Amarok 1.4 WAS by far the best music player I had ever seen. So many options, a great functional layout with nearly everything you wanted no more than a single click away… I did say was. My recent upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 automagically left me with Amarok 2. Not only was it not playing out of the box, I seem to have lost all ability to customize it or control it. They say it’s the future of media players. Of course they do because, it’s sure not the present. I haven’t seen a sequel this bad since Weekend at Bernie’s 2.
Okay, enough ranting. What’s the answer, Ron? Right now, I’m extremely impressed with Exaile. It has all the features I use the most and sounds great. It lacks a way to sync my mp3 player with it (at least I haven’t found one yet) but I can still drag and drop. There is a plug-in for Ipod, but I’m not using an Ipod so I am not sure how well that works. Feel free to leave your thoughts/comments/rants below.
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Note: Exaile needs a good cross-fader… and a way to control whether podcasts are downloaded automatically and how many are kept, how long, etc.
I agree Amarok 1.4 was amazing and my personal favorite too. Unfortunately they messed the 2.0 version very badly. I have been playing with Rythmbox which is mostly Python based and has some pretty good features. Still not the coolness of the older Amarok.