Re: [MLUG] iTunes replacement?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Michael wrote:

> I use Amarok in Linux and it does okay. I tried a couple other similar 
> programs and they were pretty unstable. Amarok isn't quite as slick as 
> iTunes and does have a bit of lock up if you try to feed 1000's of MP3s 
> into it at once but overall it crashes less and has fewer annoying 
> quirks than iTunes does. It's still on my bitch list that programmers 
> start adding features and worrying about how a program looks before they 
> iron out basic issues like, for this type of program, indexing and 
> playing music files.

It seems like people care a lot about "skins" and the way the product 
looks on the screen.  I don't mind a cool look, but I care more about 
functionality.  Can I see the info I want to see about my files in the 
main index?  Can I sort them as I please?  Is it easy to make playlists? 
Does it find all of my files?  And of course we don't want bugs.


> Of course I'm grumpy about programmers ignoring basic stability before 
> going hog wild as Thunderbird has managed to lose several years of mail 
> suddenly this past week as it's storage system obviously has a bug in 
> recent versions. Old versions would say that a foldr was full and no 
> more messages could be moved there - newer versions are just wiping out 
> the folder and starting over. Doh! A 4GB folder limit is ridiculous 
> anyway as is flat-file storage of messages.

Holy crap -- that is amazing.  Talk about a serious bug!  I'm glad I'm not 
using Thunderbird.  On the other hand, it looks like I'm only up to 1.2 GB 
in my mail folder.  I guess this is because I delete the crap and store 
most attachments elsewhere.  Still, 4GB is a lot of email!

Mike

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