Downgrading Amarok

[aerogate]

Hi there,

Mandriva 2009.1 comes with Amarok 2, it`s still a beta and is missing functions I need, can anyone advice how to downgrade to Amarok 1.4 plz?

 

Mike

[scarecrow]

You will need kdelibs3 and qt3 (both should be available), plus downgrading a couple of libraries. The latter could be a serious issue.

My recommendation:

1. Use another music manager. Songbird is very buggy and eating too much RAM, Banshee is even buggier and very sluggish (typically for a Mono app), but Quodlibet, Exaile and Rhythmbox ain't bad at all. Even better is the new (0.6.X series) Listen, which is GTK, but with rather few GNOME dependencies. And finally, the best music manager for windoze ( Foobar2000 ) works very, very well under WINE.

2. Use Amarok 2, and wait for improvements. Already Amarok 2.1 is more than usable.

[aerogate]

Thanks Scarecrow, with your help I came to the choice of waiting for Amarok 2 to develop.

[aerogate]

Yeah so following the development of Amarok will be interesting, and they have a nice forum.

Added repo main/testing as it carries latest version of Amarok, so easy too.

 

Mike

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Finally it's in a usable state again. 2.1.1 is a pleasure to use. I still miss some of the functions in the 1.x series though :(