Hi, Long time user here. I concur, releasing 2.9 would be a good move and we might actually use it as an opportunity to get more people working on Amarok. My C++ is crap but I'm willing to help out with the simple things.
Here's something to spark a discussion on where Amarok should head to: I do believe that the scope of what Amarok does should be severely limited in order to make sure we have a GREAT music player instead of a music manager. My outstanding issues with Amarok are: - still depends on Qt 4 and KDE 4 libraries - plugin system still requires restarting Amarok - transcoding never worked for me - MTP was/is/will be broken - most of the plugins (ex. Magnatune Store) are broken - and the most important – working with huge collections is painfully slow. My collection has merely 8k FLAC tracks and just uncollapsing the collection list can take several seconds. Best regards, Michał On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Stefano Pettini <stefano.pett...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > it's many years now that Amarok 2.9 is about to be released. The > saturday-morning emails remember us weekly that there are still a couple of > regressions since years. In the meanwhile development almost stopped, but > not completely. I, like many, contributed with small but important patches > (otherwise we would haven't dedicated time to provide such fixes). > > I think it's fair if the work since 2.8 is not wasted and 2.9 is released. > > Current regressions are minor bugs, the only annoying thing not working > anymore is the cover search. But it's not a newly-introduced regression, > just the world changed and all the services used for cover search become > not available anymore. It's not a problem not present in 2.8 that people > would face when updating to 2.9. It's already broken now. > > I would disable what doesn't work to not give false impressions, removing > the broken services from cover search, and release 2.9. This would fix the > access to wikipedia and other bugs we dedicated time to. > > Cover search can be restored later, if developers find time to dedicate to > it and somebody reviews the available services and select the suitable ones > for the future Amarok. > > Regards, > Stefano >
