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- jdhore1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28This looks amazing...I think i found my new favorite music player (when it comes out)...KDE4 seems like it might finally force me to make the move to KDE.
- Ub3rg33k, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24Apple stole Coverflow from Sun's Looking Glass concept. So what?
- DinX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18- Do you really sit there and rate all your songs
* Some of them
- stare at lyrics
* Yep, I actually listen music with lyrics worth reading
- and wonder what's going on at Magnatune or Last.fm
* Last.fm is great, I can't sum up the amount ofnew bands I got to know through it
I run Amarok under Gnome. - bettermentflux, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18My most favoritest music player. Still needs some love on the UI and oxygen icons are missing from the screen shot, but it's great to see it coming along. I'm digging the plasma bling going on at the bottom. Keep up the good work guys!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+19Do you know why Gnome sucks?
No thumbnail previews in file upload box!
http://aycu10.webshots.com/image/23969/2005908799363071431_rs.jpg - DinX, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14iTunes can't even touch this. Amarok is just perfect.
- ThorHJ, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14What is it with 3rd generation media players and trying to take over your whole screen when all you wanna do is listen to an MP3 someone sent you? I'd like all media players to default to a Winamp-like "compact" mode, and fan out extra boxes with features only when needed.
- Dementual, on 01/27/2008, -0/+11Why did this person get dugg down? It IS going to be available for Linux/Mac/Windows...
- Akkarin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13Your comment is, I totally agree.
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Amarok's team listens to its users, so that will never happen. Unless it somehow becomes uber-popular like Firefox.
- clickwir, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10And I'd like all media players to default to an Amarok-like full of info and actually useful for my needs setup and have everything there ready and waiting not have to click on fan out boxes to get to functions.
- jdhore1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8You have a CHOICE...If you want a fully featured player to listen to your whole library with, sync with your ipod, organize your library, etc, Rhythmbox and Amarok are excellent...If you want to listen to a single song someone sent you, use VLC, Totem or XMMS.
- sqrt7744, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8No.
- ThorHJ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Because throwing all the features at the user at once is the best way to design a UI...
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Kinda, only they left out the bloat and the ***** UI. And added a bunch of features. And made it open source.
So I guess it really isn't. - TheWriteGuy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9I use Amarok on my Ubuntu system, and love it in its current version. On the one hand, it's cool that they're incorporating all these features and visual bling. On the other, I fear it's going to devolve into a sloggy running, bloated mess that iTunes has become.
- dualscreenman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You can easily remove that tab, never to be "bothered" by it again.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I liked the UI as it was TBH. Though this doesn't look terrible.
- phantom_mullet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Let's go a step further here. If you look at the new dock for Leopard, Apple clearly "stole" the dock from Looking Glass.
See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv8VlpoK_g - Tyr7BE, on 10/10/2007, -11/+17Still looks cluttered. As much as I love the amount of eye candy going into KDE4, the UI is still a bit of a disaster. It's just a pretty disaster. I'll probably give it a go for a few months, and one day decide it's too disorganized and switch back to Gnome. Happened with KDE 3.x, no reason to think it won't happen with 4.x.
- FarcicalFart, on 10/10/2007, -12/+18Sweet! QT4, so it's going to be available for Linux/Mac/Windows.
- NerveBand, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Amarok is awesome. the Mac and Windows versions are what I am waiting for mainly though. It will be the first true cross platform media player with cross platform DB's.
- jefferai, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6To put you a bit at ease, we're as concerned with speed as you are. We've entirely ripped out and replaced our meta-information system for passing around track metadata in large part just to make it more efficient, and we're constantly looking at other parts of code and figuring out where our bottlenecks are and trying to remove them. I don't think you'll find A2.0 any longer to start up than 1.4, and hopefully it'll take less time.
- anjinash, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9I just got an iMac 2 weeks ago, and I love it.... BUT ... iTunes STILL runs like a gigantic pile of *****. Friggin Photoshop CS3 loads faster and is more responsive.
- ultra_lime, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I have always liked the features but never the layout.
- mbstrlbstr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8I use iTunes on a Mac every day at work, and it slows the computer down significantly. iTunes has a problem (along with safari) where it leaks memory, so even when you close the app, it is still using some RAM.
- BradleyBo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Shuffle your whole collection by making a dynamic playlist based on "all collection" playlist. Then, there will only be like 20 songs in the window at a time (depending on your config) but the whole collection will shuffle.
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I love Amarok, but 2.0 isn't really impressing me so far. I don't like the playlist getting squished into the column on the right like that - I can see why they're doing it, but all the information is confusing. Maybe if they used shades of black and grey (or base it on the KDE color scheme) it would be easier to digest.
Also, I like having customizable columns, like in 1.x. Hopefully you can still customize the information in the playlist. Can anyone confirm/deny?
Finally - it would be nice if it had better support for large playlists. Maybe the new version of SQlite being used will help, but I like to listen to my whole collection on shuffle sometimes, and there isn't anyway to do this in Amarok.
Anyway, Amarok is still the best, and I'm just nitpicking. Keep up the good work, guys! - jrsims, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Amarok 2.0 + KDE 4 = Switch from Gnome.
- JonLatane, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Um... Dude. Obviously you haven't been using Macs very long. When you "close" the app, it is SUPPOSED to continue running in the Dock. Some don't (like iPhoto) which is a bit annoying in that it makes the software less predictable, but Safari, iTunes, iChat, iCal, Terminal, and many many others all have this behavior. The software stays in RAM so that when you click on Safari after you've already started it, a window appears before you even had a chance to think about it. Same with iTunes. If you want to make them stop consuming memory, just right-click on the Dock icon and select "Quit" or bring the application to the front and press Cmd+Q. You can tell if they're running by the arrow on the Dock.
- jefferai, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I know you find it hard to believe, but people (by which I mean the majority of people we ever hear from) want the Magnatune store. In fact, people want all sorts of other fair, artist-friendly stores to be available through Amarok as well. And dualscreenman is perfectly correct -- remove the tab if you don't like it.
- estvir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4As much as I like Amarok (More or less the only media player I use when on Linux though occasionally others like Rythombox) this thing has so many ugly points but hopefully they're taken care of by the time it's final.
- sqrt7744, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5yeah that is annoying but it has nothing to do with the comment you are replying to or the article in question, so why are you commenting here? Take it to the gnome mailing list.
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Amarok supports plugins, so it's as good as foobar there. The sound quality isn't that big of a deal; try doing a blind test some time, I'm sure most of it's in your imagination. It also comes with a good UI by default, and I haven't seen any foobar themes that beat Amarok's UI. And Amarok isn't a ram hog either.
- PostedOval, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I love Amarok on Ubuntu. One of my favorite lesser known features is its ability to automatically change the Display photo you use in MSN Messenger (aMSN client) to the album cover, as well as the current song title playing. SPIFFY!
- johlin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I would love to use KDE but I can't stand the KDE interface. Amarok looks really really great though.
- aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5... have you actually used iTunes in windows? It is slow as hell. On my semi-recent computer (1.6ghz Pentium M, 1.25gb RAM), if I was running iTunes, nothing else would run well, even Opera would be noticably slower, and even running an old game (like Starcraft) would be impossible without quitting iTunes.
iTunes = a piece of ***** (on Windows, I have never used it on a Mac) - burty89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That would be because its still in development, its too early to be commenting on the GUI.
- DarkDx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I thought foobar2000 was closed source
- Corrosionx, on 10/10/2007, -6/+10The eye-candy is nice, but why does the interface still look like crap?
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I dunno if you didn't read the article or if you're just not so good at the whole reading comprehension thing, but he said theat they're focusing on coding the thing before they polish the UI. As for KDE4, that's another story - there's way too much stuff that just ends up being redundant, and the UI guidelines suck. Hopefully they'll surprise me, but... I don't have high hopes.
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Winamp and Foobar suck. More plugins =/= better applications. Amarok actually has a good UI by default, and more features than FB/WA.
- demonstar55, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Amarok is the best music player I've ever used, too bad this is down so I can't see how it's progressing :(
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Coverflow is just a gimmick anyway. Still, it would be nice to see them coming up with something pretty that's better as well. Personally, I'd like a nice looking full screen display.
- lengau, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I love the Amarok 1.4 UI, but this looks like it might be even better.
- manicallday, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What are you talking about? You really have no idea what you're talking about.
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I don't see how it stole anything (except for Coverflow, which isn't a major feature.)
- ihatethedekoys, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I really don't like the redesign. The playlist is way too small horizontal wise. And the Collection and Context menus don't need to be seen at the same times. They should have stuck with the original layout, but fine-tuned it.
- spiffytech, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I rate no songs, rarely see lyrics, and don't use last.fm. However, I love the playlist format. Amarok is the only jukebox program I've seen that puts the focus on the playlist, rather than the library. I can see my whole library at once, navigate it without searching, while still focusing on my playlist. I opened Amarok to play music, not stare at my collection.
It also has nice features that I haven't seen elsewhere, such as "queue track" and "stop playing after track". Crossfading, cover art fetching, etc. all make Amarok my favorite music player. - bartcerneels, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Just change it to your liking then, there is nothing stopping you from customizing the look-and-feel of KDE. In fact we strive to create a usable and clean looking but very flexible desktop environment.
I have my desktop set up with a desktop menu bar (mac OS style) and the kicker (containing taskbar and some quickstart icons) on the right side using auto-hiding. In addition to that I have beryl running all the time and only show minimised windows in the taskbar.
So you see, more than enough options for customisation. -
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