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I like Rhythmbox better :roll:
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UlisseMint I agree with you. :D I would prefer that Exaile be installed rather than AmaroK in a Gnome Desktop...
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eriktheunreadying wrote:is there a music player othere than xmms, that has a "pause" key?
look at ryttmbox, exhaile etc. there seems to be a puase button issue? no?
Yes JuK for example... :wink:
But it is a KDE app. :?
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eriktheunready wrote:they are both awsome applications, one ~dumb~ question, is there a music player othere than xmms, that has a "pause" key?
looking at ryttmbox, exhaile etc. there seems to be a puase button issue? no?

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In Exaile the pause button is the play button while playing music.
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Re: Why Amarok?

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UlisseMint wrote:Why by default there is amarok as audio player? I use gnome, so i think that it's better to use a gnome application. I suggest to think about exaile :D
amarok is good player and many features.Yes you are right exaile is gr8 too.May be amarok is more popular so it is in mint.
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Post by civint »

I'd stick with amarok, simply because, IMO, it's the best FOSS music player about, stable, easy to use, easy to organise files, easy to add plugins. AND it's a kde app (I'm feeling the tug of the Qt toolkit these days..gtk is just a bit too...over simple for me...)
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Amarok 2, the end of freedom. The end of a spirit.

Amarok 2 GUI... my God! :twisted:

And it seems to be designed for the wide screens, as its three major vertical areas are favoring wide screens indeed. And sad It seems as it push us into the commercial. (Magnatude, CoolStreams...)

Taken from the web because the guy speaks better than I :wink: :

"the freedom seeker might ask whether the "binding" to Magnatune is still freedom — or rather favoritism.

As for the Ruby script for CoolStreams... I don't know why is CoolStreams considered to be "something good" (such an horrendous web site makes me sick), but I know that anything that redirects me to Live365.com is pure bullshit! And most of the contents is for paid membership only.

Oh, and having Ruby as an addition to the bloat... oh my. The younger princess (Ruby) is more attractive than the old gals (Python, Perl), eh?

Now I know why I am not using Amarok: not only because I don't need "ultrasmart collection organizers", or because Kaffeine suits almost all my needs (the same does Gxine): it's because I hate being pushed into the commercial."

Me too, even in my KDE distro in dual boot with Mint I don't use Amarok, I use Juk for music.:lol:
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I always hated being assailed by "commercial" :twisted:

This is a practice of "commercial" that we would not probably find in FOSS
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Re: Why Amarok?

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I just saw another reason for not using Amarok:

" I just noticed that Amarok requires Ruby, which is completely ridiculous!

Even when developing a Microsoft Windows application, you can dynamically load a DLL if it exists and get pointers to the functions you need, this way making that library optional (as opposed to linking with an import lib that makes that DLL mandatory for the application to start). Now, how the **** are those open highly praised source developers only able to develop BLOAT, i.e. applications that will soon require you to install the whole Universe just because this is the way they wanted to develop, na!

Highly unprofessional. I never liked Amarok, but now I have one more reason not to use it. It's bloated anyway. I suppose I can compile it without support for Ruby, but it is ridiculous to hardcode it in build configuration options, when you could have used a flexible loading mechanism."

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Re: Why Amarok?

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Banshee? So you love Microsoft? :lol:
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