tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10976420247206790792011-04-21T19:13:25.474-07:00razorxpressnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097642024720679079.post-67764748492330026902008-12-03T21:16:00.000-08:002008-12-03T21:17:22.471-08:00Good Features<br />-------------<br /><br />1. Smart Playlist (Dynamic, Smart, Radio Stream)<br />2. Podcast (bbc, lugradio etc)<br />3. Playing Behaviour (Collect Statistics e.g Favourite Tracks, Most Played Tracks, Favourite Artists, Favourite Genres etc)<br />4. Script Manager (Add many behaviours , and as you may have guessed as in KDE more scripts can be brought from web in just one click)<br />5. Cover Manager (Easily copy cover to media players. Fetch Missing Covers from Amazon)<br />6. Support radios (lastfm, shoutcast)<br />7. Queue Manager (How many times to play, when to play). (Can experiment with the playback, similar as Statistics on point 3)<br />8. Burn to cd using k3b<br />9. Cool File Browser<br />10. Listen and buy music from Magnitude<br />11. Connect music players<br />12. Lyrics of songs, artist information from wikipedia<br />13. Track suggestion<br />14. Remove duplicate and dead entries<br />15. Equaliser<br />16. Support scores and ratings of songs<br />17. Many downloadable styles(themes) <br />18. Smart On Screen Display (if you like)<br />19. Support different back end engines (xine, gstreamer)<br />20. Support different audio drivers (pulseaudio, alsa, oss)<br />21. Support for proxy server with login<br />22. Support for different back end database for storing different info (sqlite is default)<br />23. Watch music folders for changes<br />24. Suggest lyrics on web if does not find on the plugin(which can be changed from script manager), for that support available browsers<br />25. Global shortcuts (Control songs playback from what ever work you are doing, even if your monitor is turned off. e.g Win+X = Play, Win+V = Stop, Win+C = Play/Pause, Win+B = Next Track)<br />26. Only concentrates on audio playback (for video playback scripts may be added to play on other players e.g kmplayer)<br />27. Play audio cd<br />28. Redo/undo your previous selection (remembers playing history)<br /><br />Bad Features<br />------------<br />1. Does not advertise about it's features (some other players sell themselves by advertising some of above features)<br />2. Not native to Gnome (One of first things Gnome Users install when they install the OS is amarok)<br />3. Very addictive (if you don't like current song, you keep on pressing Win+B), and keep on reading lyrics.<br /><br />Wish-list<br />--------<br />1. Equaliser should get more realistic<br />2. last.fm like station search on the basis of tag and artist<br />3. Web browsing should be enabled with flash support (play youtube videos), since video support should come in new release<br />4. Seek bar should be as long as width of the player or smart enough then the current version<br />5. Make me a cup of coffee (I can't think anything more. I think if these features are added amarok will continue the open source culture (if development stops the project is dead, something else will overtake you)<br />6. Radio bandwidth selection (e.g 64k)<br /><br /><div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'><br /><br /><script type='text/javascript'><br /><br />digg_url=&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;;<br /><br /></script><br /><br /><script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'></script><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p><data:post.body/></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1097642024720679079-6776474849233002690?l=amarokrocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>razorxpressnoreply@blogger.com0