Last.fm radio in Amarok blows
Compared to the official Last.fm Player, Amarok's Last.fm radio streaming blows. The official player does the job much better than Amarok!
Amarok is an open Linux music library manager for KDE. That is the problem. It is a music library manager! Not a streaming radio player! It is just too blotted, and it does not even allow skipping tracks!
Last.fm Player is a small application that simply does the job. It plays Last.fm radio streams, shows minimal track information, and does not do too much else. It handles the lastfm:// protocol much better than Amarok too!
The Amarok team needs to work out the skip track feature, and needs to make Last.fm streams play more minimalistic. Possibly having it play right of the Context view?
Copyright © 2007 Daniel Aleksandersen 2007-06-03 at 03:06
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2 comments
My experience with KDE, is that all the software bundled is bloat. Konqueror can't work with my cell phone, nor does amaroK acts like a proper player.
last.fm though, is a great feature for music lovers.. Great artictle to spread last.fm.
Comment by Birger Nordølum at 2007-06-19 @815.
Birger, a mobile phone version of KDE cannot be expected to be all that much. Try the desktop version for a few weeks instead!
Amarok is really different from other music players. (And other KDE software, but that should be made more coherent in the new release for KDE 4.) If you are used to anything like iTunes or Winamp then the logic of Amarok will be problematic to adapt to. However when you get used to it: It is a fantastic player!
And I where merely criticizing the Last.fm - Amarok integration. It blows.
Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-06-20 @364.
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