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| amaroK 1.2 First Player to Integrate Audioscrobbler |
 Posted by Mark Kretschmann on Thursday 17/Feb/2005, @09:22
from the bite-my-shiny-metal-scrobbler dept.
With its new 1.2 release, KDE-based media player amaroK becomes the first player to offer integrated support for Audioscrobbler. In close cooperation with the Audioscrobbler team amaroK developers have deployed exciting new ways to use the popular Internet service. Read on to learn about Audioscrobbler and new features in amaroK 1.2.
Audioscrobbler allows users to share music tastes with friends on the Internet, making use of automatically submitted song statistics. amaroK goes a step further than other media players and allows users to receive music recommendations from the site.
In contrast to competing players amaroK does not require a plugin to use this functionality. With the recently released amaroK 1.2 Audioscrobbler support comes built-in and easy to set up. Sunday's release of amaroK has already created buzz in the KDE community.
Also new in amaroK 1.2:
- Support for MySQL databases. Now you can keep your Collection on a remote
computer.
- The playlist has seen vast speed improvements.
- 10-band graphic Equalizer.
- Many usability improvements. We have made amaroK more accessible to new users and more comfortable for power-users.
- Automatic song lyrics display. Shows the lyrics to the song you're currently playing.
- Support for your iPod with the all new media-browser.
- On screen display has been revamped, now with optional translucency.
- Theme your ContextBrowser with custom CSS support.
- Support for the latest LibVisual library for stunning visualizations.
- Great new amaroK icon "Blue Wolf", made by KDE artist Da-Flow.
- Better compatibility with GNOME and other non-KDE environments.
- Powerful scripting interface, allowing for easy extension of amaroK.
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Great Application!
by Anonymous on Thursday 17/Feb/2005, @10:02
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Amarok is a great application. Thanks!
(I signed up for Audioscrobbler and still submit my music, but since the personal radio feature never really worked for me, there is not much use in Audioscrobbler for me personally.)
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Sharing
by JohnFlux on Thursday 17/Feb/2005, @10:04
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Just to note, this doesn't appear to in anyway let you share songs.
I thought it did at first, misreading some of the sentences in the summary :)
This looks really good. Not sure why to be so proud that it's not a plugin, but each to their own.
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Bah
by mikeyd on Thursday 17/Feb/2005, @10:30
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Knew I should have asked Charles to include my audioscrobbler plugin with noatun 2.6 :). In all seriousness though, I think audioscrobbler is a prime example of something which should be a plugin, because for many users it will seem like pointless bloat. Anyone know why AmaroK decided to go with it in the player? Could it be because despite their "Powerful scripting interface" they don't have a proper plugin system?
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beta testing
by me on Thursday 17/Feb/2005, @13:53
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I like amarok. A lot. I always use it if I can, and its interface is great! The only problem is its stability, it has always crashed or hung far too often. I wonder whether other people have made the same experiences?
Oh, and in the collection view, I'd like to be able to select TagFilter->FirstLevel->Filename.
Other than that, its the best music player I've ever used. And the people in #amarok are nice and helpful, too!
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Calling home
by ano on Thursday 17/Feb/2005, @13:54
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That's what I was missing from MS Windows, apps which connect in the background to the internet (without user interaction).
I disabled audioscrobbler, but ethereal shows that amarok still connects to audioscrobbler.
Amarok has nice features but has usability problems:
For no reason it uses a different menu structure, a different toolbar position,
controls in the status bar.
Many actions are only possible when you open the right panel.
Why is "repeat track" in the Settings menu?
With juk or kaffeine I needed 5 sec to find out how I can add a folder, with amarok I needed 15 min.
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KDE Usability
by Ian Ventura-Whiting on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @02:18
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I know that this is a contentious issue, but as we move towards KDE 4 the applications issued as part of KDE need to scrutinised.
Amarok is an excellent media player and should become the standard player, with other KDE music players removed.
Kaffeine has demonstrated time and again that it is better than the other movie players and should be the only player provided as part of the standard KDE packages.
How many image viewers, text editors and other applications that do the same task are really needed?
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MySQL??
by Amarokker :) on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @07:14
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> Support for MySQL databases. Now you can keep your Collection on a remote computer
What do you mean? Can I have my mp3/ogg files on another computer? Do they get streamed to my work-computer then, or what?
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amarok vs juk
by spudder on Saturday 19/Feb/2005, @12:06
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I've got a rather large music collection and have tried most of the KDE audio players. I've found amarok to be the best by quite a margin.
I don't understand how anyone can use Juk when they have a large music archive. Juk is insanely slow when trying to just use the UI.. everytime I try to select a different task the locks up for about 10 seconds while it looks through the music database (or appears to).
amarok seems to have solved this problem quite well... song lookups are extremely quick and accurate.. I really think this should be included in the standard KDE install rather then Juk.
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