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3 Linux Apps That Make Me Hate Windows
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| Finally, there's Amarok, which easily gets my vote as best music player. Not
| only does Amarok sport a boatload of excellent features, it also has an
| incredibly intuitive and easy-to-use interface. The main player's interface
| tabs provide a ton of information about your current artist and song
| including lyrics, related artists, suggested songs, Wikipedia's artist info,
| and the band's other albums. For those that prefer DIY management of your
| library, the tree-style collection view is a welcome addition, and provides
| an extremely easy way.
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| Amarok supports syncing to just about any MP3 player, even iPods (including
| podcasts, but not video, of course). Streaming radio integration is
| excellent, and it'll keep your Last.Fm profile up to date with the tracks
| you're currently playing.
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http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/3-linux-apps-that-make-me-hate-windows/
Amarok 2: a first look
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| With all the hoopla that has been surrounding KDE 4, I’d almost forget
| there’s another major piece of software working on a milestone release. Okay,
| maybe not as major as KDE, but Amarok is arguably the best and most popular
| media player on the linux desktop. KDE’s move from QT3 to QT4 pretty much
| forced all other independent QT applications to do the same, but obviously
| the Amarok developers didn’t want to stop at merely porting their media
| player.
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| [...]
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| Amarok 2 also expands on the Dynamic Playlist feature that is already present
| in the current stable release. In Amarok 1.4, it can populate your playlist
| with completely random songs, or add new ones that match the current playing
| one (as far as I can remember, it uses last.fm for that). The new Biased
| Playlists (link points to the developer’s blog) take the whole concept even
| further, and even works with propability percentages. For example, there can
| be a 50% chance that the next song is RnB, 30% that it’s Gothic Rock, and the
| remaining 20% that it’s a song by Dusty Springfield. Or maybe you want a mix
| of French songs with country music and songs that have “dawn” in the title.
| It’s all possible.
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http://celettu.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/amarok-2-a-first-look/
"I have mentioned before the "stacked panel". Panel discussions naturally favor
alliances of relatively weak partners - our usual opposition. For example,
an "unbiased" panel on OLE vs. OpenDoc would contain representatives of the
backers of OLE (Microsoft) and the backers of OpenDoc (Apple, IBM, Novell,
WordPerfect, OMG, etc.). Thus we find ourselves outnumbered in almost
every "naturally occurring" panel debate.
"A stacked panel, on the other hand, is like a stacked deck: it is packed with
people who, on the face of things, should be neutral, but who are in fact
strong supporters of our technology. The key to stacking a panel is being able
to choose the moderator. Most conference organizers allow the moderator to
select the panel, so if you can pick the moderator, you win. Since you can't
expect representatives of our competitors to speak on your behalf, you have to
get the moderator to agree to having only "independent ISVs" on the panel. No
one from Microsoft or any other formal backer of the competing technologies
would be allowed – just ISVs who have to use this stuff in the "real world."
Sounds marvelously independent doesn't it? In fact, it allows us to stack the
panel with ISVs that back our cause. Thus, the "independent" panel ends up
telling the audience that our technology beats the others hands down. Get the
press to cover this panel, and you've got a major win on your hands."
-- Source: Microsoft
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
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