Amarok 3.0 released

lorebett · May 31, 2024, 12:19pm

As for me, I never stopped using Amarok

r0ckhopper · May 31, 2024, 2:20pm

I like my music players to be full fat, not skimmed

anon17373693 · May 31, 2024, 3:51pm

And I like my music full fat

Ben · June 1, 2024, 6:17am

I had a revelation with Strawberry when I was using a separate application for Radio… something like GRadio and then having a look at pyradio in terminal which generates a config file.

Then I realised that there’s not much difference between the config file and a playlist…

So I wrote an .m3u

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,BBC HLS AAC -  Radio 4 Extra
http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio_four_extra/bbc_radio_four_extra.isml/bbc_radio_four_extra-audio=320000.m3u8

#EXTINF:0,UK eAAC+ 48k -  Best 70s
https://c4.auracast.net/radio/8040/radio.mp3

#EXTINF:0,AAC 48k -  Times Radio
http://timesradio.wireless.radio/stream-mobile?ref=rf

#EXTINF:0,BBC AAC 48 -  ClassicFM M Relax
http://media-the.musicradio.com/ClassicFM-M-Relax

This works better than any Radio app, despite them using radio-browser, I failed to discover some specific stations which I could locate via the browser interface!!!

And so, if you are going to search, use the browser.
If you’re going to browse, then just do an internet search.
But if you’re going to listen, just open your playlist as a tab in strawberry - the RADIO tab.

Strawberry will also pull in the lyrics for tunes playing on the radio.

So yes, I can’t see (given the LONG list of failures) the benefits of settling for second rate software trying to include every feature that they can think of, when you get a far more reliable and efficient workflow another way.

The playlist can be opened in almost every media player I can think of.

I hope that Fooyin will allow ‘features’ to be added as plugins, and not become bloated by default… this was always my issue with Amarok with it’s rather awkward interface.