Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 98.228.222.154]
on December 12, 2008 01:47 AM
In fairness to the developers, I have to state up front that the following opinions are based solely on the screen shots, so I might not have the full picture.
To me, the three pane interface looks more cluttered while providing less useful information. As someone with a fairly old MP3 collection, my files were organized by directories and the tags were essentially ignored. I have been using Amarok 1.4 (and earlier) to organize my collection, and the amount of information in the 1.4 layout made it significantly easier to tag and otherwise clean up my files. If I can't setup a view like version 1.4, I'm afraid I won't be upgrading to 2.0.
For me, a more useful three pane layout would be one vertical pane on the left and two horizontal panes on the right, so that I can fit all the information about a file I want to see on a single line. This would also allow me to continue to display larger images of the album covers which at first glance seem impractical in version 2.0.
The older interface was the best of any application I have used in any category for any purpose. It was extremely well thought out (dare I say a work of genius), functional and attractive. While the new one *looks* good enough (except for the postage stamp sized album art), it appears to be far less functional for what I need. It actually reminds me of Rythmbox, which I originally dropped in favor of Amarok.
I hate being critical, because I really appreciate the effort that went into this. It sounds like many of the other "under the hood" features are dramatically improved. I just wish that the best user interface I have ever worked with had not been changed.
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Re: Amarok gets a facelift
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 98.228.222.154] on December 12, 2008 01:47 AMTo me, the three pane interface looks more cluttered while providing less useful information. As someone with a fairly old MP3 collection, my files were organized by directories and the tags were essentially ignored. I have been using Amarok 1.4 (and earlier) to organize my collection, and the amount of information in the 1.4 layout made it significantly easier to tag and otherwise clean up my files. If I can't setup a view like version 1.4, I'm afraid I won't be upgrading to 2.0.
For me, a more useful three pane layout would be one vertical pane on the left and two horizontal panes on the right, so that I can fit all the information about a file I want to see on a single line. This would also allow me to continue to display larger images of the album covers which at first glance seem impractical in version 2.0.
The older interface was the best of any application I have used in any category for any purpose. It was extremely well thought out (dare I say a work of genius), functional and attractive. While the new one *looks* good enough (except for the postage stamp sized album art), it appears to be far less functional for what I need. It actually reminds me of Rythmbox, which I originally dropped in favor of Amarok.
I hate being critical, because I really appreciate the effort that went into this. It sounds like many of the other "under the hood" features are dramatically improved. I just wish that the best user interface I have ever worked with had not been changed.
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