aMarok 1.4 Fast-Forward is Simply Great

The amaroK team have announced the official release of amaroK 1.4, and the launch of the Fast Forward series, the cheeky successor to the well-received Airborne series. Fast Forward comes with improved media device support, featuring enhanced iPod support that handles the latest iPod devices, support for IFP/IRiver devices, a new plugin for generic media devices, and the ability to handle as many of these devices as you'd like.
Releasepic_1.4 aMarok 1.4 Fast-Forward is Simply Great Changes to the way song lyrics are fetched mean you're now able to write scripts for your favorite lyrics site. The collection scanner has moved to its own process, keeping amaroK more responsive and stable.

One of the most requested features, user-chosen song ratings, has made it into amaroK 1.4 Fast Forward as a complement to the automated score system, allowing you to set a song's quality from 1 to 5 points, as well as the ability to use these ratings when creating smart playlists.

Rediscover more of your music! amaroK now has tag support for Ogg, MP3, MP4/AAC, FLAC and Real Media, allowing all these music formats to be added to your collection.

Check out all the new features in the What's new in Fast Forward guide and get futher information about this new amaroK release at amarok.kde.org. -kde news

The latest version for SUSE is also available from Guru's repository. I always preferred to use Xine as playback engine. But here is a question - a lot of people say that Gstreamer is a better option, though when it comes to video Gstreamer sucks (at least for now), and SUSE now supplies Helix engine as well. So here is a question: to stick with Xine as playback engine for aMarok or to switch to Gstreamer or Helix and why?

Did I mention that this is my favourite music manager application, and I won't be wrong if I say it is the best … on any platform.

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Comment by Another Know-It-All on May 21, 2006

Gstreamer has more modular future-proof architecture, but the plugins concerning liscenced stuff need more work. If all you use is open formats gstreamer is the best option. WMA on the other hand play like crap on gstreamer, and video’s well … i’m not even gonna get started on that.

Personally i use gstreamer for audio and mplayer for video’s and whatever i just click to play. Then again I use rhythmbox .. amarok is ehm a little bloated .. besides i use gnome .. i like integration and i hate skinnable apps. But Amarok feature-wise is the shit.. hopefully someday Listen will be stable and complete. The gnome alternative to amarok. (Rhythmbox really is not) ..

On KDE i would be using Amarok though .. it integrates so nicely with the universal sidebar thingie..

Comment by E@zyVG on May 21, 2006

The new “star” rating for songs is just what I wanted. I haven’t yet checked it out, but I was wondering if there is option to show all 5 star rated song, 4 stars and so on. That would be cool.

And as I said above, this is the best music organizer with integrated player and tonnes of features can be added via plugins. I personally don’t find it bloated at all.