Saturday, February 10. 2007Amarok on MacBeen a while since I posted, but I thought I'd give you guys a glimpse of a (very ugly) Amarok running on a Mac. I used the excellent packages from Ranger Rick to get KDE4 libs up and running (you can do it from svn but many of the tools required are most easily gotten from Fink, which can cause conflicts if you have kde3 stuff from it). I can't get database support working yet, but it does build and run. Check it out:
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Hi,
Oh my god... That will be the greatest things since years. My favorite (and worlds best) music player on my favorite OS. I hope I can get rid off iTunes soon.  By the way. Are there any plans to integrate video-podcast support? Greets, Thomas
Hey Thomas, if you want a working copy of Amarok on OS X, you can compile one pretty easily from Fink. http://fink.sourceforge.net I did it last week and it'd been working splendidly so far.
Cheers!
Thomas, I hadn't heard anything about video support before (I've been out of it for a bit) but according to Mark Kretschmann here (http://lunapark6.com/?p=3032) it is possible that simple video playback will be supported for i.e. video podcasts. It may not be that hard, as Xine, Helix, etc. all support video codecs; the hardest part may be figuring out how to fit it into the interface (once we figure out the interface for 2.0 in the first place). However, our focus will remain on providing an excellent audio experience, and focusing too much on video would likely detract from this; for more advanced playback you'd probably want to use e.g. Kaffeine, KMPlayer, Totem, some Xine front-end or another, etc.
I don't want some fancy [insert your favorite unkown codec here] playback. Everything I would like to see some support for video podcast to sync them with my iPod. That is the only reason why I still have iTunes in the dock.
Greets and keep up your great work, Thomas
This sounds greeeeeat! Can't wait till it's up and running, I can't stand iTunes anymore (oh..sorry, I never could!), but since my transmission to Mac, there's not much of a choice out there. Keep up your work guys and good luck!
Wow, my only music player with my future OS (i will have a macbook in 5 days)
 :D :D
Good going!
Now go forth and kill iTunes! OSX doesn't need just a neat music player like iTunes - it needs a neat and useful music player like Amarok! Besides, what can iTunes really give people? DRM? Who needs DRM when Amarok can give us what really matters - more wolves! 
Sounds cool. Too bad I don't have a Mac yet, but have been looking into buying one.
I've just compared the latest QT based native binaries (http://ranger.users.finkproject.org/kde/index.php/Home) with an X11 Fink installation: The former works pretty well for kicker and konqueror but Amarokapp hangs repeatedly and heated my Macbook to over 80°c...
The Fink installation works great though - I created an applescript app to launch Kicker, and I've got all my KDE apps available Amarok works well too, apart from the music collection. I've read on the wiki that "The internal SQLite database which Amarok uses by default does not work on NFS. You must either link your ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok directory to a local drive, or use the MySQL support.". Could someone tell me if this could solve the problem, and if so, how to do it?Cheers
I look forward to this, can't wait to load up the greatest audio playing tool ever on my mac.
Did you ever get database support? I think I'm in the same spot as you mention above, where everything is up and running, but Amarok never builds its collection. I used the Ranger Rick packages to no avail. Any help is much appreciated! Can't wait to run a working amarok on the OSX side!
The ranger distribution was very unstable for me and it was impossible to get songs in it, so I kept to the Fink installation and it works great.
I also developped new trigger to control Amarok from the keyboard without having to focus X11. They also provide a working OSD for OSX. You might be interested: http://6v8.gamboni.org/Proxi-Controls-for-Amarok-on-OSX.html
It's just plain irresponsible to post software that doesn't do anything - people spend time & energy (not to mention over 2GB of hard drive space for this one installation) downloading and installing, because they think that at the very least, an mp3 player is going to be able to open or play mp3s!! Ranger Rick should not have posted these files until they were at least worth downloading. I don't like having my time wasted.
By the way, if someone ever wants to explain how to get a Fink installation of Amarok working in plain English, you'd be doing a favor to those of us who don't speak Computerese. I know how to use Fink, and I spent the 2 days (!!) waiting for it to compile Amarok, and you know what, it never worked, all it does is crash, crash, crash, crash, crash.
What's plain irresponsible is for you to install pre-alpha quality software and expect everything to be roses.
As for Amarok on Fink, works perfectly fine for me, and everyone else I know. It just has that annoying X11 dependency.
UPDATE: Do NOT install Ranger Rick's packages! Besides consuming over 2GB of disk space for an app that does not work, there is no way to uninstall this spacehog once you've installed it!! STAY FAR AWAY!
Umm.
1) At the time of writing, the app built and ran, which is all I ever said it did. I never said it worked correctly. 2) The 2GB of space is not for Amarok, it's for the various KDE packages, most of which you didn't actually need to install. 3) The lack of an uninstaller is Apple's fault. Complain to them about their shit-poor packaging system, not us. Even Windows lets you uninstall packages. |
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