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When working in Linux, I cannot do without AmaroK. It is my single most favourite piece of Linux software. I love how it fetches covers, and gets them right. (http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6861/snapshot26np.png) The same goes to say about lyrics. It's also fun how it keeps track of what my favourite songs are, making me realise I really have crappy taste in music...

But, still, when working in Windows I just find myself missing it and have been unable to find any worthy substitute, with WMP making me twitch, and Winamp just sucking in its latest versions. Someone out there have any suggestions?

When working in Linux, I cannot do without AmaroK. It is my single most favourite piece of Linux software. I love how it fetches covers, and gets them right. (http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6861/snapshot26np.png) The same goes to say about lyrics. It's also fun how it keeps track of what my favourite songs are, making me realise I really have crappy taste in music...

But, still, when working in Windows I just find myself missing it and have been unable to any worthy substitute, with WMP making me twitch, and Winamp just sucking in its latest versions. Someone out there have any suggestions?
Hmmm I use Xine ... I have never tried AmaroK honestly ... *Runs to install*

What distro do you use again fass?

Hmmm I use Xine ... I have never tried AmaroK honestly ... *Runs to install*

What distro do you use again fass?

Usually Gentoo and Ubuntu, but I'm trying PCLinuxOS at the moment, thinking of submitting a review to osnews.com or something like that. Pleasantly surprised so far, seeing as it actually comes with proprietary drivers (meaning my ATI card worked with 3D acceleration without tweaking) and recognised all my hardware, something no other distro has managed without me having to load the pertinent modules on my own (for some reason my gigabit ethernet card seems to be hated by Linux), except my wifi-card, but I've always had to run ndiswrapper to get it to work.

Usually Gentoo and Ubuntu, but I'm trying PCLinuxOS at the moment, thinking of submitting a review to osnews.com or something like that. Pleasantly surprised so far, seeing as it actually comes with proprietary drivers (meaning my ATI card worked with 3D acceleration without tweaking) and recognised all my hardware, something no other distro has managed without me having to load the pertinent modules on my own (for some reason my gigabit ethernet card seems to be hated by Linux), except my wifi-card, but I've always had to run ndiswrapper to get it to work.
Intresting ... will have to keep my eyes on it

So far I have had good luck with ubuntu no hardware issues on the two desktops I have tried it on (though had issues with my laptop ATI card ... I had to set it back to vessa to get it to works

But I am even sort of new to ubuntu ... FreeBSD man myself mostly lol just got tired how long it took to build up a desktop system

Intresting ... will have to keep my eyes on it

So far I have had good luck with ubuntu no hardware issues on the two desktops I have tried it on (though had issues with my laptop ATI card ... I had to set it back to vessa to get it to works

I'm hoping you're not stuck with Vesa. The ten minutes it gets me to get the fglrx drivers to work are hell whenever I try out distros...

But I am even sort of new to ubuntu ... FreeBSD man myself mostly lol just got tired how long it took to build up a desktop system

The sole, and huge, negative of Gentoo. In the beginning you don't mind the compile times, and you tell yourself that you only compile during the night anyway, but, dammit, after a while it wears you down, and when they release a new version of something huge like gnome or kde or Xorg, you start to ask yourself "What the hell am I doing?" and go over to a binary distro for a while. Thank Debian for apt! Deb or rpm, doesn't really matter.

I'm hoping you're not stuck with Vesa. The ten minutes it gets me to get the fglrx drivers to work are hell whenever I try out distros...



The sole, and huge, negative of Gentoo. In the beginning you don't mind the compile times, and you tell yourself that you only compile during the night anyway, but, dammit, after a while it wears you down, and when they release a new version of something huge like gnome or kde or Xorg, you start to ask yourself "What the hell am I doing?" and go over to a binary distro for a while. Thank Debian for apt! Deb or rpm, doesn't really matter.
Yeah it is the same in the FreeBSD world

I mean I know I am working with one of the most secure os's on the market and I get my hands dirty and get to make all teh small tweeks

But it is the same using the Ports system compiles from sorce everything ... it gets anoying specialy onborderline machines. On my dual opteron the compiling times are trimmed so far down its not a big issue but on my older machines...

Lets just say I compleatly feel your pain lol

But, still, when working in Windows I just find myself missing it and have been unable to find any worthy substitute, with WMP making me twitch, and Winamp just sucking in its latest versions. Someone out there have any suggestions?
No :(

I use WinAmp but would gladly use something else if it wasn't for the fact that everything else sucks even worse.

I could never handle having to program my own OS via Linux. #_# All the complications...

I could never handle having to program my own OS via Linux. #_# All the complications...
Depends on the distro

Personaly I found ubuntu to be easier to get going then windows

But I had already got my hands dirty with some of the harder distro's

Errr...

If you're looking for a quality media player, I recommend Media Player Classic, which you can get on SourceForge.

But somehow, I suspect you're seeking far more than that, and I just can't understand what it is you are searching for because I lack the necessary knowledge to comprehend it.

When working in Linux, I cannot do without AmaroK. It is my single most favourite piece of Linux software. I love how it fetches covers, and gets them right. (http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6861/snapshot26np.png) The same goes to say about lyrics. It's also fun how it keeps track of what my favourite songs are, making me realise I really have crappy taste in music...

But, still, when working in Windows I just find myself missing it and have been unable to find any worthy substitute, with WMP making me twitch, and Winamp just sucking in its latest versions. Someone out there have any suggestions?
I hate how AmaroK handles playlists. I would like to be ableto tell it to just pick a random song from my entire collection. Closest I've been able to do is make a playlist of all my songs then set it to "Shuffle at Startup" or something like that. i love the informative sidebar, and the auto-CD cover. I don't quite understand how it rates how much you like the song.

Nice album cover, btw. Very, um, wholesome.

I use iTunes when working with Windows. Podcasts are easy to subsribe to. Besides, being an iPod user I am stuck with it, but not like that is a bad thing.

I hate how AmaroK handles playlists. I would like to be ableto tell it to just pick a random song from my entire collection. Closest I've been able to do is make a playlist of all my songs then set it to "Shuffle at Startup" or something like that. i love the informative sidebar, and the auto-CD cover. I don't quite understand how it rates how much you like the song.

Nice album cover, btw. Very, um, wholesome.

I use iTunes when working with Windows. Podcasts are easy to subsribe to. Besides, being an iPod user I am stuck with it, but not like that is a bad thing.
I have a friend that managed to get GTKpod working in Cygwin

I have a friend that managed to get GTKpod working in Cygwin
Real thats kinda cool. Would not try it though,cuz even if I did not have an iPod, I would still use iTunes.

Was it configuration hell, or relatively simple?


EDIT: Just attempted to try to install the Ubuntu 6.06 beta, and it did not work. After running Alphas 4 and 5, the beta decided to crap out on me. *sigh*

Mmmmm. AmaroK. I love it. Using it right now, in fact.

There really isn't, currently, a Windows equivalent that even begins to stack up. I still use Winamp 2.x when I'm forced into Windows. It's good, but it's certainly showing it's age now. I would never go back to something like that on a permanent basis. AmaroK has spoiled me for lesser apps.

Mmmmm. AmaroK. I love it. Using it right now, in fact.

There really isn't, currently, a Windows equivalent that even begins to stack up. I still use Winamp 2.x when I'm forced into Windows. It's good, but it's certainly showing it's age now. I would never go back to something like that on a permanent basis. AmaroK has spoiled me for lesser apps.
I am mostly using Windowsfor audio right now. Audio in Ubuntu won't work with the i386 kernel, which is the only one that works (the new 2.6.15.6-20 kernels all give the same error message when I boot.

Meponders, would x86-64 be worth the download? Sure I won't have multimedia codecs, which go unused now, but maybe, I could get decent performance. USELESS INFO FOLLOWS: a main goal for Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" is to have all the x86 binaries compatablewith the x86-64 kernels.

When working in Linux, I cannot do without AmaroK. It is my single most favourite piece of Linux software. I love how it fetches covers, and gets them right. (http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6861/snapshot26np.png) The same goes to say about lyrics. It's also fun how it keeps track of what my favourite songs are, making me realise I really have crappy taste in music...

But, still, when working in Windows I just find myself missing it and have been unable to find any worthy substitute, with WMP making me twitch, and Winamp just sucking in its latest versions. Someone out there have any suggestions?
Figure out a substitute yet?

Or you could try to install AmaroK with Cygwin on Windows.

iTunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/)
Songbird (http://www.songbirdnest.com/)

Neither of them of are the same quality as amaroK, I'm afraid. Too bad noone's wasted the time to port all the necessary kdelibs to Windows.