On 30/03/2019 19.37, gumb wrote:
On 30/03/2019 19:22, James Knott wrote:
On 03/30/2019 11:54 AM, gumb wrote:
On 30/03/2019 16:52, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Look, I'm looking for an amarok or banshee replacement, not a simple player.
Isn't Clementine available on Leap 15? I'm still on 42.3 so can't be sure.
Yast says it's based on Amarok 1.4. However, Amarok is at 2.9. That seems to be a step back.
Not particularly. Clementine was a deliberate fork of the Amarok 1.x version after the latter progressed to 2.x. At the time the project began, my sentiments were broadly 'ah, a music player for backwards people who don't want to move with the times', or something of such cynical nature. As a KDE4 early adopter I'd spent over three years closely following Amarok development and trying every new point release in the hope of setting up both myself on it and my father with his huge music collection. But with every point release came some new bug or regression, it crashed frequently, I reported a couple of bugs which got acknowledged, only to be closed again, at first mistakenly and then willingly, and after three years I was tearing my hair out. So I looked for an alternative, tried Clementine and then forgave all those backwards-looking people I'd formed an image of in my overly-dismissive mind.
Unlike the long wait at start up for Amarok to load its heavy database even when I had no songs in it, Clementine starts in a snap. The interface is a bit of a hybrid but doesn't look too out of place on any DE. Simple enough for my dad to understand but with enough features and configurability under the hood.
Clementine is not as feature rich as Amarok, but as you say, it works. The problem is that KDE4/Qt4 are going to be removed from factory because upstream support has ceased. That means that Amarok is going. Its Qt5/KF5 port is not progressing, it is apparently not usable. That leaves Clementine, but it also doesn't have a released Qt5 version, but a git snapshot version. Which is why I thought of banshee (which I did not like much last time I tried). The surprise: there is no 15.0 version. I just heard of mpd. It is a daemon, it needs a client.
I must have watched a hundred other media and music players come and go over the last decade (see the RSS feeds for openDesktop apps, it seems every new developer creates one as a pet project then abandons it soon after), but Clementine still does the job.
gumb
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)