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- SanjayM, on 12/24/2007, -5/+57If iTunes and WinAmp had a crack baby, Amarok would be it.
Stunning software, nothing else even touches it. - lengau, on 12/24/2007, -5/+32No. NO other music library comes even close to competing with Amarok. I've tried iTunes and WinAmp, along with Foobar2000, and Windows Media Player, and (insert the names of dozens of media players here). None of them even come close to Amarok.
- mrjit, on 12/24/2007, -0/+23I frigging love Amarok. I honestly started using Linux on my desktops JUST for Amarok.
- armo, on 12/24/2007, -0/+21The context strip has to be my favourite feature. I've found so many new artists and rediscovered so much of my music through the suggested songs.
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/armo_2007/ ... - DiggTheWii, on 12/24/2007, -5/+24It may be the best Linux player, but the absolute best Windows media player is foobar2000. Playing a FLAC file right now and using 12 megabytes of RAM. Stellar.
Highly skinnable, extensible, and lightweight.
http://foobar2000.org - lengau, on 12/24/2007, -0/+15I really thought there was a version for Linux...
- MWeather, on 12/24/2007, -2/+17I often ask myself why quality software isn't available on Windows.
- Ellipsys, on 12/24/2007, -0/+14I hear that it is the first music player/manager EVER to interface with the iTouch/iPhone besides iTunes. This alone is enough reason for me to switch over to use it when it arrives for Windows, and make it my main player in Linux.
- wisam, on 12/24/2007, -1/+15I must be missing something. Am I the only one hating the way you have to navigate your music in Amarok? Drop menus and collapsing tree view is very annoying way to navigate through your library in my opinion. The way I see it, Rhymbox, musikcube and iTunes all do it the right way. Am I missing something here? Is there way way to navigate your music through separate Artist/Album/Track panes in Amarok?
- zplus, on 12/24/2007, -1/+14foobar is like ramen noodles. Amarok is a steak and lobster dinner.
- lengau, on 12/24/2007, -0/+12It's also the first EVER (including iTunes) to allow wireless syncing with the iTouch.
- kazamx, on 12/24/2007, -0/+11Its coming to Mac and Windows soon too. The 2.0 release will be cross platform.
- Sneakydave, on 12/24/2007, -5/+16Its certainly the best of the standard players but eventually you get to a point where you cant use it because it uses ~500mb of RAM and is very sluggish when your music collection grows sufficiently. At that point your forced to learn to use foobar2000 - the best music player by a very long way since it can be anything you want it to be. Its tailored to you while at the same time uses very few resources. The only problem is that it takes time to learn and even longer to learn well since you build it yourself by coding various components in specific ways.
As a guide, RAM usage with 80k tracks:
itunes: 1.2gb
winamp: 700mb
mediamonkey: 650mb
amarok: 500mb
foobar2000: 4mb - skywake, on 12/24/2007, -0/+11http://amarok.kde.org/features
- estvir, on 12/24/2007, -2/+12Surely this could've been even the slighest bit more indepth?
- luizlizard, on 12/24/2007, -0/+10what?
- VinceNoir, on 12/24/2007, -2/+12If you're a Windows only user your computer is useless. Oops. Did I say that out loud?
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -4/+14To be honest, I prefer Rhythmbox over Amarok, its nice and stable. Maybe its just me, but on every system I have tried using Amarok with, its buggy as heck and crashes/freezes a lot.
idk just sayin', Amarok ain't for me. - codyman, on 12/24/2007, -4/+13maybe its just the minimalistic / quickness streak in me, but I prefer foobar2000 over amarok...
- NtrmDscrptr, on 12/24/2007, -0/+9Dugg for Autechre, Plaid, and every other artist in that screenshot.
- GentleFood3, on 12/24/2007, -2/+10Thank you for the well thought out contribution.
- MWeather, on 12/24/2007, -1/+8Have you tried putting it in a mysql database?
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MySQL_HowTo
I do that by default. - MattBD, on 12/24/2007, -0/+6Agreed. Amarok is hands down the best media player I have ever used. It really is a great application - honestly, iTunes or Windows Media Player can't hold a candle to it.
I seriously believe that once available for Windows and Mac, Amarok will be a hugely popular application, probably as popular as Firefox. - colinodell, on 12/24/2007, -0/+6::waits for somebody to post the duggmirror link::
- Dissonance, on 12/24/2007, -0/+6British Electronica is simply superior music.
- renrutal, on 12/24/2007, -0/+6http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Why_Amarok_Roks/
- TrevorBelmont, on 12/24/2007, -2/+8I also would like to kiss the ass of this service or product.
- wiihuck, on 12/24/2007, -0/+5I'm in the same boat.
- mfearby, on 12/24/2007, -0/+5I was beginning to think I was the only person who felt this way about Amarok. Having to search for things then drag them to the right-hand pane before they'll play is god-awful! I have settled on Audacious since it's basically a nice, little, Winamp replacement in Linux. Until iTunes comes out for Linux or something very much similar to it (Songbird, perhaps?) then I'll stick with Audacious file/opening everything I want to play.
Amarok must have been designed by people who sell wrist supports to RSI-afflicted computer nerds because the clicking it requires is horrendous! - TheKrillr, on 12/24/2007, -1/+6yes. and on any other freakin platform.
- Z_Man, on 12/24/2007, -2/+7My only gripe with Amarok is that it's a KDE app. So it doest really look good with Gnome out of the box. Off topic, but I'm not too big of a fan of KDE anymore, although KDE4 does look extremely nice. And I can't wait to see Amarok 2!
- matx, on 12/24/2007, -1/+6What do you mean by large. I have a 80GB music collection and it runs perfectly fine for me, but chances are, its the database thats slowing things down.
- yutt, on 12/24/2007, -1/+6http://www.duggmirror.com
- zwaldowski, on 12/24/2007, -1/+6No offense, but are you guys using GNOME? I've had terrible problems with Amarok in GNOME as well, which is why I used Rhythmbox.
- HonoredMule, on 12/24/2007, -2/+7Agreed. I especially hate how AmaroK makes every change take 3 or more steps:
1) clear my current queue,
2) find what I now want to play, and double-click it to get a new queue (a tedious process of searching through directory trees in a rigid hirearchy),
3) double-click a file in the queue to actually start playing the new queue.
4) repeat setps 2 and 3 for each portion of your new queue that is broken up separately by the rigid hirearchy
5) get tired of all this and just satisfy yourself with overly-broad single-criterion searches and then deleting the unwanted false positives from the resulting queue.
On an iTunes-like GUI, we can actually leverage that database-like information storage for a less stone-age retrieval process:
1) select the media I want (either 1 click on a dynamic playlist or media source, or, with the library selected, select the genre(s)/artist(s)/album(s) desired (usually fewer than 3 clicks, no double-clicks, never have to look through a huge listing because of the chain-filtering of the filter fields themselves, and build the listing by specifying the same criterion we were thinking in our heads, rather than having to compile or translate the directions into something the program understands),
2) press play.
I can't wait for songbird to reach a level of maturity and stability similar to AmaroK. THAT will rock, becuase it IS the sensible way to navigate media collections, but every media manager that presents itself that way has something horribly wrong with it.
iTunes = 800lb gorilla with that shiny-puke-on-brushed-metal skin, 400lbs of which are dedicated to advertising/selling DRM'd media and proprietary interfaces. It's vendor lock-in on a stick, and heavy/slow as death besides.
MusiCube = ugly, slow, and only barebones functionality with poor configuration.
RhythmBox (haven't tried this one actually...but I can't say I've high hopes. I seem to recall looking at screenshots and deciding it wasn't even worth trying.)
Songbird = young, unstable, crashes whenever my iPod Shuffle is plugged in, and default skin is very hard to see...but the most promising. The interface is the BEST I've ever tried (iTunes-like, but you can pick what fields you want each of the 3 panes to filter by), all the functionality a media player needs most is there (like global hotkeys, importing ALL info from existing iTunes libraries, and a built-in browser for whatever network tie-in YOU want). - mfearby, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4Try Audacious. Can use the same skins as XMMS and has a decent file/open dialogue box that's not that ancient GTK common dialogue crap.
- sonicjosh, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5Mozilla Songbird is pretty good.
- zwaldowski, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4"Forced"? Just kidding.
- inactive, on 12/25/2007, -0/+4 it's the best of the best.
- Schneckehaus, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5Foobar 2k is actually quite good.
It's also very customizable... very. - renrutal, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4Users with more than 5K songs _should_ use external DBMSs like MySQL and PostgreSQL as backends. The internal SQLite engine Amarok uses can't handle such a high volume of music metadata.
On a plus note, using external DBs also opens a lot more features to you, like the ObsidianMusic web frontend, and other services. It's the way to go for a truly advanced media server for your house. - armo, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4You can make KDE apps fit in better with GNOME, it's just a matter of giving them both similar themes. Bit of a pain in the backside but easily doable.
- zwaldowski, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5Amarok on X11.
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/On_OS_X - zwaldowski, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4Scripts and themes do a lot of it.
- GMorgan, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3FOSS people make software they use. Who gives a crap about Windows users?
- shakin, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3When you first start Amarok it asks you if you want to use SQLite or MySQL. MySQL takes a bit more work to setup because you also have to install MySQL, but it's not hard to do.
- Moopy, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Amarok is great. Only complaint is I'm too lazy to install mysql, the random album feature needs a complementary skip album shortcut, no proper replaygain support, 5.1 support for my soundcard would be appreciated, and I have trouble skipping around on flac tracks but not mp3.
- kazamx, on 12/24/2007, -0/+32.o won't be shipping with KDE 4.0. Amarok is on a different release schedule.
- mointrigue, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Amarok plays mp3s and tons of other formats just great for me. Perhaps you haven't actually installed mp3 support on your machine.
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3I need an osx intel media player (***** itunes)...suggestions?
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