[clue-tech] Favorite Streaming Media Player?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 18 January 2009 07:48:42 pm Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 17:22 -0700, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> > > Have you checked out rhythmbox ?
> >
> > Uh, looks kinda Gnomish. :)
>
> It is.  It's the GNOME Amarok, I guess.
>
> > Right now, I'm trying out Amarok. Kinda clunky, IMHO, but I suppose I can
> > get used to it.
>
> Amarok wasn't bad in it's previous release (pre 2.x).  I was able to do
> some tagging in it and managed to use it to upload my archives onto the
> iPod Nano my daughter got me for xmas.  But I hadn't created any
> playlists yet and that's what's missing on my iPod - decent playlists.

The few playlists I have in there so far are some music CDs that I was 
playing,  after kscd somehow declined to read the data on these from the 'net 
like it used to do.  Amarok didn't seem to have a problem with that at all.

> The Amarok developers apparently did a complete rewrite (or something
> like that) and managed to make it completely unusable now.  I've tried
> for hours to figure out 2.x and simply can't figure out how to do simple
> things like start playing an album, never mind creating a playlist and
> uploading that to my ipod.  This was easy in 1.x.  It's just not doing
> what you (okay, I) expect it to do in 2.x.

Hm.  Looks like the version I have here is 1.4.something.



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