Amarok 2.2/1.4

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Lisi,

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 23:51, Lisi <lisi.reisz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kubuntu Karmic -
>
> Amarok 2.2 keeps crashing, is difficult to persuade that it should play the
> whole of a CD.

Please see my answer in the KDE forum this morning.

For @all: there is a newer version, Amarok 2.2.1 in the kubuntu
backports PPA as described here:
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/amarok-2.2.1
This is perfectly save to use, the same repository contains also the
newly released KOffice 2.1 for those interested. Else you just select
the Amarok packages alone (which are amarok, amarok-common,
amarok-utils and amarok-dbg, the latter only if you ever want to be
able to produce valid debugging outputs).

As you can see in the changelog over the 7 weeks development cycle
here: http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.2.1
the amount of bugfixes has been enormous and 2.2.1 is very stable and
reliable. Just make sure you do a full collection rescan at first
start, then restart Amarok once to have an updated database showing
(this is due to a Collection browser update bug that we still try to
fix).

The main reason why it is not a good idea to use 1.4 anymore is that
it depends on KDE 3. Both are not maintained anymore, even Gentoo will
remove KDE3 from their sources in a few days (the last resistants are
Debian, but that is also just a matter of time). There has been no
code adjustments or bugfixes or patches to Amarok 1.4 since almost 2
years, a lot of the functions do not work anymore (last.fm changed
their API so no more scrobbling, Amazon changed their API so no new
cover fetching, etc.) and Amarok 1.4 is facing slow decay and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot. There is no more support to be
expected from the distributions neither, unless you go to Debian who
will probably not be very keen to help you for your Kubuntu system.


Regards, Myriam
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