Fwd: Removing amarok

[Clive Johnston]

I had never heard of Yarock so decided to throw it into some packaging and
take a look.  It is rather snappy on my artful install and I kinda like
it.  Seems to use VLC as the back-end, but grabs info on songs like
Amarok.  Do you know the developer?

For anyone who wants a noisy, it's in my PPA -
https://launchpad.net/~clivejo/+archive/ubuntu/yarock

On 16 September 2017 at 05:43, Michael Devendra Lutynski <
michael.lutynski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Kubuntu Devs,
>
> To add to this discussion... when I install Kubuntu on friends' and
> clients' machines, who are just average people wanting a stress-free
> computing experience, I remove Amarok and put in something that feels more
> intuitive to them.
>
> Lately, I've been putting on Musique <http://flavio.tordini.org/musique>
> (sadly it's Qt4), but more promisingly Yarock
> <http://seb-apps.github.io/yarock/>, a Qt5 app that bills itself as a
> "Modern and elegant linux music player", and everyone seems to "get it".
> It's quite feature-full and looks good too.
>
> My one regret is that it's not in Debian/Ubuntu's repos nor do I know who
> to poke to get it added, as I think it'd be a great fit for Kubuntu until
> the new KDE-specific music player comes of age. I add it via PPA's.
>
> ~Michael
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Mitch Golden <mgolden at mitchgolden.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ah, right. Bummer.
>>
>> On 09/15/2017 12:24 PM, Aaron Honeycutt wrote:
>>
>>> Clementine is also Qt4.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Mitch Golden <mgolden at mitchgolden.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09/15/2017 12:38 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Right now, Cantata seemed like the best choice, although I agree
>>>>     with you that it is less than desirable. There is a new player now
>>>>     called "Babe" (hopefully soon to be renamed) which has not yet has
>>>>     its first release. When it is, we will re-assess. We didn't want
>>>>     to release 17.10 with no music player, and we couldn't justify
>>>>     Amarok. For 18.04 we hope there will be better options.
>>>> Has there been any discussion of replacing Amarok with Clementine,
>>>> which has most of the features and seems to be in better shape as a
>>>> project. It's not very active, but it's not dead, seemingly. - Mitch Golden
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