Fwd: Removing amarok

[Michael Devendra Lutynski]

Yes, I like Yarock too--it seems to be well written. No, I don't know the
developer, though I imagine he should hear from me as he needs to know
there are fans for his labor of love.

Michael

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Clive Johnston <clivejo at kubuntu.org> wrote:

> 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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