>>>>> will be perfect.
>>>>>
>>>>> Keep on doing such a good work. I will be happy to show my friends how
>>>>> Amarok is good.
>>>>>            
>>>> My version of 2.2.2 has a EQ.  Look under Setting for a EQ that is
>>>> selector of type of music Bass, Live, and more.
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>>> But only works with xine backend iirc.
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>> Well, xine is the only backend you should use anyway. All others are
>> (even more) buggy.
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> Over at Mandriva we've been working hard to get the gstreamer backend
> into good shape - lots of fixes have been committed upstream in the last
> year or so (I even committed a few over the last few days). As we ship
> PA by default (cue rants etc. :p) and xine's PA support is rubbish,
> gstreamer is a better choice. I also believe that some embedded
> platforms are using gstreamer too (N900?) which is not directly related
> to Amarok but.... :)
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>> Good news is, a new backend is being worked on. Phonon-VLC will fix
>> all problems, and cure world hunger.
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> Yeah I'm interested in this one. While I still thing that gstreamer is a
> better "fit" from a technology perspective, I really like VLC generally.
> Do you know if it's going to be kept in tree at kdesupport any time
> soon? I'd like to make sure I add the necessary glue for PA support
> (which with an unreleased patch I have is now pretty minimal - just a
> couple checks at the beginning of the backend loading and that's all)
> but as the headers are private, it needs to be in-tree for that to work.
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> Col
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What is the problem with xine?  It seems every distro is avoiding xine.  
It has worked better than gstreamer for years.

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