- Excellent portable media device support.
- Automated media tagging with musicbrainz second to none.
- Perfect podcast management.
All this and more makes Amarok the only true iTunes killer app out there.
All this and more makes Amarok the perfect argument to make users switch to KDE.
Unfortunately all of this can only be enjoyed if you are lucky to use a Linux distribution that has the mercy to still provide Amarok version 1.4.10 for KDE 3.5.10.
Since the complete rewrite of Amarok 2 for KDE 4, all of the great features given above must be marked off as either unusable incomplete or simply discontinued and gone for bad.
And I have not even mentioned the new bugs, going as far as data corruption.
In consequence, as much as Amarok 1.4.10 was the killer app for KDE 3, Amarok 2 is the last remaining argument against switching to KDE 4.
To all you KDE users in need of a working media manager: Do not bother trying Amarok 2 at all! Stick with Amarok 1.4.10 as long as you can! It 's just the best.
If all else fails, just try Banshee!
Desperate call for help to any willing developer: Please fork Amarok 1.4.10 as a feature complete migration to KDE 4!
After my expiriences with the current Amarok 2.1.1 in KDE 4 I need to support the above feedback. Amarok 1.4.10 was and still is the best Amarok version !!!
AntwortenLöschenAmarok is really at a crossroads. For one, with the beta for 2.2, for the first time since 2.0, developers seem starting to listen to users again. On the other hand, time is up. With distribution after distribution discontinuing support of KDE 3, fewer and fewer users can actually experience a first class Amarok and more and more may just drop it for better alternatives.
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