Amarok vs Media Monkey..$20.00 vs a lifetime of frustration......

I've used Amarok since it was pre 1.0 and have always found it to be slow,
bloated and unstable.

Additionally the interface has to rank amongst the worst interfaces EVER on
the face of the earth bar no operating system including cli based DOS.

Sure Amarok looks great on paper.
It's a veritable Swiss Army Knife of a media application.

The problems start when you try and actually use if, especially on large
collections like 20k files or more.

Amarok goes out to lunch, offers little or no feedback as to what it is
doing other than that stupid graph paper like icon at the bottom of the
screen and is highly unstable and slow.

Enter Media Monkey...

Frankly I had never heard of this program until I recently bought an iPod,
a real iPod....

I'm not a big fan of iTunes, although it's ok and I absolutely hate
Microsoft Media Player, so I was looking...

Media Monkey is a dream come true.
Simple, powerful, FAST, stable and logical is the forte' of this program.

I'm not going to go into details, but if Linux wants to play hardball in
the personal media world, and it better because that's the future, Media
Monkey is the program to beat.
It's THAT good....

Example?
Glad you asked....

I have many files stored in lossless flac format..
iPod doesn't support flac....
Media Monkey converts automatically, on the fly, when I sync to iPod
without touching the source files.
All set up from the getgo...I did nothing to make this work.

Simple example, but a very useful tool.
it is also extremely fast at doing it.

Amarok?

A buggy piece of crap that makes all kinds of promises but delivers on so
very few of them.

Media Monkey?

The best $20.00 I ever spent.

So what is your time and data worth?
If nothing, try Amarok...

If you value your time and data, pony up $20.00 or use the free version and
get your life back so you actually have time to listen to your music
instead of trying to make it work on your iPod player.




--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

Micoshaft asstroturfing fraudster pounding the sock Moshe Goldfarb
wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Department of Marketing:


> I


Obviously a liar employed by Micoshaft Marketing department.

There is no way someone would continue to use a bad product let alone
post marketing spiel to buy a proprietory product.


In anycase GStreamer does everything. Thats choice for you.
You can for example run up streamtuner and tune into 10,000+
internet radio stations, or play jitter free videos. All free under Linux
and Ubuntu.

http://www.ubuntu.com
http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com

Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
> I've used Amarok since it was pre 1.0 and have always found it to be slow,
> bloated and unstable.
>
> Additionally the interface has to rank amongst the worst interfaces EVER on
> the face of the earth bar no operating system including cli based DOS.
>
> Sure Amarok looks great on paper.
> It's a veritable Swiss Army Knife of a media application.
>
> The problems start when you try and actually use if, especially on large
> collections like 20k files or more.

That big, eh? My music collection is bigger than 20GB and I have no
problems with Amarok at all.

Alias

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
news:g741sf$nf5$...
> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>> I've used Amarok since it was pre 1.0 and have always found it to be
>> slow,
>> bloated and unstable.
>>
>> Additionally the interface has to rank amongst the worst interfaces EVER
>> on
>> the face of the earth bar no operating system including cli based DOS.
>>
>> Sure Amarok looks great on paper.
>> It's a veritable Swiss Army Knife of a media application.
>>
>> The problems start when you try and actually use if, especially on large
>> collections like 20k files or more.
>
> That big, eh? My music collection is bigger than 20GB and I have no
> problems with Amarok at all.
>
> Alias
>

That was 20K files ( 20,000 files ) Alias.
ruff ruff

Hobbes wrote:
>
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:g741sf$nf5$...
>> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>>> I've used Amarok since it was pre 1.0 and have always found it to be
>>> slow,
>>> bloated and unstable.
>>>
>>> Additionally the interface has to rank amongst the worst interfaces
>>> EVER on
>>> the face of the earth bar no operating system including cli based DOS.
>>>
>>> Sure Amarok looks great on paper.
>>> It's a veritable Swiss Army Knife of a media application.
>>>
>>> The problems start when you try and actually use if, especially on large
>>> collections like 20k files or more.
>>
>> That big, eh? My music collection is bigger than 20GB and I have no
>> problems with Amarok at all.
>>
>> Alias
>>
>
> That was 20K files ( 20,000 files ) Alias.
> ruff ruff

I have more files than that and no problems.

Alias

"Alias" <aka@mascaradoyanónimo.jo> wrote in message
news:g7444p$v4j$...
> Hobbes wrote:
>>
>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:g741sf$nf5$...
>>> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>>>> I've used Amarok since it was pre 1.0 and have always found it to be
>>>> slow,
>>>> bloated and unstable.
>>>>
>>>> Additionally the interface has to rank amongst the worst interfaces
>>>> EVER on
>>>> the face of the earth bar no operating system including cli based DOS.
>>>>
>>>> Sure Amarok looks great on paper.
>>>> It's a veritable Swiss Army Knife of a media application.
>>>>
>>>> The problems start when you try and actually use if, especially on
>>>> large
>>>> collections like 20k files or more.
>>>
>>> That big, eh? My music collection is bigger than 20GB and I have no
>>> problems with Amarok at all.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>>
>>
>> That was 20K files ( 20,000 files ) Alias.
>> ruff ruff
>
> I have more files than that and no problems.
>
> Alias
>


You are a buzy little beaver aren't you ?
If you start at song 1 today, by Christmas you'll have listened to them all.

If you played them in Windows...they would sound better.

--
Hobbes, Tiger Extraordinaire

Hobbes wrote:
> "Alias" <aka@mascaradoyanónimo.jo> wrote in message
> news:g7444p$v4j$...
>> Hobbes wrote:
>>>
>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:g741sf$nf5$...
>>>> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>>>>> I've used Amarok since it was pre 1.0 and have always found it to
>>>>> be slow,
>>>>> bloated and unstable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Additionally the interface has to rank amongst the worst interfaces
>>>>> EVER on
>>>>> the face of the earth bar no operating system including cli based DOS.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure Amarok looks great on paper.
>>>>> It's a veritable Swiss Army Knife of a media application.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problems start when you try and actually use if, especially on
>>>>> large
>>>>> collections like 20k files or more.
>>>>
>>>> That big, eh? My music collection is bigger than 20GB and I have no
>>>> problems with Amarok at all.
>>>>
>>>> Alias
>>>>
>>>
>>> That was 20K files ( 20,000 files ) Alias.
>>> ruff ruff
>>
>> I have more files than that and no problems.
>>
>> Alias
>>
>
>
> You are a buzy [sic] little beaver aren't you ?
> If you start at song 1 today, by Christmas you'll have listened to them
> all.
>
> If you played them in Windows...they would sound better.

False. The sound card and the stereo system I have the computer hooked
up to don't care what OS it's using and they sound the same.

Alias

Em Domingo, 3 de Agosto de 2008 12:28, Hobbes escreveu:
>
> If you played them in Windows...they would sound better.
>
if you like rap music...

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:04:17 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:

> I've used Amarok since it was pre 1.0 and have always found it to be
> slow, bloated and unstable.
>
> Additionally the interface has to rank amongst the worst interfaces EVER
> on the face of the earth bar no operating system including cli based
> DOS.
>
>


you really are insane.

bob <> writes:

> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:04:17 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>
>> I've used Amarok since it was pre 1.0 and have always found it to be
>> slow, bloated and unstable.
>>
>> Additionally the interface has to rank amongst the worst interfaces EVER
>> on the face of the earth bar no operating system including cli based
>> DOS.
>>
>>
>
>
> you really are insane.

Nice things about Amarok:

OSD config

Bad things:

Awful play list handling.
Radio streams do not work.
Unstable.
Pulse audio does not work.
Hangs on importing large directories of mixed music types.

--
"The Linux community re-invents the wheel every month or so. The only
problem is, their version is square"
-- "Moshe Goldfarb." <> in comp.os.linux.advocacy