KDE Amarok 2.7 Coming Very Soon With New Features

[GreatEmerald]

Actually, I just decided to try out the VLC backend again to see if changing mimetypes would indeed work, and apparently the MIDI issues with the backend have been fixed while I was not looking! That's pretty awesome! It now recognises MIDI files and can play them back, just like GStreamer. The difference being that VLC is using FluidSynth and GStreamer is using Timidity. And I actually like FluidSynth a bit more... Now if only Amarok was to add MIDI files to the music collection.

[cardboard]

I must live in an alternate dimension. Horrible UI? Amarok's UI is my favorite. It's so simple. Sources on one side, playlist on the other. Click on a source and it gets dumped into a playlist. Easy. Though I wish the sources panel was tabbed like in Clementine, instead of hierarchical. It's annoying having to go back to the root menu to switch to internet streams, instead of just tabbing between sources (I'm sure there are people that prefer not having a tab bar taking up space...). But it's not a big deal. I also use phonon-VLC.



Amarok does have problems, but the UI isn't one of them.

[asdx]

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.

Are you fucking retarded? Where did I said something bad about Amarok? I like Amarok, why don't you direct your crappy comments to someone else? Fucking moron.

[Awesomeness]

Now if only Amarok was to add MIDI files to the music collection.

File a bug report.The Amarok guys are one of the more active teams within KDE.
The worst experience I had with a bug report was that they fixed the bug but forgot to mark the report as fixed.

[bug77]

Are you fucking retarded? Where did I said something bad about Amarok? I like Amarok, why don't you direct your crappy comments to someone else? Fucking moron.

That wasn't directed at you, but at people complaining Amarok isn't the greatest player ever. I was trying to point out that anyone of us can find a player we don't like, yet we don't go chasing for threads complaining about them.
Thanks for the insult, though.

[asdx]

That wasn't directed at you, but at people complaining Amarok isn't the greatest player ever. I was trying to point out that anyone of us can find a player we don't like, yet we don't go chasing for threads complaining about them.
Thanks for the insult, though.

Sorry. My bad. I thought it was directed at me. I apologize and I retract from what I said. Won't happen again.

Sorry.

[Apopas]

I'm using KDE since version 3. I do not like players covering a big annoying window. I always used Audacious (yes, gtk). It does what it have to do, play music. Small interface, filters, plugins, equalizer, playlist, and skinnable.

I recommend you to give a try to qmmp.

[YAFU]

You could give qmmp a try. It's WinAMP lile Linux media player written in Qt.

I recommend you to give a try to qmmp.

Thank you both. Yes, qmmp is the kind of player I was referring to (small interface). But I really feel comfortable with Audacious which was the first one I used many years ago and I have not problem using gtk things. Audacious also uses Winamp 2 Skins.
Thank you.

[crispy]

I must live in an alternate dimension. Horrible UI? Amarok's UI is my favorite. It's so simple. Sources on one side, playlist on the other. Click on a source and it gets dumped into a playlist. Easy. Though I wish the sources panel was tabbed like in Clementine, instead of hierarchical. It's annoying having to go back to the root menu to switch to internet streams, instead of just tabbing between sources (I'm sure there are people that prefer not having a tab bar taking up space...). But it's not a big deal. I also use phonon-VLC.



Amarok does have problems, but the UI isn't one of them.

What happened to the horrible lyric thing in the middle?

[bug77]

What happened to the horrible lyric thing in the middle?

This may come as a shock, but that's configurable. You can actually not display it.