amaroK 1.2 crashing too often

["Basajaun" <isilanes@bluebottle.com>]

Hi all,

I am running Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-2-686. When I discovered
amaroK, it was version 1.1 in Sarge, and 1.2 in Sid (I think). Although
1.2 has some nice features that 1.1 does not have, I waited until 1.2
eventually made it to Sarge (at present the same version of amaroK is
in both Sarge and Sid, that is, 1.2.3-1).

My problem is that it crashes every couple of ours or less, sometimes
even freezing the keyboard (not the mouse). I have read in this list
(http://makeashorterlink.com/?A48721C2B) that the libflac4 in Sid is
bugged, and that using liblac4 1.1.0-11 (from Sarge) is recommended,
but that is the one I am using. Also JuK, for example, does not crash,
so the problem does not seem to be related to that library.
Additionally, I have to say that amaroK 1.1 did not crash half as much
as 1.2 does.

One friend of mine runs amaroK 1.2 on Slackware 10.1, and it barely
crashes on him (although it does crash). If these crashes are a
"feature" of the amaroK package, I am amazed by the fact that it is
included in a distribution (Sarge) that is about to become Stable. In
fact, its instability should not entitle it to be anyware but Sid,
IMHO.

I would greatly appreciate any help to either fix this problem or
suggest a replacement. Right now I am using JuK, but I like amaroK
better... if it just didn't crash so much...

Thanks in advance,

     Basajaun