On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:12 AM, Sinan H <sinan@haliyo.net> wrote:
> I was referring to system resources needed to play music - not how many Mb
> you needed to download the
> software and associated  dependencies (which will vary on many factors).
>
> As far as program size required for the named package:
>
> amarok is 5.3Mb
> amarok-libs is 2.6Mb
> amarok-utils is 61k
>

well, in any case, qmmp (which I like by the way) pulls  wildmidi-libs, which pulls fluid-soundfont-lite-patches amounting to 140MB. These would have to be included in the liveimage, unless the maintainer can be persuaded to build without midi support.

As a side note, current amarok master is on Qt5. There is no release yet but people report stable behavior. How about erring on the side of bleeding edge ?   
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An extra 140MB in the grand scheme of things is nothing IMHO.  I believe the more important thing here is to choose an application which is rock solid, does the job and most importantly has a solid history of support.  juk and amarok do not meet the last criteria.  Yes, after years of neglect both are now getting some renewed attention, but qmmp has a very solid record on this.