candidates, not many changes:
VERSION 2.2
CHANGES:
* The MusicBrainz ID of a track is now scrobbled to Last.fm, if it exists.
(BR 122281)
* More collection scanning speedups.
BUGFIXES:
* Replay gain works on the Phonon Xine backend.
* Fadeout on track end works again.
* Fixed regression where the last album to be scanned would not have its
cover picked up by the collection scanner.
* Sorting by track length in the playlist is now possible. (BR 208689)
* Fixed track bookmarks not immediately getting removed from progress bar
when they are deleted from the bookmark manager.
* Fixed new track bookmarks not getting shown in the progress bar
immediately.
* Fixed track bookmarks not getting correctly repainted when resizing
progress bar. (BR 207091)
* Correct a logic bug during incremental scanning that could cause the
wrong tracks to be removed from the collection, requiring a full rescan.
Should fix bug 208403 and likely multiple others. (BR 208403)
* "Configure Amarok" dialog takes up less space, making it suitable for
small screens.
* Fixed photos applet not working after resuming playback. (BR 206829)
* Fixed regression where the genre field in the Tag Dialog would show the
composer of the track. (BR 208255)
* Don't reshuffle the playlist every time the active track changes when
* using a random sort order.
* Fixed the Various Artist node sometimes being shown in the Collection
Browser with nothing underneath it (or an empty "Unknown" album).
* Fixed some tracks' tags not being saved correctly to the database.
(BR 202021)
VERSION 2.2-rc1
FEATURES:
* Import itpc:// podcast urls (BR 206615).
* Mark podcast episode as not-new when starting to play it.
* Reintroduced indicator icons for new podcast episodes.
* Added "subscribe" command line switch to add a podcast channel.
CHANGES:
* Removed Shoutcast Directory service due to technical and other issues.
* Made audio CDs respect the "Automatically retrieve cover art" setting.
* TagLib 1.6 built with ASF and MP4 support is now required. This release
of TagLib fixes many, many bugs and contains new format support.
* TagLib-Extras 1.0.0 is now required. This release is compatible with the
new TagLib 1.6 release.
* Removed non working menu entry "rename" from the Bookmark Manager. This
functionality is no longer needed as inline renaming is possible.
* Improvements for volume widget in ToolbarNG.
* Added "Lock layout" option to the main window's context menu.
BUGFIXES:
* Crash in QTextCodec while scanning collection has been fixed.
Apparently. (BR 191447)
* A dialog with "Can not write playlist (/)" was displayed when using
saving from within a script. (BR 206659)
* Fixed playlist grouping mode not getting correctly applied on startup.
(BR 208087)
* Fixed track queue getting "lost" when switching between different track
navigators. (BR 205920)
* Implemented proper check for running instance options on the command
line. (BR 207988)
* Improved visibility of the Context View's menus. (BR 198221)
* Fixed crash when using the eject action on an audio CD collection while
a track from the CD is playing. Instead playback is now stopped before
the CD is ejected.
* Do not show the "load" context action in the Bookmark Manager when more
than 1 bookmark is selected.
* Fixed "Create timecode track" menu entry not showing up in the Bookmark
Managers context menu when exactly 2 bookmarks are selected.
* Fixed new track timecodes always getting shown at the very beginning of
the progress slider until the track was reloaded.
* Fixed some tracks not correctly loading timecodes due to url encoding
issues.
* Fixed bookmark database tables not correctly getting created on first
run, leading to frequent sql errors.
* Fix the ends of the active track indicator getting stretched badly on
wide playlists
* Only one toolbar type will be enabled at any time (Toolbar or ToolbarNG).
Previously both could be enabled concurrently by accident.
* Multiple fixes for the Track Timecode popups. They are no longer truncated
if there is not enough space to the right and the issue with them getting
"stuck" has also been fixed. Thanks to Simon Bühler
<simon@aktionspotential.de> for this patch. (BR 196924)
* Do not crash when removing a track with no album from the playlist while
the repeat album navigator is active. (BR 207427)
VERSION 2.2-beta2
FEATURES:
* Added DBus methods Forward and Backward for relative seeking (BR 206028)
and PlayPause for toggling pause state (patches by Michael Zanetti
<michael_zanetti@gmx.net>).
CHANGES:
* Grouping mode has been merged into the playlist layouts so each layout
sets its own. The default grouping mode for layout files that do not
have this value explicitly set is "Album". Thanks to Tim Bocek
<tim.bocek@gmail.com> for this set of patches.
BUGFIXES:
* Fix genre tag in old MP4 files not being shown correctly (fixed in
Taglib-Extras-0.1.7, and upcoming TagLib-1.6). (BR 198238)
* Focus behavior is now consistent between the browsers filter widget and the
playlist filter widget. (BR 206776)
* OSX: Fixed crash when activating inline playlist editing. (BR 206576)
* Fixed dockwidget menu getting shown when right clicking on the progress
slider causing the slider to follow the mouse. (BR 206350)
* Use filename as track title for non collection files if no other title can be
found by reading metadata tags. (BR 206794)
* Update playlist filter, sort order and grouping when the metadata of a track
changes. (BR 206754)
* Do not crash if trying to load a completely empty playlist layout.
(BR 204236)
* Correctly show timecodes, if present, when starting playback of a new track.
(BR 191185 ??)
* The playlist sorting scheme is restored on startup.
* Fixed compilation of iPod collections without gdk-pixbuf.h. (BR 206347)
* Audio CDs are ejected properly.
* Media device eject/disconnect actions render properly when scrolling the
collection browser. (BR 204566)
* Fixed wikipedia applet not working when using a custom skin. Thanks to Stefan
Majewsky for the suggestion. (BR 205901)
* Fixed "Show in Service" action.
* Fixed extra empty rows sometimes getting added to the playlist layout xml
when using the playlist layout editor. (BR 205182)
* Fixed typo in D-Bus manifest, that resulted in incorrect function
invokation in IRKick. (BR 205729)
* Correctly mark playing track as active in the playlist after removing it
using the "clear playlist" button and later re-adding it.
* Fixed crash when removing an "albumless" track, like a podcast from the
playlist with the random album playback mode enabled. (BR 201476)
* Fixed track queuing when the playlist uses a random track progression.
(BR 194328)
* Fixed issue where files or folders with the same name but different case
sensitivity were not scanned and/or retained. (BR 197384)
Features
* Allow pasting an URL from clipboard to playlist with middle
mouse click. Patch by Felix Geyer <debfx-kde@fobos.de>.
* Support for copying aiff files to iPods. (BR 200820)
* Add openDesktop.org support to the About dialog to make it
easier to interact with the Amarok team.
* Add inline editing of track metadata in the playlist.
* The Playlist supports different grouping modes.
* The playlist can be partly or fully randomized (shuffled) by
selecting "random" as a sorting level.
* Info about the categories in the "Browsers" area is now shown
in the info applet on mouse over.
* Magnatune.com store: Add support for the personal recommendations
feature available to Magnatune.com members.
* Magnatune.com store: Add support for the membership "favorites"
feature. Albums can now be marked as favorites using a context
menu action, and the list of favorite albums is available in
the info applet. From here clicking links can add albums to
the playlist, navigate to the artist or album in the browser,
remove an album from favorites and (for download members) start
a download.
* Add a dbus ShowOSD method to /Player. (BR 213532)
* Playlist layouts can now show simple inline playback controls
and a progress bar for the currently active track. This can be
enabled on a per layout basis in the playlist layout manager
dialog.
* Show position in track of the mouse (the position in the
track that playback will jump to if pressing the mouse) when
hovering over the progress bar.
* Amarok File Tracking can now use MusicBrainz track identifiers
as embedded IDs.
* Allow sorting in the bookmark manager.
* Allow filtering in the bookmark manager.
* Add colums to the bookmark manger and make it possible to
edit items inline.
* Add a small bookmark menu to the browser breadcrumb bar
allowing for navigation to a bookmark, as well as creating a
new bookmark based on the current "view" or calling up the
bookmark manager.
* Magnatune.com store: Allow re-downloads of any previous
Magnatune.com purchases by a given email, not just purchases
made from a specific installation of Amarok.
* Inline editing of lyrics from the context applet. (BR 201342)
* Ipod initialization support when failed to read an iPod
database.
* Improvements to the "Show Cover" dialog. Resizes to match
the image, auto centers on screen, correctly handles images
too large for the screen and supports zooming using the mouse
wheel. Patch thanks to Pascal Pollet <pascal@bongosoft.de> (BR
175901)
* Automatically expand collection browser search results and
make the results keyboard accessible. Patch thanks to Tuomas
Nurmi <tuomas@norsumanageri.org>. (BR 172379)
* Audio CD support. Audio CDs now show up as a separate collection
and tracks from the CD can be freely mixed with any other tracks
in the playlist. Using the "Copy to Collection" menu its possible
to copy (rip) tracks directly to the local (or any other
writable) collection.
* Sortable playlist. The playlist can now be hierarchical sorted
using a breadcrumb like interface to select sorting levels.
Sorting can be easily reverted.
* Improved media device support.
* Video applet to show videos from YouTube, Dailymotion and
Vimeo. The video can be appended to the playlist, and rendered
within the applet.
* Photo applet to show images from Flickr, with customizable
animations.
* Customizable user interface using dock widgets.
* Support for external MySQL database. See
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MySQL_Server.
* GHNS integration for downloading and installing Context
applets.
* Support for Context applets to be written in QtScript.
* Custom Dynamic Playlists using Last.fm.
* Drag and Drop support for album cover image. (BR 91261)
* Upcoming and previous tracks count for dynamic playlist is
now configurable. (BR 177540)
Changes
* Imported playlists can be directly edited from within the
"Saved Playlists" category. The files on disk will be changed
as well.
* Hueristics when deciding which album to use in a directory.
See comments in (BR 196559)
* The "Service Info" applet is now simply called "Info" to
reflect that it now shows info from other parts of Amarok as
well.
* Remove the bookmark manager context applet and add a bookmark
manager dialog instead.
* Magnatune.com store: Add a link to purchase gift cards to
the purchase dialog.
* Reset playlist filter when using the "replace playlist"
action. Patch by John Atkinson <john@fauxnetic.co.uk> (BR
200709)
* Track lyrics are exposed through the DBUS interface.
* The database connection and tables now enforce UTF-8 for the
character set and collation.
* The OSD registers itself as a notification window type on
relevant platforms. Patch thanks to Danny Baumann
<dannybaumann@web.de>. (BR 194517)
* Improvements to the Wikipedia applet. History, language
settings and more.
* Improvements to the Current applet. Text slides on mouse
hover.
* New navigation style in the browser sidebar.
* Improvements to the Albums applet. Show individual track
times and highlight currently playing artist within compilation
albums
* Removed PlayAudioCD from the scripting interface. It never
worked anyway, and audio CDs are just treated as a collection
and not a special case like they were in 1.4.
* Changed trackInserted and trackRemoved API signals. (BR
194220)
Bugfixes
* Improved Amarok 1.4 import. Patch thanks to Michael Reiher
<redm@gmx.de>.
* Improved performance and decreased memory usage when loadig
music shares (DAAP collections). Patch thanks to Duns
<dunsens@web.de>. (BR 173048)
* Changing Amarok's settings no longer removes album covers
from playlist. (BR 202258)
* Fixed crash on startup if another Amarok instance was still
loading. (BRed some album art in a folder not getting picked
up if a subfolder contained any files. (BR 167158)
* Fixed broken selection in the "Saved Playlists" category.
* Fixed wrong Random Album mode behavior when playlists contains
only one album. (BR 19d double playcount increase for last
track in queue (BR 188330)
* Fixed track drag-and-drop problem when special characters
are present in file path. (BR 193878)
* Don't crash when trying to load an empty playlist folder.
(BR 202643)
* Make usouse wheel over the progress slider correctly navigate
in the currently playing track. (BR 195913)
* Correctly strip all formatting from text pasted or dragged
to the comment field in the tag edit dialog. (BR 188270)
* Fix incorrect "current item"ing track(s) from the playlist
causing up and down buttons to not move selection to the expected
row. (BR 197203)
* Jamendo service: Fix destination filenames when using "copy
to collection". (BR 171839)
* Jamendo service: Make torrent downloads w98200)
* Remove the video stream from the context view when removing
the video applet during stream playback. (BR 201281)
* Fixed locales for Amazon cover fetching. (BR 188446)
* Fix crash on trying to edit a playlist layout with an invalid
element value in the xml file. (BR 197128)
* Fix DBUS xml parsing. Patch thanks to Ryan Bitanga
<ryan.bitanga@gmail.com>.
* Fix data caching issues causing incorrect values to be stored
in the database and in some cases to be written to tags. Fixes
multiple bugs.
* Correctly enable/disable "Prefer Tracks" menu entry. Patch
thanks to Ralf Jung <ralfjung-e@gmx.de>. (BR 191059)
* Do not show "%20" at the end of each filter value in the
LibriVox service. (BR 190704)
* Cached lyrics will now en offline. (BR 197589)
* Fixed pressing play after reaching the end of the playlist
not starting the playlist from the top (or wherever the navigator
thinks it should start. (BR 176445)
* Fixed local playlists being renamed to blank when user hits cancel
* Fixed giant Edit Filter dialog with some translations. (BR
197566)
* Files browser remembers its view mode. (BR 197122)
* Fixed non-Latin UTF-8 encoding tags not being correctly
decoded.
Some of the changes since alpha 2:
Features
* Inline editing of tracks in the Collection is now possible.
* Album moves can be undone
* Grouped albums can be moved in the playlist by draggin the album
header
* Track moves in the playlist can now be undone
* Gapless playback.
* New "fuzzy" bias type, which matches values loosely.
* Collection Setup automatically expands to show selected directories.
(BR 123637)
* Tag editing and file deletion for MTP devices
* Add toolbox to context view
* Allow selecting multiple playlist items.
* Implement "Move to collection" functionality in file browser.
* Saving/loading of biased playlists.
* Improved script console
* Set items in directory selector to partially checked when relevant.
patch by Sebastian Trueg
* Album is now added to the playlist when clicked in Albums applet.
* Trigger play/pause when middle-clicking systray icon. (BR 167162)
* New start flag --multipleinstances allows to run multiple instances of
Amarok.
* Full cover support for Nepomuk collection
* Search local collection for albums to show in the album applet when
playing non local content
* Context view state is saved on exit and restored on start up.
* New functions available to the scripting interface, under Amarok.Info.
Changes
* New filename scheme widget in the Organize Collection dialog.
* New laylout of the main toolbar using the new graphics.
* Greatly reduced memory usage when using dynamic playlists.
* Reworked layout and more intuitive interface in the Guess Tags from
Filenames dialog.
* New artwork by Nuno Pinheiro and Wade Olson
* Better zooming animation in the context view
* Better usage of the available space in the context view.
* Show url in the playlist if track has no name. patch by Edward Hades
(BR 167171)
Bugfixes
* Fix crash when dragging media from an external source (or the file
browser) to the playlist (BR 169035)
* Fix crash when opening the setting dialog (BR 169215)
* Many fixes to the behavior of the playlist when dragging things
around.
* Don't pop up multiple cover search dialogs when cancelling search in
the Cover Manager (BR 167462)
* Amarok would not respect the user's changes in the cover search
dialog.
* Amarok would submit tracks to lastfm reguardless of whether the user
chose to enable scrobbling.
* OSD translucency works now. (BR 166567)
* Use name based sorting of tracks without a track number (fixes sorting
in shoutcast and cool streams services)
* Don't try to scan the whole $HOME on first startup.
* Don't pop up the OSD after changing Amarok settings. (BR: 168197)
* Fix crash when exiting while collection scan was running. (BR 167872)
* Automatically re-authenticate connection if the Ampache server has
logged us out. (BR 166958)
* Status bar now allows shrinking main window beyond it's width and does
not enlarge main window by itself. Patch by Daniel Molkentin (BR
166832)
* Submit tracks to Last.fm also when playing Last.fm Radio. (BR 164156)
* Check if the file is writable before allowing the tags to be edited in
SqlMeta. ( BR 122797 )
* Properly insert items dragged from the collection view. (BR: 166609)
* Don't remove all the tracks in the group when removing the first. (BR:
167251)
* Only increment playcount if we've played more than half of the song.
(BR 121587)
* Added protection against endless looping when a playlist contains only
unplayable tracks.
* Missing default playlist does not produce error message now. (BR
167385)
* Fixed playlist bias drop-down box showing multiple empty and duplicate
entries. (BR 167153)
* Fixed the "Toggle Main Window" shortcut. (BR 167218)
* Script manager now could stop scripts which use qt bindings.
* Fix crash when calling GetCaps from the DBus Player interface
* Update album applet on track change. (BR 167256)
AmaroK is a media player for KDE. There are many media players
around these days, true. What's missing from most players is a user
interface, that doesn't get in the way of the user. How many buttons
do you have to press for simply adding some new tracks to the
playlist? amaroK tries to be a little different, providing a simple
drag and drop interface, that really makes playlist handling easy.
This package contains the KDE4 version of amarok.
TODO:
PLIST needs more fixes, tries to remove too many files.
Feature Overview
Music Collection:
You have a huge music library and want to locate tracks quickly?
Let amaroK's powerful Collection take care of that! It's a database
powered music store, which keeps track of your complete music library,
allowing you to find any title in a matter of seconds.
Intuitive User Interface:
You will be amazed to see how easy amaroK is to use! Simply drag-and-drop
files into the playlist. No hassle with complicated buttons or tangled
menus. Listening to music has never been easier!
Streaming Radio:
Web streams take radio to the next level: Listen to thousands of great
radio stations on the internet, for free! amaroK provides excellent
streaming support, with advanced features, such as displaying titles
of the currently playing songs.
Context Browser:
This tool provides useful information on the music you are currently
listening to, and can make listening suggestions, based on your personal
music taste. An innovate and unique feature.
Visualizations:
amaroK is compatible with XMMS visualization plugins. Allows you to use
the great number of stunning visualizations available on the net.
3d visualizations with OpenGL are a great way to enhance your music
experience.
Multiple Audio Systems:
You have been using aRts, but would like to try GStreamer, or the innovative
NMM multimedia system? With amaroK, you can simply switch between these
audio systems at runtime, using a unique plugin based engine technology.
PS: Sorry, this is what http://amarok.kde.org says ;)
