Have you ever looked at what itunes does when you tell it to organize your library for you?
Yes, it handles classical music very badly. Sorting by composer, year (very important because some composers do the same music at different years), orchestra, original composer etc.
While I can do this sort of sorting in Amarok, in iTunes it's impossible and screws up the entire directory structure.
My Amarok right now has 15,835 tracks queued in the playlist. It states 6 weeks and 5 days of music, and I intend to reach that destination. It's about four days in now, not a single problem.
It's not the destination, it's the journey that counts!
1. No auto-cover-fetch for artwork. Amarok has it. So, do quite a few other players. I'm guessing Apple is too chicken-shit to do it because of copyright concerns, but I simply don't care.
They do have it, but you need a verified (paid) account from Apple to get it.
No, you can't skip the registration, you can't do it later, you can lie if you want to but you have to fill these fields out, and if you don't have an internet connection availible it will strongly suggest you register later.
Use the force quit shortcut keys, it works.
You get to your desktop, and it's beautiful. You can customize the window decorations, you have the whole choice between 'Aqua' and 'Graphite'. Basically, Graphite is a colorless Aqua
Please, do not start with complaining about iTunes' "lack" of features. Given that BOTH Amarok AND Songbird lack the ability to RIP or BURN music CD's, I don't really wanna hear it.
Install k3b and Amarok will have the option to launch k3b to do it. Remember, Amarork is part of the KDE desktop and there is no point to replicate functionality that exists in the KDE desktop ten times.
You know how agrivating it is to try to burn a CD and have it re-direct you to K3B, which then errors out because your audio format, which works fine in Amarok, isn't compatible with IT?
I don't have that problem, nor can I replicate the issue on fresh installs. Must be just you.
Batch encoding is a JOKE in Amarok, which is aggrivating given that you realize you're better off settling for converting to MP3 in iTunes using iTunes' crappy MP3 encoder.
I find iTunes far slower at converting.
In iTunes, not only is your music added to the player, but so are your playlists, and when you have 10 gigs of music, it's nice to have immediate access to the arrangements of the 20 some odd songs you're enjoying at the moment.
Amarok adds the playlists too and has done so for as long as I can remember.
Don't talk shit about Apple's setup 'till you can present an app that's better or at least EQUIVILANT. I'm not talking about compatibility with a handful of devices, I'm talking about actually having that great handful of FEATURES in syncing.
Personally speaking - I'm not interested in me music player to do more than sync music with my portable devices, but that's me.
Oh cool! These will drive my Apple TV, iPod, iPhone
No.
let me rip cd's, convert files, stream radio, subscribe to podcasts, drive network speakers, create genius playlists, discover other libraries on the network and allow me to listen to them (at work), and purchase music and video online?
Since iTunes won't sync it I was hoping that some open source solution existed. While I was very impressed by how far Songbird has come as a music player, the lack of sync options made me go back to iTunes:(
You went back to a player that had less features (except for certain Apple lock-in/DRM features), why?
Additionally, Amarok has full syncing options.
BUT, since songbird can use fancy plugins, maybe some smart person will realize that we need music sync support for non-ipod devices (and ipods too, I suppose) and write some plugins.
pity standard X over a low bandwidth network sucks balls compared to VNC.
X actually works fine for me on low bandwith links (high latency GPRS connections - Using X with SSH parameters: -Y -C). VNC however just redraws and redraws and redraws so slowly, and that's with only 256 colours, never mind the full 32bit.
Additionaly, I can also just run the one specific program I need to run - VNC requires the whole desktop.
The parent isn't trolling, there are many pirated games that are like above. One example is the pirate copy of X3: Terran conflict, requiring you to install disc emulators, mounting disc images, living with the DRM system included which in some cases may require you to actually unplug your real optical drive.
it runs on 59 platforms currently (including a toaster).
Still pretty sure Linux runs on more (considering it runs on devices ranging from mobile phones to supercomputers). Hell, there is even a Linux port for Micro controllers.
and I can compile the code or get binaries right now for any of them, no crazy patching or anything. and that's for the whole OS (mostly) not just the kernel.
At least the basic GNU tools have been ported to every platform.
If I book came with that ToS it would be laughed out of court.
You agree the subscriber agreement before doing any kind of purchase. This is different from a book just comming with it. This is the shop dealer telling you the conditions before he allows you to purchase.
I know, but as I pointed out if I couldnt do that then I'm not likely to use steam at all.
Valve's rules, not yours.
paid extra to get the steam version of a few games so that we could all share.
You should of read the subscriber agreement then, you are violating the terms. It's not like they pulled a switch and bait tactic, it's always been that way.
Otherwise I'd get a used copy from ebay for half the price and the publisher doesnt get a dime from it.
You were free to do that, but you didn't. Now you're in violation of the terms.
It is interactions with and between windows in X that is slow. E.g. without compositing, each windows framebuffer is not stored in memory. That means that when you unminimize a window it has to repaint itself. When you move a window so that a window beneath it becomes visible, that window has to repaint itself. So when you dragged a window on top of a firefox window showing gmail, that would cause huge rendering artifacts and slowdowns everywhere because the gmail gui is constructed using javascript which firefox had to reinterpret.
Running X apps over an internet link versus a LAN is an extreme case, admittedly - but nevertheless, an old Athena app can do it, while the simplest of GTK or QT apps can have a real problem with it...
I have ran KDE and Gnome applications over high latency GPRS connections using SSH and X (fixing settings remotely for users)...
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Yes, it handles classical music very badly. Sorting by composer, year (very important because some composers do the same music at different years), orchestra, original composer etc.
While I can do this sort of sorting in Amarok, in iTunes it's impossible and screws up the entire directory structure.
It's not the destination, it's the journey that counts!
I have 5300 tracks in Amarok currently.
Amarok does this.
They do have it, but you need a verified (paid) account from Apple to get it.
Use the force quit shortcut keys, it works.
I don't like it. As for customizations.... Apple is rather primitive, compared to other solutions.
Install k3b and Amarok will have the option to launch k3b to do it. Remember, Amarork is part of the KDE desktop and there is no point to replicate functionality that exists in the KDE desktop ten times.
I don't have that problem, nor can I replicate the issue on fresh installs. Must be just you.
I find iTunes far slower at converting.
Amarok adds the playlists too and has done so for as long as I can remember.
Personally speaking - I'm not interested in me music player to do more than sync music with my portable devices, but that's me.
No.
Yes.
I personally don't see the point in porting to a architecture that is incapable of attaining new users and dying quickly.
And you speak for those millions?
You went back to a player that had less features (except for certain Apple lock-in/DRM features), why?
Additionally, Amarok has full syncing options.
In my first Google search, I found http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/12
I haven't bothered exploring the other addons.
No.
Yes.
Can I access my iTunes-U account with it?
I have no idea what that is, so I'll say no.
They also don't work with Apple DRM.
Indeed, iTunes is the best to use with Apple lock-ins.
X actually works fine for me on low bandwith links (high latency GPRS connections - Using X with SSH parameters: -Y -C). VNC however just redraws and redraws and redraws so slowly, and that's with only 256 colours, never mind the full 32bit.
Additionaly, I can also just run the one specific program I need to run - VNC requires the whole desktop.
Using pipes is one of the most useful things I've found.
In my signature, a simple HEADER checker:
Testing your microphone input:
Harassing someone by sending your mic input to their soundcard output:
Back up something over the network to a file.
Decompress something that you don't have the space to do on either server or computer, or just don't want to waste time.
A few non-pipe related tips:
Wine prefixes - a method to create unique Wine directories to separate local 'wine' setups.
If you ever have a game crash, you may have noticed that X doesn't automatically switch back to your default resolution, this can be done with:
Hope this was useful to someone.
By having a peer on that torrent that downloads small portions of the file to verify.
The parent isn't trolling, there are many pirated games that are like above. One example is the pirate copy of X3: Terran conflict, requiring you to install disc emulators, mounting disc images, living with the DRM system included which in some cases may require you to actually unplug your real optical drive.
Still pretty sure Linux runs on more (considering it runs on devices ranging from mobile phones to supercomputers). Hell, there is even a Linux port for Micro controllers.
At least the basic GNU tools have been ported to every platform.
If you check out the Steam forums, they make it clear it's a ToS violation whenever someone claims to do it.
Steam is per user, not per computer.
I honestly don't think NetBSD runs on as many devices as Linux does.
You don't see homebrew communities working that much on port netbsd either. Just look at the Nintendo DS, Linux there, no NetBSD.
Indeed! Now if only that person used the distro packages instead of his custom installed ones - How do I know?
The libraries are in /usr/local/lib/, he said it himself!
You agree the subscriber agreement before doing any kind of purchase. This is different from a book just comming with it. This is the shop dealer telling you the conditions before he allows you to purchase.
Valve's rules, not yours.
You should of read the subscriber agreement then, you are violating the terms. It's not like they pulled a switch and bait tactic, it's always been that way.
You were free to do that, but you didn't. Now you're in violation of the terms.
The sniper.
You are violating the ToS.
I am aware of these facts. Fortunately using a nVidia driver has it's benefits with the few annoyances that plague x.org.
Yep! Dead easy. I remember when I created dumb terminal clients that just executed "ssh -Y xlogin@host startkde". Worked fantastic.
How is "ssh -Y" not easy?
I have ran KDE and Gnome applications over high latency GPRS connections using SSH and X (fixing settings remotely for users)...
I honestly didn't have any issues.