I have tried Amarok2 many many times, and it never even makes it through importing my library without crashing. I also think it's ugly as sin on top of it, and not very intuitive.
In its place, I install
Clementine player on distros that don't have Amarok1 - Arch has Amarok1, so I use it in it, with postgresql to hold my music db - it just works. In Fedora, I use Clementine, and in other distros I've tried too. I've even contributed to bug-zapping for Clementine - it doesn't have every single feature that Amarok1 had, but it's good enough and has more than enough of those features to use.
There has never been something that just plain works, and is intuitive in functionality, as Amarok 1.4.xx, and unfortunately, never will be again. The distros that abandoned it have taken away their user's choice to see for themselves the comparison. Choice is always a good thing, I don't care how you spin it or not. It just is. The choice of mysql-only for the music db was also a bad move; we've seen what's happened with mysql over the last months. Had they given the choice to use it
or postgresql, or any number of other db methods, that would've been one thing, but they didn't.
With that having been said, I do not wish to go back to KDE3 at this time like I used to. I may like to play with it once in a rare while for nostalgia's sake, but I would not want to use it forever. Everything evolves. The problem with Amarok2, is that it evolved into something it shouldn't have, and they need to do a serious overhaul on it in more ways than one. I know many others who it's the same for me as - it does
not work, it does
not look good, and is
not functional, all three. That should say something for it, although, we do hope with each Amarok2 update that this will change. Still, it never has. I always, without fail, end up uninstalling it again because it can't even import my music db, much less do anything else for me.
Sound freaks enlighten me I need something smart to say the next time I get dragged into this discussion!
