why does amarok take away good things one by one?

[kapil]

i started using kubuntu since karmic. then, amarok was really nice player.
it used to scan the folders precisely and list it properly in the left pane. i.e. the music library.
then in (i think it was 2.2), the scanning was filthy. it started missing the listing of many of albums in hdd.
but in that version, while playing with amarok i learned cool feature to fetch the album art from net.
i could even specify whether i want to fetch it from google, yahoo etc. the results used to be displayed and i had freedom to choose whichever i want.
but alas, that cool feature is no more in 2.3. it just displays single album art. i dont have liberty to choose the search engine..
for me amarok now is just another really nice player..

[GreyGeek]

Re: why does amarok take away good things one by one?

In proprietary software users vote by not buying or renewing.

In FOSS software users vote by not installing or updating.

Both vote with the postings, but they can be astroturfed, so the first two ballot boxes apply.

[sithlord48]

Re: why does amarok take away good things one by one?

im not sure about 2.3.0 but amarok 2.3.1 has that and its been improved. it is now faster and shows the possible covers as thumbnails. still found under album -> fetch cover

[Snowhog]

Re: why does amarok take away good things one by one?

I've all but given up on using Amarok. Won't play audio CDs, and that's what I have and would want to use it for. Is version 2.3.1 included in the KDE 4.5.1 release of package updates/upgrades?

[kapil]

Re: why does amarok take away good things one by one?

im not sure about 2.3.0 but amarok 2.3.1 has that and its been improved. it is now faster and shows the possible covers as thumbnails. still found under album -> fetch cover

thats nice will update the version then..thanks for telling.

[ScottyK]

Re: why does amarok take away good things one by one?

Has anybody not been able to open amarok since updating KDE to 4.5.1? Everytime I try to open it just crashes.

[Snowhog]

Re: why does amarok take away good things one by one?

Yesterday, I installed another LL 10.04 onto my internal HD (two new partitions - root and /home) for testing of the KDE 4.4.5 to 4.5.1 upgrade. That went well, and is in another thread.

Your question piqued my curiosity about Amarok again. I'd essentially written it off since the upgrade from 1.4 to the version 2 series.

I'm in my testing LL 10.04 now. Fired up Amarok. Inserted a music CD. Clicked on Local Music and the CD was show, with all the tracks listed. I copied the CD to the Playlist and Amarok began playing the first track. Wow. I'm impressed.

However, it does not start playing subsequent tracks automatically. In fact, when the first track was finished, the third track (in the playlist) got highlighted, not the second track. Found no controls for random play, repeat, etc.

Clearing the Playlist and then ejecting the CD via the eject button on the CD in Amarok, and Quiting Amarok, and then repeating the process by launching Amarok and inserting a music CD DID NOT result in the CD being identified/displayed when clicking on Local Music.

Amarok, as far as I'm concerned, and as installed on my PC, is still not functional. How can the developers still not have something so basic as the identification, loading, and playing of music CDs not fully functional after so much time with the 2 series? Sad, very, very sad indeed.