From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:27:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003031227.46989.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003012030.27972.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I
> > cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve
> > this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very
> > unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in
> > this time?
>
> Fuck knows what amarok-2x does for the first 5 minutes. I *think* On my
> system it scans the music directory, presumably to find updates that
> happened when amarok was not running. Fair enough, can't argue that,
> but why is it so *slow*???
Yes, it scans the collection, I just verified that by removing a folder
from my collection. Start-up takes 7 minutes, I guess this also slows down
my KDE4 start-up even further (strigi also scans some stuff for about a
minute, along this music files I did not touch in any way). So when I save
my KDE session I have to remember to quit amarok before that. Of course, I
also have to remember to start amarok some time after I logged in, so I
can play music when I want without having to wait 7 minutes first.
This does not feel right...
BTW, a find /data/mp3 -type d takes about a minute. Checking the date of
the directories to verify they did not alter since the last scan should
not take that much longer.
Ah, I see the problem. It mainly scans /data/mp3/incoming, a directory I
have NOT selected as collection folder (but most other directories in
/data/mp3 are selected). Still, those files do not show up in my
collection, which is fine - some time ago amarok did index all in
/data/mp3, even if a directory was not selected.
> Fuck also knows what the amarok devs are doing in general. I still
> can't find a way to move stuff to an mp3 player like the old 1.4
> version did. And the library thingamagij still doesn't always update
> tags, or put tag changes that it itself did into it's own database. It
> gladly accepts any changes you make in the Edit Tags dialog, and tries
> to write them, even if it knows it cannot do it (no support for that
> format, permissions, etc). Then, no warning or message about this.
Ah, this looks familiar, I ran into this, too.
> Depending on which bleeding edge latest-svn commit build you happen to
> get on any given day, this last might or might not tell you something
> in the status bar.
I'm always using the newest version that is not hard-masked. with every
new version, some things get better, but others get worse. This delays and
startup times are new to me, but on the other hand I did not get any file
corruption for a long time.
I do not like the new toolbar though. Where are the stop, forward and back
buttons? And for the volume control I have to move the mouse in a circle
around it... or use the scroll wheel, okay. Nah, I liked it better the way
it was before.
> For all the above reasons, and more, I have switched to clementine
> (it's in portage). It's a Qt port of amarok-1.4 and has equivalents of
> all the music- playing goodness that amarok used to have. It doesn't
> do tags, external players, wikipedia etc etc, it just plays music. And
> you have to tag your music by other means with eg kid3. I can live
> with that. At least it starts and stays up.
Nice! But not for me. I like the wikipedia stuff. And tagging, now that it
seems to work. And what amarok is supposed to become. Yes, I like it much
better than the old amarok, it's just that things do not already work
fine. So I will keep suffering, until some day amarok will not do all the
annoying stuff it currently does. The day will come! Hopefully long before
they start coding amarok-3 and all gets worse again. I'll just have to
wait. And wait.
Thanks anyway for the tip, at least I can use clementine when I see that
amarok is not running yet and did not do its 7 minutes of scanning
already.
Wonko
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Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-24 2:27 [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here! Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-24 2:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-24 3:38 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-24 5:41 ` ubiquitous1980
2010-02-24 13:33 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-25 0:10 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-25 2:07 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-25 13:03 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-01 16:08 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-01 18:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 19:07 ` Dale
2010-03-01 19:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 20:26 ` Dale
2010-03-01 20:28 ` Mick
2010-03-01 21:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 23:17 ` Mick
2010-03-01 23:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 15:48 ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-03 16:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 11:27 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2010-03-03 16:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:30 ` stosss
2010-03-03 20:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:32 ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-03 19:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:54 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-04 14:12 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-09 20:12 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-09 21:07 ` Philip Webb
2010-03-11 9:25 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-12 1:59 ` Philip Webb
2010-03-12 6:59 ` Mick
2010-03-12 10:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-12 15:32 ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-13 11:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-09 21:52 ` Dale
2010-03-11 14:22 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-11 20:14 ` Dale
2010-03-12 9:27 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-09 22:20 ` Mick
2010-06-16 23:23 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-17 13:31 ` Mick
2010-06-19 19:03 ` Alex Schuster
2010-04-22 14:58 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-01 20:34 ` Mick
2010-03-03 16:13 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-24 13:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 13:41 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-02-24 14:12 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 14:23 ` Christian Schulze
2010-02-24 16:03 ` Dale
2010-02-24 16:17 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 16:47 ` Dale
2010-02-24 16:58 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 14:28 ` Crístian Viana
2010-02-24 14:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 15:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-24 16:43 ` Mike Edenfield
2010-02-24 16:52 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-25 20:55 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-24 16:59 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 17:08 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-24 17:53 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 17:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-24 18:31 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 18:12 ` Mike Edenfield
2010-02-24 18:32 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 21:25 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-02-25 4:17 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-25 4:22 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-25 9:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-25 19:45 ` Dale
2010-02-25 20:59 ` Frank Steinmetzger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-19 20:23 [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster
2010-06-20 15:52 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-06-28 22:50 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-28 23:16 Mateusz Mierzwiński
2010-06-29 14:23 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-29 14:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-06-29 22:40 ` Mick
2010-06-29 23:16 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-29 23:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-06-30 6:23 ` Mick
2010-06-30 9:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-06-30 10:17 ` Mick
2010-06-30 10:35 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-06-30 0:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-06-30 10:46 ` Alex Schuster
2010-07-04 19:57 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-29 15:45 Mateusz Mierzwiński
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[not found] ` <f0JZ1-4aw-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-06-29 15:50 ` David W Noon
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