Comments on: Professional articles, not opinions

By: Rick James

Rick James — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:10:57 +0000

Translation: Shit, I hate that we have umpteen players that all sortof work, but don’t completely work and completely confuse everybody with broken backends and every other sort of idiocy. Or in other words, why can’t we just cooperate on the “right thing”.

Just more evidence of the failure of desktop linux. It’s 2006, and some people still don’t get it.

By: Ian Monroe

Ian Monroe — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:30:35 +0000

So I just read the review, and then the comments.

The comments are pretty funny. Seb is certainly not alone.

By: Ian Monroe

Ian Monroe — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:32:34 +0000

Lazy reviews are especially a problem with distros. The reviewer installs the distro, and maybe pokes at it for an hour or two at the most. So basically its a review of the distros installer, as oppposed to the overall polish.

By: Luke Parry

Luke Parry — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:33:59 +0000

Well for one thing it is missing a really important cross platform player, that is very similar, i mean looks nearly the same called Songbird… http://www.songbirdnest.com/

tried it out and is very good, but for me to give out reviews and it is hardly conclusive to explaining with any detail at all. If it was me, I would cover, maybe 3 or four on a weekly basis and then pick the best for each group.

ANother point is that music players are for everyone and not for a particlur group, somethings may not have features, but it may be ultra easy to use it compared to the rest, and maybe having a score would make it more compartive.

this though does raise a point about reviews!

By: jaykayess

jaykayess — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:28:55 +0000

I don’t disagree with you, but I think it’s a problem that we have sixteen different audio players for Linux and none of them has all the features of say, iTunes. Amarok is getting close, though.

By: superstoned

superstoned — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:16:37 +0000

and, to add to seb’s argument, it is definately not THAT easy to get a well-working setup. but that’s a problem of linux in general, and patents to be more specific. nothing to do with any player at all…

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:36:19 +0000

We shouldn’t forget that this applies to all of those “reviews”. amaroK was not the only short-changed application to be shunned by a poor testing setup.

By: Massimiliano Torromeo

Massimiliano Torromeo — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:34:07 +0000

This is exactly what I tought of when I read the article. Amarok passes all the tests on my system…

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:30:51 +0000

Another reason why peer-reviewed news systems, such as digg.com rock our world.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:29:30 +0000

Absolutely agree with the main opinion that most “review” articles just aren’t professional enough. Most sites that post that kind of article should have some rating system that the readers can use to quickly mark the article as “crap” or even take it out of the front page.