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Strawberry Music Player Review: Great Amarok 1.4 Incarnation

Sweet Nostalgia I've been using Linux desktop as my main OS since 2007. There were sweet and fun memories about how I struggled to learn and use Linux Desktop as my daily system. I've tried several Linux distros, desktop environments and applications. One of my favorite application was called Amarok 1.4. It was a great music player with simple UI but came with the most complete UX you can find in a music player. Amarok 1.4 was a part of KDE sofware version 3.5.x. Unfortunately, when KDE turned to version 4.x branch, Amarok has been changed. Many Amarok fans includes me, are not really happy with the direction. We are still fond of that beautiful Amarok 1.4 and from that point, I switch to Audacious music player. Thankfully, there are kind hearted developers who finally forked Amarok 1.4 to a newer Qt4 application, called Clementine. It is a big news so that several distros include Clementine as their main music player (like OpenMandriva). Time goes on, now we are in the KDE Pla...