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kaymastah TechSpot Member Registered: January 2006 Location: Manchester, CT Posts: 63	latest KDE with some eye candy turned on (shadows transparency) along with the best music player ever -> AMAROK!
	· Date: January 14, 2006 · Views: 17917 · Filesize: 59.5kb, 490.2kb · Dimensions: 1280 x 1024 ·
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luvhuffer

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January 14, 2006 23:46

The band Porcupine Tree is darn good isn't it!

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kaymastah

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January 15, 2006 08:39

Darn good is not good enough... :P they're AWESOME!

Fiziks

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January 16, 2006 14:41

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ok I dled Amarok and I have a few q's.. firstly, does it sometimes sound as if it's making a click sound during the crossfade for you?

and when I drag my tracks to the right side it registers two copies of each song... just wondering if you have had any problems with the program...

otherwise props to amarok; steady, quick, feature rich, and sleek... better than any windows based media player in my opinion.

kaymastah

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January 16, 2006 22:53

Ummm, what distro are you running? what sound system on top of alsa (or maybe still OSS)? I use it on Gentoo with quite a few flags on. It runs just fine for me with both xine and gstreamer engines. They found a nice way to cooperate with arts so no need for me to kill it, like with some other apps. I haven't observed any of the problems you mentioned. Oh well, sometimes we all need to deal with minor obstacles... ;] That's part of the fun with Linux. The more you know, the smaller those obstacles become.

Anyway, Amarok really rocks! --khmmm, it's AMAROK ROCK!

Fiziks

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January 17, 2006 17:02

i'm using the Xine engine on mandriva 2006... i have a feeling there's a problem with my RAM

kaymastah

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January 17, 2006 18:03

Mandriva uses KDE by default right? Which version is it? Arts is being remodeled - maybe that adds to the problem? Check out alsa, arts and amarok forums for more help. Or even better - switch to gentoo ;P

Fiziks

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January 17, 2006 18:39

it uses whichever you install I suppose... I use KDE 3.4, but I don't think that could effect the audio output...

I think I have it down to either a faulty IDE cable. because I have my mandriva partition on my secondary IDE channel along with my music/video (which is on a NTFS partition btw) and my optical drive, or a Ram problem because sometimes in linux when I scroll pages and open menus it will show artifacts spanning horizontally (but this doesn't happen all the time).

Ram is crucial 2700

Processor is socket A sempron 3000+

one of the fasteners on one stick of the RAM is broken off... but I have the cpu on it's side and the ram has gravity on it's side...

I'm going to replace the IDE and maybe find new RAM and I'll hit you back

uh but... I'm starting to think that the future of this system looks grim

Fiziks

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January 17, 2006 18:59

stole my brother's RAM, he's pissed but at least I fixed the artifacts and clicking...

which makes sense...

AMAROK FEATURES: even though if you cared, you'd probably just navigate to the site anyways... but since we're here...

# Quick and simple drag and drop playlist creation

# Super eye-candy interface

# Multiple backends supported (GStreamer, xine, NMM, MAS and aRts)

# 10 band equalizer

# Automatic cover art download using Amazon services

# The unique and powerful Context Browser

# Automatic play-statistics generation (iRate style)

# Full lyrics download

# Funky visualisations from libvisual and XMMS

# Streaming from any KIO source

# Crossfading

# Podcasting Support

# Fully configurable translucent OSD for track changes

# K3B (CD-burning) integration

# KDE integration

# Style your Context Browser with custom CSS styles

# Save space in your Context Browser with collapsable boxes

# Show the Context Browser without amaroK open through the Konqueror sidebar!

# Full support for Last.FM! Share your music taste with friends on the net

# Generate dynamic playlists based on Audioscrobbler suggestions

# Support for SQLite and MySQL databases ensuring fast collection access

# Support for your iPod with the all new media-browser

# Powerful scripting interface, allowing for easy extension of amaroK

# Complete DCOP access

# Support for 35 languages

kaymastah

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January 17, 2006 22:11

wooopsie, sounds like you could use some new ram sticks... let the bro have his [ghmm] stick back ;p I suppose you would not like some of your hardware sabotaged in future [chuckles]

Fiziks

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January 17, 2006 22:15

:wink:

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