Re: KDE or Gnome media managers?

From: Scott Walde <scott_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Wed Apr 11 2007 - 07:13:03 CST

Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> I tried to get Amarok to import 10gb of music files into its
> collection (a fraction of the 50gb or so I have in my iTunes
> library). I'm doing this because I listen to music a lot while
> working at my laptop, but I rarely do it when I'm at home on my
> workstation. Amarok's response was to use up all my memory (~5gb,
> including swap) until the amarokprocessCollection item was killed as
> an out-of-control process on my machine. Perhaps I'm spoiled by
> iTunes, since it limits its memory use to a little under a gig :)
> What do you use on Linux to manage a decently coherent blob of
> music files (with ID3 tags, album art, and hopefully
> Audioscrobbler/LastFM capability)?
>
Amarok quite successfully manages my >100GB music collection. Do you
maybe have some other problem?

FWIW, my Amarok version is 1.4.3, my music partition is an NFS mount and
I use the default database settings. (SQLite)

ttyl
srw
Received on Wed Apr 11 07:13:08 2007

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