Re: Amarok, Juk & Elisa

["Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox@xxxxxx>]

Yeah, I'll echo your concerns about juk...

I just installed it to test and immediately noticed that it doesn't pick up cover images from within the directory structure (files named folder.jpg) which

is a default standard across many applications.  The other thing is if you have a large music directory, the initial scan is extremely slow... and

at least for me, when I close the application, it hangs then crashes.  JuK tries too much to be amaroK lite.

I realize it's it a kde multimedia application, but I don't believe it gives a good user experience - abends notwithstanding.

A much better choice, IMHO for people to use is qmmp - it's light weight, runs with qt5 and does what it sets out to do, which is

be a flexible, lightweight music player that runs on qt5, supports skins, has many good plugins for extra features, supports tagged and folder based

album covers, etc.  A bonus, I've have yet to have it crash on me.  If you haven't tried it, you should check it out.

Regarding elisa, as another person had mentioned - it's not yet ready for prime time - and even when it is, I haven't seen a compelling reason to

switch from qmmp - but I'm keeping an open mind as they add features, etc.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Joe Buckley <jos.buckley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I hope this is appropriate. I'm not a contributor, but I am a long-time KDE (Fedora) user who has an extensive music collection on my lap-top.

Since I saw the discussion about dropping Amarok (because of the use of qt4???) I installed and tried to configure juk. My experience is - it's not quite ready for prime time.

Once juk is given a directory it creates a "collection" (it's a surprisingly confusing term!). That collection cannot be changed (or at least, the way to change it is lost in the mists of antiquity). Apparently, "collection" is not "directory" or "folder".

A folder, once created, cannot be removed without crashing juk. At least, I found a way to create a folder that crashes juk when any attempt to remove from juk is made.

Playlists are displayed in no known order. It is certainly not alphabetical.

Column order cannot be changed.

Changes to the settings (like, removing the comment column) are not retained from session to session.

I'm starting to hope that Amarok is kept in the live image.

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~ Joe Buckley

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