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^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Oct. 30 2004, 07:57 I've been searching the forum for this topic, and I am surprised that this hasn't been posted before (I suppose my search abilities are not that strong). There's a music app called amaroK, designed for KDE (a unix desktop environment, used widely on Linux, xBSD and others) which supports some good features. Here is a screenshot of the app running on my computer and here is a link to the amarok official page. I've been using the app for 2 months (before I was a loyal XMMS user) and I am very satisfied by it. It has smart playlists (which contains your favorite tracks, for example), music archive that gathers all your music (even if you only have it available from CD), it takes track and album information from musicbrainz, and album covers from amazon on an automated way. The sound quality is superb (although it depends on external libs and not the app itself), the usability is ok and the eye candy is good as well. I'll recommend this to any unix user out there. Unafortunately there's no windows port of the app I am aware of, but on windows you already have Winamp which is a similar app with good capabilities. -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

Wayfarer Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: June 2002 Posted: Oct. 31 2004, 17:24 Hi there! Which Linux distribution ar you using? ;-) -- Wayfarer -------------- My homepage - www.thewayfarer.info My search - www.cannotbefound.com My community - www.taurusiv.net My luthier - www.artluthier.com Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Nov. 01 2004, 00:46 hi! I am running Microsoft Linux. .. .. Ok, that was actually a joke ;D. I use Gentoo Linux, running KDE 3.3.1. -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

Wayfarer Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: June 2002 Posted: Nov. 04 2004, 13:22 Ehm... Are you a woman? -- Wayfarer -------------- My homepage - www.thewayfarer.info My search - www.cannotbefound.com My community - www.taurusiv.net My luthier - www.artluthier.com Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 04 2004, 15:42 [deleted] -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Nov. 05 2004, 05:12 Let's not go there...the platform war thing is old and worn out. Suffice to say I use Macs and there's plenty available for them, and the OS being BSD based has led to a fairly thriving open source software community for the platform. I'd advise that we leave the discussion there, though. Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 05 2004, 08:05 OK -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 05 2004, 12:02 On the subject of TSODE. The multimedia track can be found as a video elsewhere on the web. I'm pretty sure there's a link to it on this forum However, I'd also like to be able to view it in a higher resolution and to properly play it. Some class acting from Mike, if the Moonlight Shadow video wasn't enough Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 05 2004, 16:32 I've heard of this multi-media track. However, I was told that the extra TSODE content was a game, not a multi-media track. At least Mike did not decide to make "Maestro" work only on obscure hardware. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 05 2004, 16:51 I would call it a multimedia presentation rather than a game (in the sense that MusicVR is). The game element involves entering the correct musical password in order to access three clips Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Nov. 15 2004, 12:07 Quote @wayfarer Ehm... Are you a woman? err... I am a gentoo linux user... what do U think? :P Quote @hiawatha ...but have been turned back by the fact that there is hardly any software. Are you kidding? Distros like SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora or Ubuntu have thousands of software packages, ready to install from your favorite package manager. No hassle looking for download them anywhere; chances are that the utility you're searching for is already on the package repositories of your linux distro. They cover almost any imaginable task doable with a computer, from biochemical research to a simple text editor, including multimedia apps (like amaroK), office productivity suites, web browsers, email clients, graphic editing, games... you can even play your fav windows games on linux if you want! If you wanna get started over linux, take a look to Ubuntu Linux: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ - Ubuntu is a powerful linux distribution made for desktop users and easy to administer. -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 15 2004, 13:04 Oops. I forgot that this was a live issue, after we were told not to engage in "platform wars". Lest this break out again, I have deleted the content of my previous posting. I'll send a private response. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Nov. 16 2004, 04:27 no platform wars here I use only Linux on my box, no windows fighting against it . Anyway, returning on topic... do you remember a previous app for windows (I am speaking about 1997 or so...) called Amarok, made initially to run the Amarok CD? it had a listing of all the 50+ tracks of the album, being able to jump to any of them. Later, its database growed to catch all MO discography till that moment... I remember it as a huge app on my old P200MMX machine, and very bloated; anyway it was fun. I had a copy of this ancient app somewhere, but God knows... does anybody have one to share with me if the app license permits it? -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Nov. 16 2004, 05:59 I answer to myself here's the app: http://baixaki.ig.com.br/site/dwnld3254.htm The download page claims that it is v1.05, although the app you download is v1.08. Just installed on the Win2k box I have here @ work and runs ok, though I dunno if I can use it with MP3 files... The homepage of the guy that programmed this is: http://hem.passagen.se/gweronimo//home.html although it seems that he does not host the app anymore. I have some memory about this URL... is the dude in this forum? -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

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