Oh my goodness! When I saw the feture set on this I nearly wept for
joy.
It's spelled Amarok by the way, not Amaroc, in case you want to google
it. First, it's in beta only on mac, and not officially supported,
and not a universal binary Though there are releases for both intel
and ppc. It's also a 70 mb download which is worrysome. They could
really stand to streamline this package a bit imho. I like my media
players stripped down, but let's see what this monster is all about
anyway.
Ic! No, what a crushing disappointment at first glance. It took
about 5 minutes installing a bunch of garbo, then it logged me out and
back in and crashed my mbp. Then I started it and it took about 30
seconds to come up. When it did come up it wanted to generate
something called a collection, which looks suspeciously like a dang
library. I cansilled out of that and it seems like it should let me
play files with out bloody collecting them, but the dialog that is
supposed to do that is full of buttons that don't press, and lists
that don't appear to have any way to select an option once you find
the one you want. The menues look pretty basic. No real surprizes,
but when I went to the preferences dialog, the whole program crashed.
I restarted and it came up much quicker, but every time I press a help
button, I get a dialog saying the program couldn't connect to the KDE
help center. The media player itself is only about 500 kb, but
there's nothing in the downloaded disc image or in the program's
folder that says what the other 10 or so applications that bundle with
it are, and there is no uninstaller. I've taken the liberty of
uninstalling the old fationed way. Maybe if they got rid of the
bundle software, cleaned up the bugs, and documented it in such a way
that one could read it there would be something here. Otherwise, I'm
afraid it was a bust for now. May you have better success if you try
it. Also, bare in mind, I only played with it for half an hour, and
was just a bit predjudiced to begin with.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 15-Jan-09, at 1:17 PM, David Hole wrote:
Well...
iTunes does ok as long as you don't have a library with 43x4 CD set
of J.S. Bach music + thousands of other things.
And then to a new question...
Have anyone here tried Amaroc, on the mac or what the player is
called?
The great with this one, is that it takes all kind of media, mp3,
aac, ogg, flac and so on.
There is one mor player wich I don't remember that also take this
formats.
This players has a better way to deal with the library, namely a
built in SQL-database wich makes it faster when you have too much
music :)
David Poehlman skrev:
on the other hand, thousands of us are using it with few problems.
We are using external drives, mounted and not mounted, all kinds of
ipods and multiple libraries. Go figure. I can't believe how easy
and accessible it is other than a couple of rough spots.
On Jan 15, 2009, at 2:18 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hum, I just can't hear the word ITunes without breaking out in a
sweat and frothing at the mouth. Of course, my sighted family
insists that if I could see I'd like it a lot better, but then I
lmao'ed at them for over half an hour while two of my sighted
siblings struggled in vain to locate an audiobook that my brother
imported into ITunes so he could get it to the nanno he got for
christmas. And that's not even getting into what happens when
Itunes loads with network or external drives not mounted, and what
it does if you plug in more than one IPod without custom libraries,
or...
It's the most horrible piece of software I've ever used in my life
and the hell of it is, it's 100% accessible, lol.
Best,
erik burggraaf
Certified Technician
Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
Sales department: 888-828-2445
Support and Training: 888-255-5194
Email: [email protected]
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On 15-Jan-09, at 9:31 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
I love it that ITunes puts everything I open in the library. The
neatest thing about it is that you cn have it not copy the files
to the itunes music folder so if you want, you can just delete the
entry. I see no advantage of using any other player. I doubt
anything but ITunes will read the ITunes library.
On Jan 15, 2009, at 5:41 PM, David Hole wrote:
Thanks so much.
That helped a lot...
It's irritating that iTunes adds everything one open into the
library. So now it will be better.
But another VLC-related question...Can one get VLC to read the
iTunes-library in the newest "stable" version of VLC?
Scott Chesworth skrev:
Hi David,
You can do this from within get info. Hit command-I on an mp3
file.
Interact with the scroll area if you're using Leopard (as far as I
recall this step wasn't necessary in tiger). Use VO navigation,
the
item chooser, or whatever method you prefer to find the open with
section. If you've never modified your settings, this will
probably
be set to iTunes. Whatever the selection is currently, it'll be
a pop
up menu, so hit space on that and use your arrows to scroll up or
down
to VLC. VO right a few times from there until you get to change
all,
the OS will bring up a dialog confirming you really want to do
that,
and once you confirm it you should be in business.
Hth, let us know if you run in to any issues.
Scott
On 1/15/09, David Hole <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello guys
Can someone help me a bit here...
I'd like to set VLC as the default player for mp3-files.
I tried to use the context menu and click on the "always open
with this
application" or what it is in english. That don't work :(
Is ther other ways to get it work?
Regards david
