Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok
On 21/06/11 09:52, he who wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> <mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net>> wrote:
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> On 06/20/2011 07:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> [snip]
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> Unfortunately Aqualung has only a small subset of Amarok 2s
> capabilities. And I've yet to find anything that matches Amarok - it
> easily handles my 260GB music collection (53k+ songs (5130
> albums) as
> well as lyric files, photos, music videos, and album art - auto
> display
> of Wikipedia entries for playing tracks - plugins for musicbrainz,
> dozens of extension scripts, and it's easy to write more. It
> uses mysql
> (or other) database and has extensive playlist capability.
> As an added bonus it crashes every time I shut it down :-( But
> nothing
> breaks, and nothing beats it.
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> The music files are stored directly in a database?
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> Just playlists and program specific information I believe. The music
> directories, files, their tags and any changes therein made by Amarok
> remain accessible by other programs.
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> --
> Regards,
> Freeman
>
Yes.
The point, which I failed to make, is that I can modify the database to
suit my own requirements, without being restricted to the music
player/collection manager interface. Amarok doesn't alter the actual
files and happily works with files in multiple locations.
All the other music players that I've tried don't work well with large
collections and/or don't allow me to use musicbrainz. Amarok can
directly use musicbrainz but doesn't stop me from using Picard as well.
The crash on closing I experience (Squeeze) may well be one of my dodgy
scripts - but as it doesn't reduce the functionality of Amarok I can
happily live with it.
Cheers
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