DRM hell is not made up! (1 Viewer)

[Martin]

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34523

Learn to love Windows Media Player, it sure as hell loves you! Here's my favorite passage from the text.

But it gets worse. If you rip your own CDs, WiMP11 will take your rights away too. If the 'Copy protect music' option is turned on, well, I can't top their 1984 wording. "If the file is a song you ripped from a CD with the Copy protect music option turned on, you might be able to restore your usage rights by playing the file. You will be prompted to connect to a Microsoft Web page that explains how to restore your rights a limited number of times." This says to me it will keep track of your ripping externally, and remove your rights whether or not you ask it to. Can you think of a reason you would need to connect to MS for permission to play the songs you ripped from you own CDs?

 

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[Cronios]

To help the linux community grow bigger??

In the new era the american projects wont negociate with terrorism/piracy

 

[mikhail]

FFS.

Hear about the Zune? It won't work with older windows DRM!! What a farce.

 

[JCK]

I am getting fed up of Winamp as well, does anyone reccomend a player under Windows?

 

[mikhail]

Martin's a big fan of Mplayer.

 

[JCK]

I want a music player only. I stopped liking Winamp because it started to support video.

I know Mplayer, I use it on Linux

 

[Martin]

mplayer is no fun for music. Perhaps one fine day the windows people will have a choice of amarok, the greatest player there is.

 

[V]

mplayer is no fun for music. Perhaps one fine day the windows people will have a choice of amarok, the greatest player there is.

...out of players that take 35 seconds to open.

 

[gray]

Jeeks, why did you stop liking Winamp because it started supporting video? It's not like you're forced to view the visualisation of the music you're listening to. Isn't it your choice whether the video compatibility affects you or not?

 

[Martin]

...out of players that take 35 seconds to open.

4 seconds here, do you have a Pentium?

 

[JCK]

Jeeks, why did you stop liking Winamp because it started supporting video? It's not like you're forced to view the visualisation of the music you're listening to. Isn't it your choice whether the video compatibility affects you or not?

Well it is a matter of timing I am sure everyone liked Winamp for its simplicity, but at the time when they added video support, the player has become over-done. It feels they try too hard to make it super. It still is the best on a Windows platform but it is too much now. Another very annoying thing about it is the constant update releases. There is a new version like every hour.

I agree with Martin, AmaroK is the best music player that ever existed :toast:

Maybe Martin can modify it so it will work on Windows

 

[Cronios]

...out of players that take 35 seconds to open.

Like the WMP 11 BETA ?

 

[V]

4 seconds here, do you have a Pentium?

amd 64 athlon. didn't time it but it's definetly over 4 seconds. 35 was an overestimate.

Like the WMP 11 BETA ?

starts up in a second on my pc.



about winamp, i agree with jeeks. winamp was killed with all the added options during the years. the startuop time became awfull. there is a quite simple solution though, just install the lite version and you have your good old snappy winamp back.

 

[Martin]

amd 64 athlon. didn't time it but it's definetly over 4 seconds. 35 was an overestimate.

So stop running FM with 28 leagues in wine while you start it

 

[V]

So stop running FM with 28 leagues in wine while you start it

ok...good point.

 

[V]

So stop running FM with 28 leagues in wine while you start it

just booted ubuntu and i started amarok and timed it. it took aproximatelly 16 seconds for it to start on a 3500 amd, 1gb ram. that is awfully long for a music player, wouldn't you agree?

after one start of amarok, next time i start it takes a lot less to opne, about 4,5 secodns.

 

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just booted ubuntu and i started amarok and timed it. it took aproximatelly 16 seconds for it to start on a 3500 amd, 1gb ram. that is awfully long for a music player, wouldn't you agree?

after one start of amarok, next time i start it takes a lot less to opne, about 4,5 secodns.

you on Gnome or KDE?

 

[V]

you on Gnome or KDE?

gnome. i found kde to be more buggy in ubuntu.

 

[/usr/bin]

gnome. i found kde to be more buggy in ubuntu.

Well, there's your problem. Running on gnome means that you'd have to process through a hell of a lot of kdelibs if you wanna open up any kde application (my assumption, btw, don't take it as 100% truth )..

 

[JCK]

Naw, do you use KDE?