On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Damian <damian.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Paul and Alan for your advices. > > OT: > For me it's hard to drop amarok because I cannot find all of its > funtionality in one player. For now I'm using mpd+sonata. They're > great, but it's just not the same. I guess eventually I'll make my own > player :P
I'm a long-time user of KDE3-Amarok and the new Amarok is taking some time to get used to... I do not like at all the way it sorts your collection, it seems to be trying to be too smart. I don't have an assortment of random songs, I have albums, and it's very difficult to get them to display as such. I had no problems in the old Amarok. The fact that half the screen is reserved for docking of plug-ins or widgets or whatever is kind of annoying... It is not intuitive how to arrange them. For example, there is a lyrics plug-in but it only shows about 4 lines of text, which makes it annoying to the point of being useless (unless I want to scroll line-by-line during the entire song). Last.fm works much better in the new Amarok, however. It never quite worked right in the old one. Loving/banning/skipping songs is all very easy now. The big problem I have in Amarok 2 is that it has 2 big major problems: 1. It randomly stops playing and uses 100% until I kill it. This seems to happen not-so-randomly if I try to skip 2 songs in a row. It may be buffering or something. The old Amarok had a similar problem, actually, but it would just crash. 2. It randomly (usually after 5 songs or so) stops producing any sound, though it acts like it is still playing. One song will finish and the next will "start" but be silent. Quitting Amarok and re-starting causes the sound to work again, for a few songs, and then it goes silent. Overall I would say at this poin, other than the Last.fm support, I prefer the old Amarok in almost every way to the new one. UI was better, performance was better, display of collection was better. Maybe there are some new features that I'm not aware of that might make me love Amarok 2. Thanks, Paul
