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Amarok

Let me just be the 57th person to blog that I like Amarok. A lot. Best audio player ever, and like many Linux users I've tried a lot. XMMS, BMP, MPD + lots of clients, Rhythmbox, Quod Libet, Banshee, some others I'm probably forgetting. Clearly Amarok is better than Winamp (especially modern-day Winamp). And I like Foobar2000, but I think Amarok beats that too. Automatic lyric fetching and album cover art downloading is the greatest thing ever. Among other things.

I have no problem with the addition of Magnatune. My concern is: if Magnatune disappeared tomorrow, would Amarok still exist, and would Amarok still work? I can see no reason why the answer would be anything other than "Yes", so who cares? And as per their motto, I do think Magnatune looks like the least evil music store I've seen. It's a worthy goal to promote it. I haven't found much music on there that I like, yet, but I'll keep looking.

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4 Responses to “Amarok”

  1. November 2nd, 2006 at 9:05 pm
    Quoth Yams:

    Can it play .mpc lossless audio? XMMS/BMP can. :)

  2. November 3rd, 2006 at 12:26 am
    Quoth Brian:

    Possibly. It uses xine as its backend.

  3. November 3rd, 2006 at 3:32 am
    Quoth John Buckman of Magnatune:

    I do think Magnatune looks like the least evil music store I’ve seen. It’s a worthy goal to promote it. I haven’t found much music on there that I like, yet, but I’ll keep looking.

    What kind of music are you into? Maybe I can recommend something…

    -john

  4. November 3rd, 2006 at 10:28 am
    Quoth Brian:

    Metal mostly. German metal in particular. I did find some Celtic music on Magnatune that I liked.

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