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Amarok
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Lost features users liked from version 1.4Unreviewed
20092026- Redesigned interface felt worse and harder to use than Amarok 1.42025-02-12
- Amarok 2.0 is buggy, slow, and lost features users liked in 1.42017-07-10
- Amarok 1.4 became too hard to use, so the commenter stopped listening to music locally2016-09-22
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 14 complaints
- Redesigned interface felt worse and harder to use than Amarok 1.42025-02-12
- Double-clicking a song with shuffle on starts a different random song2024-04-16
- Amarok 2.0 is buggy, slow, and lost features users liked in 1.42017-07-10
- Unresponsive, bloated interface with extremely poor usability2016-12-10
- Amarok 1.4 became too hard to use, so the commenter stopped listening to music locally2016-09-22
- Users abandoned the redesigned Amarok 2 UI and preferred the older version2016-04-21
- Some applications are confusing and overwhelming out of the box2014-05-14
- Music player has a terrible interface and is slow and hard to extend2014-04-22
- Big clunky default windows get in the way of simply playing music2011-01-17
- Interface is clunky and cluttered compared with older minimal music players2011-01-17
- Can't tell from the screenshot how to browse other artists' music or make a playlist2011-01-17
- Three-panel layout is confusing; picking music requires skipping the center panel and cluttered icons are unclear2011-01-17
- Random play shuffles the whole playlist instead of keeping sorted order2010-04-04
- Took hours to find music and crashed when playing a song2009-10-09