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Amarok has been horrible since they redesigned it for version 2/ kde 4. Amarok 1.4 was the best music player I've seen and, I believe, one of the inspirations for foobar2000

foobar2000 was written by a former Winamp/Nullsoft contractor and the initial version was jokingly called "notepad" to emphasize functionality over skinning.

It's safe to say it has exactly nothing whatsoever to do with Amarok.

I agree. You should check out Clementine, a port of Amarok 1.4.

foobar2000 and Amarok both did their first public releases roughly at the same time (foobar2000 end of 2002, Amarok June 2003).

These days I just use mpd for playing music and icecast to stream it to wherever I want to listen to it.

Yes, I'm serious! Amarok works for me. I use it on Linux and on Windows. I do agree with unstable (but not "highly" unstable in my case). Unresponsive UI is something I encounter seldom.