I had never heard of Yarock so decided to throw it into some packaging and take a look. It is rather snappy on my artful install and I kinda like it. Seems to use VLC as the back-end, but grabs info on songs like Amarok. Do you know the developer?
For anyone who wants a noisy, it's in my PPA - https://launchpad.net/~clivejo/+archive/ubuntu/yarock On 16 September 2017 at 05:43, Michael Devendra Lutynski < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Kubuntu Devs, > > To add to this discussion... when I install Kubuntu on friends' and > clients' machines, who are just average people wanting a stress-free > computing experience, I remove Amarok and put in something that feels more > intuitive to them. > > Lately, I've been putting on Musique <http://flavio.tordini.org/musique> > (sadly it's Qt4), but more promisingly Yarock > <http://seb-apps.github.io/yarock/>, a Qt5 app that bills itself as a > "Modern and elegant linux music player", and everyone seems to "get it". > It's quite feature-full and looks good too. > > My one regret is that it's not in Debian/Ubuntu's repos nor do I know who > to poke to get it added, as I think it'd be a great fit for Kubuntu until > the new KDE-specific music player comes of age. I add it via PPA's. > > ~Michael > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Mitch Golden <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ah, right. Bummer. >> >> On 09/15/2017 12:24 PM, Aaron Honeycutt wrote: >> >>> Clementine is also Qt4. >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Mitch Golden <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 09/15/2017 12:38 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >>>> >>>> Right now, Cantata seemed like the best choice, although I agree >>>> with you that it is less than desirable. There is a new player now >>>> called "Babe" (hopefully soon to be renamed) which has not yet has >>>> its first release. When it is, we will re-assess. We didn't want >>>> to release 17.10 with no music player, and we couldn't justify >>>> Amarok. For 18.04 we hope there will be better options. >>>> Has there been any discussion of replacing Amarok with Clementine, >>>> which has most of the features and seems to be in better shape as a >>>> project. It's not very active, but it's not dead, seemingly. - Mitch Golden >>>> -- >>>> kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] <mailto: >>>> [email protected]> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> kubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm >> an/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >> > > > > -- > ~Michael > > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > >
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