[Mageia-discuss] Music player

Fri Jun 15 15:40:28 CEST 2012

Le 2012-06-14 10:12, Doug Laidlaw a écrit :
+> On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:52:17 +0200
+> Dimitrios Glentadakis<dglent at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>
+>> Le 14 juin 2012 14:50, "Gary Montalbine"<gmontalbine at cox.net>  a
+>> écrit :
+>>>
+>>> I was using Amarok as a player for my music files. After an upgrade
+>>> to
+>> Mageia2 it would stop at each song in the folder. Had to continually
+>> restart each song. Found Guayadeque in the repositories. Works great.
+>> Thanks developers.
+>>> Gary
+>>
+>> Hi Gary, from all players i have used i prefer clementine, you can
+>> try it.
+>>
+> I suggested clementine in reply to a request, and was told that it is
+> forked from an older version of Amarok.  Perhaps that is why it is so
+> good??
+>
+> Doug.
+>
+
+Yup[1] -- a fork of Amarok 1.4. It was forked when Amarok was completely 
+rebuilt in anticipation of the newer KDE 4.x.x. People were not 
+satisfied with the direction the new Amarok was going to, were 
+frustrated with the temporary-loss of functionality as Amarok was being 
+re-built, and, they wanted all of the functionality of Amarok 1.4. It 
+works pretty well like Amarok but I find that the newer Amarok is nicer 
+and quite simply works best of the two. As for the complaints, they have 
+pretty well have all been addressed with the new Amarok.
+
+Still, Amarok or Clementine are two good choice.
+
+Another good choice is VLC which plays ALL types of files. It also has a 
+playlist window. It is not as "beautified" as Amarok but works without 
+any problems.
+
+BTW ... my Amarok plays flawlessly, does not stop between tracks and I 
+have over 1400 tracks. It also does lyrics that some of my family 
+members use Amarok "Karaoke style", the Wiki pane is nice as also the 
+scrolling image pane.
+
+BTW ... I am not involved in any part of Amarok. These are my opinions 
+based on the playability of Amarok. I also manage between 30-40 (as a 
+volunteer) Mandriva/Mageia boxes for other people/groups and have not 
+heard of any complaints of Amarok thus far for any of my Mageia setups. 
+My Mandriva setups are being migrated to Mageia2 as I service these in 
+my shop.
+
+Cheers,
+
+Marc
+
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_%28software%29#Forks_and_variations
+
+