On Wednesday 16 November 2005 10:05 am, Preston Hagar wrote:
> Although amarok is probably my favorite audio player, I have found it to be
> a little finicky. I usually find it works best with xine. I usually use a
> "-arts -gstreamer xine" so xine is the only engine available. I also
> usually have a "-mysql -postgres" because it seems silly to me to have a
> database running to listen to music. If you disable both of those, it just
> uses sqlite. I have also use "-opengl" becase at one time (they probably
> have fixed it by now, but I haven't checked) there was an issue with
> amarok, opengl, and nvidia cards. I don't use/watch any of the
> visualizations anyway so I have never seen the point. I make sure to add in
> "musicbrainz" since that is a nice service. So to sum up, my use flags are
> generally: "-arts -gstreamer xine -mysql -postgres -opengl musicbrainz" I
> know it isn't a direct solution to your problem, I just thought I would
> share my
> experiences.
I use arts mysql opengl here and it runs fine.. Must be something else..
The database is cool for dynamic mode.. I can create my own smartlist's.. I
dont know how I listened to music without it before.. Its awesome..
Jeff
Yes, it must... I'm using these:
media-sound/amarok-1.3.6 [1.2.4] +arts -debug -flac -gstreamer +kde -kdeenablefinal +mp3 +musicbrainz -mysql -noamazon +opengl -postgres -visualization +vorbis +xine -xinerama +xmms
Fernando
