More geek features are added to the program. Development moves on with no unified focus.
2) $BASIC_FEATURE will be included at some point in the future. Geeks point out that 1) users don't really want $BASIC_FEATURE, and they should instead use $GEEKY_SUBSTITUTE. Normal users point out that it doesn't yet provide $BASIC_FEATURE.and CNet publish headlines like "$SOFTWARE killer?" We brag about how it's awesome for allowing us to do $GEEKY_FEATURE.
Open source competitor arrives to challenge closed-source market leading freeware.This is becoming a (disheartening) pattern: Unfortunately, it does so at the cost of many features that a large potion of the potential user base cares about, such as syncing with music players, maintaining a reasonable memory footprint, keeping the UI light and responsive, and improving the speed and ease with which people can manage their music libraries. It offers a bunch of cool toy features, many of which will likely make a small portion of the user base absolutely delighted (things like concert ticket listings, for example). It'd be cool to see it succeed, but it's basically trying too hard to be a jack-of-all-trades. Īnd you know, nearly three years later, my opinions on it remain. Hopefully these players will gain traction among OS X users, which will finally force Apple to either step up in terms of features or open up iTunes for extensions."Īh. So we can expect a reasonably stable Amarok to hit OS X in a few months' time. Amarok developer Leo Franchi has been able to run a Amarok on OS X natively. It has support for extensions and themes ('feathers' in Songbird parlance).Īmarok: The undisputed champion among Linux music players is finally coming to OS X, thanks to KDE 4 being ported there. The team behind Songbird has members who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo Music Engine. Songbird: An open source music player which has been in the works for more than 2 years has finally released its 1.0 Release Candidate builds. Not one, but two music players have become credible contenders. Despite the many faults, many of us continued to use iTunes because of the lack of options available. A feature as basic as monitoring a folder and adding the latest music files to the library is unavailable in iTunes. Though the UI is simple and good like most Apple products, it has lagged in features compared to music players available on Linux and Windows.
Mallumax writes "The truth is, iTunes is an average music player.
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