Hi all, I was a happy user of Amarok 1.4.x, but since Amarok 2.x, I've been getting a lot of compatibility problems with it, which made it use painful. As a result, I've been mostly using the VLC player recently, which isn't perfect, but is less quirky.
What I need from Amarok is to have a Phonon backend that will: 1. Play all files I throw at it - .mp3, .ogg, .flv, .mp4, .mod/.s3m/.xm/.it, .avi, etc. Phonon-gstreamer is unable to play .mp4 files due to this bug - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267319 - and Phonon-VLC was much more quirky in this respect last time I tried. 2. Be able to play streamed or remote media like the one that is present in Last.fm, Magnatune or Jamendo (all of which have Amarok interfaces). Here Phonon-gstreamer is much worse (due to an unreleased bug fix), and phonon-vlc is better. As a result, it seems that phonon is a quirky abstraction (see http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/49510.html ) that completely ruins the Amarok experience for me. Can anyone look into releasing new stable versions of the phonon backends with all these problems fixed? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl Logic sucks. Morality sucks. Reality sucks. Deal with it! Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
