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Amarok vs VVAVE Music Player

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When comparing Amarok vs VVAVE Music Player, the Slant community recommends Amarok for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?” Amarok is ranked 23rd while VVAVE Music Player is ranked 47th. The most important reason people chose Amarok is:

Amarok contains the following features: Built-in equilizer Built-in lookup of songs and artists (Amarok will display Wikipedia articles or lyrics of songs that it can find.) Ability to add online playlists or streams, which is great for online radios such as soma or di.fm. Supported by Cinnamon Desktop media widget. Built-in iPod and iPhone support. Built-in MTP and USB support. Built-in music services for Ampache, gpodder.net, Jamendo, Last.fm, Magnatune, Amazine Music, MP3tunes, and podcasts. Amarok can configure, add, and import scripts.

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Pros

Pro
Loaded with features

Amarok contains the following features:
Built-in equilizer
Built-in lookup of songs and artists (Amarok will display Wikipedia articles or lyrics of songs that it can find.)
Ability to add online playlists or streams, which is great for online radios such as soma or di.fm.
Supported by Cinnamon Desktop media widget.
Built-in iPod and iPhone support.
Built-in MTP and USB support.
Built-in music services for Ampache, gpodder.net, Jamendo, Last.fm, Magnatune, Amazine Music, MP3tunes, and podcasts.
Amarok can configure, add, and import scripts.

Pro
Original design

The design of Amarok does not resemble most other music players. It's definitely in a class of its own.

Pro
Global keys to move from one song to another, rewind X seconds, advance X seconds, etc

The ability to assign global keys to move from one song to another, rewind X seconds, advance X seconds, etc. Other players do not have that feature.

Pro
Search in the playlist while seeing other songs

You can search for songs in the playlist... without adding a filter that prevents you from seeing the other songs. That way you can find e.g. the song that has been played before House of the Rising Sun. Using other players you can not search for songs in the playlist without hiding the songs that are not looked for.

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Open source (FOSS)

LGPL licensed.

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KDE/Qt-based

Looks great, uses known KDE/Qt controls and integrates with the KDE Plasma desktop (including KDE Connect, MPRIS Controls, KRunner and native notifications).

Pro
Convergent

Can be used across platforms on desktop (Linux), Android and Plasma Mobile (Kirigami-based).

Pro
Online streaming

You can use it to stream music. It also integrates youtube-dl. It can use your offline music to let you discover new online stream media.

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Cons

Con
UI is not the most intuitive

While the design of the UI is different to most other music players, the way it actually functions can feel foreign to many and result in a lot of confusion.

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Resource hog...

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No seamless transition between tracks when they're on different files.

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Doesn't feel very responsive

This is particularly the case with the play/pause button: it feels like there's a delay from when the button is pressed to when the music actually starts/stops.