Are you going to give Amarok a try? Amarok 2. Amarok is the application that got me hooked on KDE. My favorite features are the last. Hint: unless you are married to some obscure Window-only application, then you are missing a lot!
My favorite feature is all the music organization options — all the different ways to view your collection and the playlist options and such. Anyways im glad to see them port it over sorta. I kinda have mixed feelings about it. But looks like Windows users will get some quality software. Well, only 2 things that I miss since transfer from Win to Lin are XMplay numero 1 lightweight player and Foobar numero 1 player for people that have large collections and Amarok does pretty good job for replacing the second one still no player like XMplay:.
Enihu, it perfectly integrates wiki and lyrics,has nice support for playlists and collections my whole music coll. Cover manager is worth mentioning ussualy finds every single cover if tags are ok …. What is it? A badly built clone of something that someone else designed? The Amarok Tech Preview is stone-aged, primitive and incredibly ugly when compared to the beta installed on my Linux box. Hopefully it will look a little prettier like in real KDE and support Last.
As for all great programs being ported from the original platform to a different system, there will be many teething issues and I think all the negative feedback and issues posted here are not unlike any other alpha, beta or release candidate testing process where the developerss are looking for feedback on symptoms and issues. When running under Mepis Linux, I have seen none of the issues identified above, though if we are to compare media players, here is my take. As a player, I find it deprecated due to its strictly proprietary nature, making it less than ideal for much more than a few media types.
Apart from those annoyances, I would classify the streaming radio stations available through iTunes to be one of the best around and the classic interface to be one of the most useful. Windows Media Player was previously a reasonable program, but since it has become riddled with DRM, version 11 has become what I would consider to be the worst and most crippled player I have seen in my many years of working with computers. I personally do not care for flashy looks, I go for function over form 20 to one, so therein lies my reasoning for winamp.
Realplayer, while useful for certain media types is aweful for its phoning home, so I would use only an alternative version with all the additional rubbish stripped out, other than that, I would have no use for it if I was a windows user. It was a nice-ish player, but for me, it never got off the ground due to the unnecessary bundled extras and largely useless real.
VLC is probably the best media player I have seen outright. It has a small footprint and a very simple GUI, but it is not short on features, easily outperforming most, if not all of the other players on the market, and it is truly cross platform. It does not phone home to nark on your usage statistics and it totally disrespects CSS as well as having a streaming server built in, plus it can rip anything you can play to a different format if you know what you are doing.
Having said that, I use amarok as my primary music player. I find amaroks visualisations if I were to use them not quite as extensive as those in WMP10, but in some instances, much nicer. I find Amarok able to play more useful audio media format types than WMP and iTunes combined, with the exception of certain protected media, but I would never purchase hobbled music from any provider, so that has never been a problem. As for size, the player is not Mb and it is not a clone of any sort.
To say such a thing exposes the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of the poster. Windows media player will not play without windows, a 2. Disclaimer: since most of our developers don't even have a Windows installation to test this build, we rely on you, dear Amarok lover, to help us testing and to report any bugs you might find.
Please report them to our bugtracker and don't forget to specify the version and the exact Windows platform.
If you have filed bugs for the previous versions on Windows, please check if you can reproduce them with the 2. Thanks to some attentive testers, we have now uploaded a patched version that comes with the corrected installation path. Skip to main content. Amarok Rediscover Your Music! And see where we want to take it. Amarok 2. February 3, - — Mamarok A new year, a new Amarok release Some important notes about this release:.
Read more about Amarok 2. List of important changes since 2. This release is marked by improvements, corrections and polishing of nearly all Amarok features.
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