thelevellers wrote:My issue is that the middle screen has been filled with useless rubbish! I hate album art, and 'now playing' info, they are useless and entirely annoying.

I totally disagree with this!  I have all my music collection on my PC. I never use a seperate CD player and so almost never actually play a CD.  The album art (and the now playing info) serves to link the track to the CD.  Without you might as well be listening to the radio. 

Personally I would like to see more done with the album art.  For example make it bigger

In the SVN you got rid of different views for the center window. It is difficult to get all the features I want, especially now that devices are no longer a tab.

Amarok 1.5??
Aaaah Spammer!

Dieter Schroeder wrote:Amarok 1.5??
Aaaah Spammer!

Removed, both of them

There is absolutely no reason to choose Amarok 2 yet. Stick with 1.4!

44Ronin wrote:There is absolutely no reason to choose Amarok 2 yet. Stick with 1.4!

Oh, I don't know...

Superior (and actually working) last.fm support, Jamendo support, support for my Magnatune.com membership, direct integration with my Ampache server, a much more flexible playlist for most use cases, a ton of nice scripted services (I love the librivox script!), an immensely powerful interface for extending Amarok using qtscript (with lots of cool scripts already showing up) all seem like good reasons to me

And that is of course without mentioning the cool features that are already in trunk for 2.2 (check the blogs for some of these)

For some people, 1.4.x might still be the better choice, but at least for me, Amarok 2 blows Amarok 1 out of the water.