Comments on: Lydia Pintscher: The Way to Amarok 2.2

By: Treris

Treris — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:16:24 +0000

Couldn’t agree more! Those widgets annoyed the living daylights out of me each and everytime I tried amarok. I just want my collection to be shown in a long list (which I can sort) and the ability to create playlists and enqueue files. Unfortunately that seems to be just about impossible in amarok 2 so far. That’s why I’ve switched to banshee and songbird and the likes, even though I would love to have a nice, well integrated, kde4 media player…

By: aldente

aldente — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:29:59 +0000

That last picture, that’s the Amarok I want! No space eating widget thingy, just the collection and the sortable playlist. Navigation on the bottom and finally no freaking overlapping buttons anymore. Yay, go 2.2!!!

By: AGS

AGS — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:28:34 +0000

Just one word: Crossfading

Until it is again implemented no party can be done with Amarok.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:19:54 +0000

What leo said.

Also, one important thing to note (if you try out current Git, and unless someone fixes it 2.2) is that the Collection Browser sometimes goes a bit loopy in terms of the tracks it’s showing, but that this is not reflective of the problems in the database (which should already be fixed).

The way you can tell is easy — if you close Amarok and reopen it and the problem goes away, it’s the Collection Browser being messy. If the problem doesn’t go away, then something may still be wrong with the collection stuff that I fixed.

You may want to look at the following:

http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1068-UTF-8-and-Your-Music.html
http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1067-MySQL-Server-Support-Promised-and-Delivered.html
http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1077-DB-changes-call-for-benchmarkers!.html

By: SoftVision

SoftVision — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:08:28 +0000

I haven’t managed to get Amarok working ever since I tried 2.0 Alpha. 2.1 didn’t work and I’m following a scanner bug which doesn’t seem to have been fixed yet. Really hope the scanner improves.

By: Sascha Manns

Sascha Manns — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:04:58 +0000

Yes. See: http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2009/07/20/were-testing-the-water-for-everyone/

By: zak89

zak89 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:20:36 +0000

Does anyone know where to find the nightly packages of Amarok?

By: patcito

patcito — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:52:57 +0000

I get this error when I start amarok trunk from kde 4.3 http://is.gd/1CS3U any idea how to fix this please?

By: leo

leo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:31:20 +0000

regarding the scanner “forgetting” some tracks, hopefully a bunch of those bugs should be gone in svn and 2.2+. Jeff found some weirdness with the track caching that was leading to wrong behaviour, and his recent fixes should have cleared things up.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:55:01 +0000

Personally, I’d REALLY love to see the collection scanner stop being a pain in the nether regions…in other words, I’m sick of it sometimes “forgetting” the tags of some songs, and if I’ve manually said that this or that album belongs to various artists it should stay there even when the collection is updated. Oh, and just getting one item of an album in “Various Artists”…I don’t want to see 8 of them if I’ve had to use “Show under various artists” 8 times…