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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by liotier on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:36AM (#43026392)
> Strawberry is better for me but still kind of janky

Strawberry isn't the most solid program (a few times a year, its search hiccups and gets stuck for a few seconds), but it carries the torch of Clementine's UX - which is my ideal music listening experience.

Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by Lammy on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:06PM (#43027950)
Which itself carried the torch of Amarok 1.x's UX. No software rewrite, not even GNOME2→GNOME3, ever hurt me as much as Amarok 1.4 → 2.0

Compare Amarok 1.4: https://amarok.kde.org/files/amarok14/shot7.png

To Amarok 2.0 alpha 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20110820190636/http://blog.lydia...

It was so widely disappointing that the “Amarok 2.0 FAQ” had an entry for “IMO Amarok 2.0 looks terrible” even though that's not a question lol https://web.archive.org/web/20090208231357/http://amarok.kde...

Luckily the Clementine project came along to deliver a straight port of Amazon 1.4 from Qt3 to Qt4 which was all 99% of people really wanted.

*James Rolfe voice* What were they thinking‽‽

Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by kstrauser on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:35PM (#43028899)
Ouch. I loved Amarok 1.x back in the day. That was... something.
Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by liotier on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @04:46PM (#43030084)
Right - how could I forget Amarok ? And I too was pushed to Clementine by Amarok 2.0