{"id":1243,"date":"2008-12-25T23:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T04:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2008-12-25T23:10:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T04:10:43","slug":"amarok-20-uses-mysql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/25\/amarok-20-uses-mysql","title":{"rendered":"Amarok 2.0 uses MySQL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been more of a GNOME guy, and when running Linux, I use Rhythmbox to play my music. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/amarok.kde.org\/\">Amarok<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/amarok.kde.org\/en\/releases\/2.0\">2.0<\/a> might just change that.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve chosen their database &#8211; it is none other than MySQL. The release notes state:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSome features, such as the player window or support for databases other than MySQL, have been removed because either they posed insurmountable programming problems, or they didn&#8217;t fit our design decisions about how to distinguish Amarok in a saturated market of music players.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to know why the decision was made, read <a href=\"http:\/\/amarok.kde.org\/blog\/archives\/812-MySQL-in-Amarok-2-The-Reality.html\">MySQL in Amarok 2 &#8211; The Reality<\/a>. It has a lot to do with the fact that MySQL can be embedded, and performs well. Its a generally useful read to see why SQLite and PostgreSQL was not chosen.<\/p>\n<p>MySQL&#8230; powering the music of today!<br \/>\n(wonder as I may, if we will ever get <i>any<\/i> Enterprise customers, who make heavy use of Amarok over many computers, etc&#8230; &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking modern night clubs, lounges, et al)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been more of a GNOME guy, and when running Linux, I use Rhythmbox to play my music. However, Amarok 2.0 might just change that. They&#8217;ve chosen their database &#8211; it is none other than MySQL. The release notes state: Some features, such as the player window or support for databases other than MySQL, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[623,622,624,1775],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-amarok","tag-embedded","tag-kde","tag-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-k3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}