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Amarok 2.8 "Return To the Origin" Released
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."
Not until the entire audio layer in Linux works better with more hardware, including pro stuff like Avid, Focusrite, MOTU, etc.
It's still too fussy to get good audio out of Linux. Though I realize it's not entirely the fault of Linux.
It's great for streaming samples, rendering, etc, but not for actually playing or producing audio, without a whole lot of fiddling.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm a Gentoo user, and I ditched Amarok a few versions ago, when it started insisting I compile kdelibs with +semantic-desktop AND expected nepomuk to be running, too. I told that fucking camel to get its nose right out of my tent.