Music ?

[Rick]

On Sat, 16 May 2009 20:41:48 -0500
Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 May 2009 20:41:34 -0400
> Rick <rick0009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Have a massive audio collection, 800GB of wma, .mp3, flac...
> > now that I am using linux (ubuntu), would like know,
> > what is the best app for managing such a large collection,
> > that offers allot details, like meta-data, custom fields (tags),
> > and music art.
> > 
> > Major Thank!
> > 
> > Rick
> > 
> 
> I like Amarok. That being said however, you might want to consider
> which version. The new (2.x w/Ubu 9.04) has one thing that I like as a
> default install - MySQL as the database.
> 
> That being said, I HATE 2.x - I have opted to install Amarok 1.4 - the
> drawback with that is the base install uses sqlite. That's Ok if you
> have a small collection. So - I use the wiki that walks you through
> setting up MySQL as the database. As if you had not gotten the point
> of why use MySQL - it will handle your large collection and will be
> much much faster then the default SQLite (Of course, that is if you
> opt for the later version of Amarok).
> 
> 
> 

does this work well, in ubuntu 9.04?
is this a KDE app?

Rick