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		Lammy 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player 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‽‽

liotier 12 months ago | [–]

Right - how could I forget Amarok ? And I too was pushed to Clementine by Amarok 2.0

kstrauser 12 months ago | [–]

Ouch. I loved Amarok 1.x back in the day. That was... something.

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