I’ll move to Linux thanks Amarok

August 14, 2008 — Damien

Damien says, one of the biggest problems with Linux has always been a lack of strength in its media players. Amarok v2 is now in the pipe and its looking great.

The Amarok 1 client which most Linux users had to use (it was the best option) really lacked in its options for managing artists, albums, compilations as it relied on a database driven columns view. I never found that easy to use.

Amarok 2 looks to be offering more for those jumping to Ubuntu or other friendly Linux flavours. As Lifehacker puts it … There’s a lot less button clutter than with 1.x, the left-hand column has some of the familiar left-hand tabs—Collection, Playlists, Files—plus there’s a new “Internet” tab, where you find friendly things like last.fm and wikipedia support.

and you can see that Amarok 2 will now work on OS X and Windows!

Source: lifehacker.com and Amarok.kde.org

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Whats your media player?

August 3, 2008 — Damien

I’m starting a reader survey on Media Players – as there are a few assumptions I wanted to prove or understand.

1. If you have an iPod, iPhone or iTouch you use iTunes

2. You use Winamp casue you don’t want to use iTunes or WMP

3. you use windows media player as its the only thing you know or its the only one on your PC / Laptop

4. You use one of the new cross platform media centres or media servers as you’ve got a collection of music

5. You use linux and also stuck for choice so its Amarokfor you

Just add a comment to VOTE

I think there are many new media players out there that people haven’t heard of but would make a switch if they knew it was easy, had a better set of features or was marketed to them with some relevant feature.

For reference, I use Winamp and almost always have done so as I consider iTunes and WMP both to be ‘mainstream’. I use lots of different media players and am now looking at home media servers.

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