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Amarok 2.8 "Return To the Origin" Released

Posted by timothy on from the heavily-stimulating dept.

jrepin writes "Music player Amarok 2.8 has been released and it brings a fancy audio analyzer visualization applet, smooth fade-out when pausing music, many UI improvements and visual tweaks including better support for alternate color themes, significantly enhanced MusicBrainz tagger, power management awareness with a pair of new configuration options, and performance optimizations and responsiveness tuning all over Amarok."

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  1. Re:Twice as good as 1.4 by vilanye · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Agree I dealt with it until about a year ago when it started up and immediately grabbed about 600MB of RAM. Ditched it and been happy with Clementine ever since.

    It is a shame that they ruined what was once the best music player you could get.

  2. Re:Twice as good as 1.4 by swaq · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I ditched Amarok for Clementine a while back as well. It just works better. I don't see how adding a bunch of new features is a "Return to the Origin"...

  3. Bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I ditched Amarok over a year ago. Once they lost the option to make it a small interface similar to xmms I got rid of it. Even on a quad core with 8gb of ram the thing froze, couldn't handle large play lists and just sucked.

  4. people still care about visualization? by kcmastrpc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's must be the fact that i'm over 30 and no longer take LSD.

  5. Huh. by _KiTA_ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Am I the only one who stuck with Foobar2000 back in the day, once Winamp self destructed?

    I mean I have the rather... shoddy... Google Play Music on my Android Tablet, but on the PC, Foobar2000 does everything I thought I needed. Is there a compelling reason to try Clementine / Amarok?