Recently, something apparently changed on my system during an update
such that Amarok 1 from KDE Sunset will no longer build with the mp4 USE
flag turned on. Since that effectively means that it would no longer be
able to play M4A files ripped from YouTube streams, that would
effectively end my interest in Amarok, so I tried upgrading to the new
QT4 version just to see if it's as awful as everybody says.
It is as awful as everybody says.
It will play MP4, but the layout is absurd. It has a tab for Internet
streams that doesn't let you add any streams the author didn't include
with it. It wants you to put your streams into playlists, but doesn't
let you give them titles. It feels slow and unresponsive, and from my
brief usage of the program, it doesn't seem to support global
(desktop-wide) hotkeys -- you have to focus its window to make it do
things like advance to the next track. It also no longer lets you do
things like delete actual files while deleting playlist items like
Amarok 1 used to (useful for those songs you've just had it with).
When playing user-added Internet streams from your playlist (the only
place they can be, thanks to the above), if anything goes wrong
connecting to them, they get removed, which is fun if they playlist you
currently have running was the only place they were saved.
So...I'd really like my Amarok 1.4 back...
Has anyone else had problems building it with MP4 support lately?
Addendum: (Also, in an unrelated note, has anyone noticed that the EAPI
warnings from the overlay have gotten really heinous lately during world
updates?)
--
+ Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
+ Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
such that Amarok 1 from KDE Sunset will no longer build with the mp4 USE
flag turned on. Since that effectively means that it would no longer be
able to play M4A files ripped from YouTube streams, that would
effectively end my interest in Amarok, so I tried upgrading to the new
QT4 version just to see if it's as awful as everybody says.
It is as awful as everybody says.
It will play MP4, but the layout is absurd. It has a tab for Internet
streams that doesn't let you add any streams the author didn't include
with it. It wants you to put your streams into playlists, but doesn't
let you give them titles. It feels slow and unresponsive, and from my
brief usage of the program, it doesn't seem to support global
(desktop-wide) hotkeys -- you have to focus its window to make it do
things like advance to the next track. It also no longer lets you do
things like delete actual files while deleting playlist items like
Amarok 1 used to (useful for those songs you've just had it with).
When playing user-added Internet streams from your playlist (the only
place they can be, thanks to the above), if anything goes wrong
connecting to them, they get removed, which is fun if they playlist you
currently have running was the only place they were saved.
So...I'd really like my Amarok 1.4 back...
Has anyone else had problems building it with MP4 support lately?
Addendum: (Also, in an unrelated note, has anyone noticed that the EAPI
warnings from the overlay have gotten really heinous lately during world
updates?)
--
+ Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
+ Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky