You can hear it in the valley where live the lame and the blind.

[reddragdiva]

KDE comes with six or seven music players. I've been sticking with AmaroK as it doesn't piss me off as much as the others. Mind you, just getting sound to work sensibly on Leegnux is shitting me big time. Everything seems to want a different combination of ALSA, aRTs, EsounD, OSS, JACK, gstreamer, etc., etc., ad nauseam. UBUNTU IS SUPPOSED TO JUST FUCKING WORK YOU USELESS STREAK OF PISS.

Is there some magical thing I'm not doing, or do I have to wait for three or so more generations of all-'l33t all-inclusive new sound systems designed to utterly supersede the previous ones but failing to quite do so or work with your previous apps before someone finally cracks it?

(I'm not after specific help, it's the fact that anyone would have to ask for specific help that's unacceptable for something that claims it'll have a technophobe-ready distro by April. It's stupid and annoying crap that just doesn't happen on a Mac or even on fucking Windows and that the developer has no business making the end user even have to think about. The sound situation is actually worse than how goddamn weird default KDE apps look in the default GNOME Ubuntu. I'm more interested in the general state of the arse of Linux sound and if a solution is in sight before the heat death of the universe.)

Update: mjg59 points out that, obviously, supported stuff is supported and therefore KDE isn't. BUT IT STILL SUCKS! And until Rosegarden has that little Ubuntu logo next to it ...

(Mind you, given the fucking around Rosegarden requires anyway, I can hardly believe they bothered making a Debian package available.)

Comments

[ickle-yuki.livejournal.com]

Oh and yes, buying a Mac is much less stress! saved me a lot of hair pulling getting this old G3.

Though I don't play music through it as even though it is a G3/400 with 512mb ram, it struggles just slightly to cope with that and firefox/thunderbird all at same time as is my normal usage pattern. So for now my Windows box just runs iTunes instead and sucks stuff from the network etc, which seems to work OK for now. Will likely switch to using mt-daapd when I can manage to upgrade the old p/pro filesever to have all music in one place so i can share all my music as an iTunes music share and just use a Mac/iTunes to listen to music with. Obviously the other part of the plan is to get a Mac laptop (ie iBook/Powerbook) and/or faster desktop Mac too.

[reddragdiva]

I'm surprised, actually - that's enough memory for even Mac OS X to run without significant thrashing, and Firefox/Thunderbird aren't that demanding. But iTunes can be a hog in weird ways at weird times. (snowspinner managed to get iTunes to completely shit itself importing 60GB of MP3s - that is, the size of his iPod - on a top-of-the-line dual G5, conclusively demonstrating that iTunes is teh suxx0r.)

[ickle-yuki.livejournal.com]

Yeh, OS X works fine mostly with just Firefox/Thunderbird running. But if I launch iTunes after a bit it starts to stutter etc a little, just on the edge of not coping is how it feels really. Of course it is dragging the mp3s off the network too, which probably doesn't help.