[olug] Amarok 2 is finally out.

[Adam Lassek]

Greater control of the interface would be good, but I am becoming
increasingly of the opinion that aesthetically pleasing defaults go the
longest way to attracting new users. It's good to see Amarok being ported to
Windows, and Banshee supporting OSX; another important way of attracting
users is the ability for them to try it out in their comfort zone.

I have a Windows VM for development, but I don't have it set up for iTunes
currently because the free version of VirtualBox didn't support USB. I think
the latest Sun release changed that, but I'm loathe to make major changes
until my project is done; I'll look into doing that later, probabably the
same time I upgrade my OS to 64-bit.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade my Touch for anything. In fact, there
really isn't anything else that is even comparable (iPhone doesn't count).
Dealing with the annoyance of its anticompetitive design is better than not
having it. But I'm torn; Apple makes some of the best hardware money can
buy, I just wish they were a little less evil.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:03 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2.0 is .0 release, which should be noted, and 1.4 is still getting bug
> fixes.  2.0 is certainly not for everyone right now.
>
> I like the new playlist system.  I've been told that eventually you'll
> have full control over the interface and layout of Amarok, but they're
> not there yet.  The middle space isn't used as well as I'd like, but
> the framework exists to put useful apps there.
>
> As far as Vista, I can't imagine why anyone would want to boot into
> it.  I keep an XP x64 partition, but if you only need it for one small
> use (iTunes) then a VM might be better, and it would save you the time
> it takes to boot back and forth.
>
> Frankly I avoid Apple products because of their proprietary, locked
> nature.  I understand many aspects of their popularity, but for
> precisely the same reasons I don't like Microsoft, I don't like Apple.
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net>
> wrote:
> > I've been a longtime user of 1.4, but this new version just looks awful
> to
> > me. They've crammed the ui into much tighter spaces to make room for this
> > new plasma window, which I have yet to see be put to any good use. 1.4
> > suffered from a lot of ui clutter, but this doesn't strike me as an
> > improvement; simply a different kind of bad.
> >
> > I currently favor Banshee, which has a significantly cleaner design and
> has
> > 99% of the feature set I require. Its ipod support isn't quite as good,
> > which could have been a dealbreaker; however I happen to have upgraded to
> a
> > Touch, which as it turns out is unable to be synced in Linux at all. The
> > iPod Touch is a wonderful device, but being forced to boot into Vista to
> > sync new music to it has substantially dampened by enthusiasm.
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, <stabbymctwist.x at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I know it was out a few days ago, but who's celebrating?
> >>
> >> I certainly am.
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