Senior Member
LOL you are funny. As someone already stated during the first post; Amarok is such a piece of shit. Draing the CPU while eating RAM and exposing kernel I/O bugs.Originally Posted by pingufunkybeat
Actually, I use KDE because it works, works the way I like it, and works better than the competition.
You're just frustrated because the software YOU use does not let you do the things you want. Instead of switching, you want everybody to be stuck to a feature-less monopoly just so you don't feel inferior.
AMAROK IS NOONES COMPETItItION BUT EVERYONES LAUGH. I really hope the decreasing number of contributors have the moral to continue to the walk down boulevard of FAIL. Each new release brings more funny shit. And my audio player? It works fine, no need for abstration layers or oversized computers.
Senior Member
You know, if you didn't make such ridiculous claims, maybe some fool out there might even believe you.
This way, you're just making excellent advertisement for Qt and KDE programs. If you're piling on such bile with no arguments, it is probably good software and you're jealous!
Senior Member
GStreamer had the bug since forever. In case you refer to the same bug I encountered, it's been there since years! Somehow I get the impression that fixing the VLC back-end would happen sooner.
Maybe it's just a modification as little as adding the MIME type to /usr/share/kde4/services/phononbackends/vlc.desktop (location may vary depending on distribution). You can try it yourself right now.
Phoronix Member
Thats the *nix way, it's sort of weird for a Linux enthusiast to be whining about it.
Thanks to this topic I installed Clementine, it seems to be working better than the alternatives for me (I'm running wheezy, so its possible other media players are better when updated). I don't really care much about the RAM/CPU usage, though I'm not sure its really the fault of the player that it can cripple a system by scanning for and playing music, but for arguments sake:-
Code:allan@ub3r:~$ top -p 3103 top - 03:13:15 up 1:35, 6 users, load average: 0.07, 0.14, 0.13 Tasks: 1 total, 0 running, 1 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 2.7 us, 0.9 sy, 0.0 ni, 96.2 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 16361996 total, 2881236 used, 13480760 free, 46396 buffers KiB Swap: 5105660 total, 0 used, 5105660 free, 1678760 cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3103 allan 20 0 1120m 136m 40m S 5.0 0.9 4:32.95 clementine
Junior Member
Ban funkSTAR
From now on, I will ignore any forum thread with funkSTAR present, because he is such a butthurt asshole in most of his posts and is unnecessarily attacking others in an aggressive manner. A GNOME 3 user that actually considers lack of configurability a feature. Go back to MAC OS X that's built idiot-proof and hence is more suitable for you.
Seriously, look at his posts. The majority of them are 10% opinion and 90% calling names to others. Did KDE kill his cat or something?
Ban him, please.
Senior Member
I just have him in my ignore list. It helps a little.
Senior Member
Stop feeding the troll.
Note to troll: configurism is not a word, even if it is one of your memes (only one?).
Senior Member
I run KDE 4.8.4 on archlinux x86_64, I'm currently using Amarok 2.6.0 with phonon-vlc backend, it works just great. I love it.
Can't wait for Amarok 2.7.
Senior Member
Kubuntu 12.10 w/ KDE 4.10beta here. Can't think of anything I wanted Amarok to do and it didn't. Fwiw, I only play from local collections as spotify et.al. are not available over here.
I won't say it's better/worse than other players. With so many options, I'm sure anyone can pick a quarrel with a player or two. Who cares, you're not supposed to like them all. Use whatever you like. You think it uses too much RAM or CPU? Open a bug. Ask for your money back. Get a life.
Phoronix Member
I used to love amarok myself back in 1. but the new amarok i can't stand.
The UI is worse and gives me headaches.
I think clementine is way better.
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