[clue-tech] Favorite Streaming Media Player?

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 17:22 -0700, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> > Have you checked out rhythmbox ?
> Uh, looks kinda Gnomish. :)

It is.  It's the GNOME Amarok, I guess.

> Right now, I'm trying out Amarok. Kinda clunky, IMHO, but I suppose I can
> get used to it.

Amarok wasn't bad in it's previous release (pre 2.x).  I was able to do
some tagging in it and managed to use it to upload my archives onto the
iPod Nano my daughter got me for xmas.  But I hadn't created any
playlists yet and that's what's missing on my iPod - decent playlists.

The Amarok developers apparently did a complete rewrite (or something
like that) and managed to make it completely unusable now.  I've tried
for hours to figure out 2.x and simply can't figure out how to do simple
things like start playing an album, never mind creating a playlist and
uploading that to my ipod.  This was easy in 1.x.  It's just not doing
what you (okay, I) expect it to do in 2.x. 

I switched to Rhythmbox today and was able to get an album to play
inside of a few minutes.  I'm now a rhythmbox user.  Amarok blew it.  I
just don't know if I'll ever get to create playlists to upload to my
iPod.

FYI: I don't listen to online streams with either tool.  I just use them
to work with my personal collections.
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Michael J. Hammel                               
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