CDs in Amarok

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 15 February 2009 19:22:24 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Nicolas Lécureuil wrote:
> > what about KScd ?
>
> That app has been rewritten and has become horrible crap in 4.2. :-(
> * Uses ugly skins instead of a standard KDE GUI.
> * Lost all its options (e.g. analog playback etc.).
> * Uses MusicBrainz instead of FreeDB:
> - which is a step backwards because you can't submit your own data, as far
> as I know you need some proprietary MusicBrainz client to do that
> (MusicBrainz has 2 levels of fingerprinting, the one implemented in Free
> Software can be used for retrieval only),
> - which also means you cannot switch to another server, because the
> protocol is non-standard,
> - and they used the old deprecated libtunepimp stack which uses an old
> protocol which will be turned off on the servers soon! And the app doesn't
> even compile without those old libs.
>
> Basically, it has become completely worthless due to the crappy rewrite.
> The old Kscd was way better than the broken excuse for an app we have in
> 4.2.
>
> They sacrificed all the useful features for skins, and I hate skins, they
> make the app look completely out of place. And there's no way to revert to
> a standard GUI. So the app is completely useless.
>
> I'm seriously thinking of forking the version from 4.1 and either packaging
> it separately or patching the Fedora kdemultimedia to include the forked
> version instead of the broken useless crap upstream ships.
>
Now tell us how you really feel :-)  I'll take another look at it if you do 
decide to do that.

Anne
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