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  • Make the large news sites cover new releases of amaroK/the live cd:
German
English
Swedish


  • Approach online vendor companies such as [1] to sell cds. --sebr
e-mail sent to elx, will contact a few others soon Hydrogen 21:58, 27 Sep 2005 (EDT)
Xijio maybe there could be mass mailings of amarok livecds, or distributions at open source conferences and the like. I believe once people see what amarok has to offer first hand they'll be hooked.
Apachelogger who are the receivers of the mails? :/


  • Provide Cd's to local computer shops to display. Would companies like bestbuy/circuit city/etc be intrested in it also perhaps? Hydrogen 15:47, 27 Sep 2005 (EDT)
  • Find out cost to get cd's mastered professionally, is it way too much? Hydrogen 15:47, 27 Sep 2005 (EDT)
Yes, its way too much.. $780 for 1000 cd's was best I found... No thanks! Hydrogen 21:26, 27 Sep 2005 (EDT)
  • Maybe some pc magazines would be interested to deliver the live cd with them? --Sven423 05:01, 9 Sep 2005 (EDT)
I'll talk to the german Linux-User I think it would be no problem to get them use it.--Apachelogger 06:51, 9 Sep 2005 (EDT)
What's the status of this? As we only have an English live cd we maybe need to create a German version for them? --Sven423 04:36, 26 Sep 2005 (EDT)
No anwser so far, I'll ask again after the offical release of 1.3. Well, making a german version wouldn't be that much work, just remastering with german l10n.--Apachelogger 07:34, 26 Sep 2005 (EDT)
  • sebr I would like to see perhaps flash videos of amaroK in action, with audio and all!
Well, we could make some with vnc2swf, has anyone experience with it? --Apachelogger 10:16, 1 May 2005 (EDT)
  • Ask madpenguin.org to do a review of amaroK Live 1.3. They seem to be big amaroK fans, as evidenced in this article:

http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5145&page=1

Email sent! Hydrogen 22:10, 27 Sep 2005 (EDT)
  • Setup nightly builds with Klik. Pipitas gave us the steps to do so. --Eean 15:16, 30 October 2005 (EST)
  • As part of it I imagine screenshot tours, like the one on OSDir.com.



More 1.3 Live downloads than 1.2...

Currently we are at ~15k downloads, the 1.2 version had 25k. We will reach that number shortly... what about another press release? --Sven423 07:41, 5 Oct 2005 (EDT)

we havn't got the release news on /. maybe such an article has the ability to take it :/ --Apachelogger 01:53, 6 Oct 2005 (EDT)

Limited audience

It seems to me that such a promotion is bound to strike a major leadwall. The fact that people need Linux to use amaroK. It just doesn't sound right to say something like: amaroK is a revolutionary media player with blah blah blah and you can even test it on our livecd blah. But...umm...you need Linux or Unix

The spreadfirefox campaign can cater to everyone, and even compare it with IE on major points, whereas amaroK's only opponent at the time is XMMs and maybe juk and most linux user do not even need convincing to start using amaroK once they see it.

I am guessing however, that this is in preparation for the future porting of KDE to windows. In that case having the promotional stuff ready before hand can't help. I will try to do what I can --Db0 05:12, 18 Aug 2005 (EDT)

well, windows user should go to the next street and do suicide ... I know that's not very nice, but I wanted to point out that windows users aren't our audience and hopefully they'll never be the main audience. amaroK can't be compared on major points with other players, as there is nothing to compare: no player out there has a equal playlist search thing, a equal playlist management, a wikipedia integration, a dynamic mode, a collection (as well as the sorting system for it), such a smart coverfetching thing ..... and the most important point no player out there has equal smart, nice and intelligent developers. So what do you want to compare with? WMP? WinAmp? RealPlayer? ... there is no player you can compare with, you only can say "we have this and this and this and this, that player doesn't have it" ... this is not promotion, this is just an aggressive featurelist (MS-Style). -- There are still lots of xmms users out there and they probably know about amaroK but they don't know why they should use it. So we have to tell them the good and the bad thing, and then they can decide. I've seen gnomes which switched to kde for having a better look'n'feel in amaroK, and I've seen gnomes which havn't used amaroK coz they don't wanted to install qt+kdelibs, so you can say "hey gnome you can download the livecd for trying it , if you like it you can install it on your system, if not just delete the image". -- On the mainpage of the site we say "amaroK is a music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface." so will this be changed if there is a windows port? Do we code it for windows then? Well, no. Somebody probably will port it, PORT, not code, PORT, and this maybe won't work well. So would we do promotion for a maybe not very well working application which isn't coded for this operating system and also not ported by the original authors? I think -> NO I know, very confusing, so let me sum-up: We wouldn't support/promot the windows port, coz we can't do it, as it isn't coded by us .. there are still xmms users out there which have to switch .. we won't promote with spreadamaroK for windows user and linux users etc. we want promot our player and OUR player (not a probably made port) needs linux/unix that's it ... or should we do no promotion coz we're geeks which are using linux and coding on it, coz we know that it's better? --Apachelogger 08:20, 18 Aug 2005 (EDT)
well, if amaroK can get Gnome-users to switch to KDE, having a fully functional liveCD can't hurt for demonstrating it to Windows users. Also, in terms of comparison, how does iTunes rank in comparison? From what I understand, it'd probably the main "competition" in terms of features. (ignoring the whole OSX-and-windows vs. *nix/X11 issue) --Dhraakellian 14:09, 4 Sep 2005 (EDT)
This liveCD is also designed for people coming from windows, everything on it is designed around ease of use, and ease of later install. One of our targeted audiences is people coming from windows, and to allow them to see how smooth and easy to use linux is these days. Hydrogen 10:08, 24 Sep 2005 (EDT)
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