VERSION 2.4-Beta 1
FEATURES:
* New transcoding feature which converts one or more tracks with a chosen encoder
when copying to the local collection.
* Added option to use Wikipedia Mobile.
* Added settings for writing statistics and album covers back to the file.
* Leave focus in playlist search widget when using up/down to scroll through
filtered results. Thanks to Thomas Karpiniec for the patch!
* LyricsApplet: The lyrics in are now updated when they were changed in a
different place, for example in the Tag Dialog.
* Permit the use of iPod Touch 3G and possibly newer devices. Thanks to
Aurélien Croc for the patch!
* Match space-separated search terms in the playlist filter var individually. Thanks
to Thomas Karpiniec for the patch!
* Added new context applet for displaying guitar and bass tab information. Thanks to
Rainer Sigle for the patch!
* Added ability to set/update Album Artist.
* Added map view and calendar in the upcoming events applet.
* Added support for all Wikipedia languages. (BR 220617)
* Added incremental search in the Wikipedia applet (press
'/' or global search key when in focus).
* Added "Favorite Venues" to the upcoming events applet.
* Read MusicBrainz IDs of MP4 files during scanning.
* Ability to hide and show the menu bar. Patch by
Valentyn Pavliuchenko <valentyn.pavliuchenko@gmail.com>.
* Size of the On-Screen-Display font is now configurable. (BR 195186)
* Musicbrainz-based mass tagging UI by Sergey Ivanov.
* New easy to use table-based UI for Ampache server configuration. (BR 200703)
* OPML export for podcast subscriptions. (BR 126120)
* New "Playlist Length" constraint for the APG, which allows you to specify
the number of tracks in the playlist. What was the "Playlist Length "
constraint is now called "Playlist Duration".
* MPRIS2 support for controlling Amarok over D-Bus.
* New "Playdar Collection" allows searching for and listening
to music provided by a running local Playdar service.
CHANGES:
* Brought back collapsing animations of context applets.
* Added a "Donors" tab to the About dialog for our generous Roktober 2010
donors who wish to be mentioned.
* Tracks might contain lyrics in the HTML format, where there's no user-visible
content in the HTML. Those lyrics are now regarded as "empty".
* LyricsApplet: changed the layout of the "Do you really want to refetch lyrics"
message.
* Current track applet: added "show in media sources" actions for current
track's artist, album, composer, genre, and year if available.
* Current track applet: added action to open the tag dialog.
* Improved appearance of current track applet when playback is stopped.
* Better scrolling in the applet explorer.
* The default moodbar style now uses system colors.
* Added tray icon context-menu action to open the preferences dialog.
* Show a progress bar while loading pages in the Wikipedia applet.
* Added option to right-align "year" in the albums applet.
* Improved alignment of tracks in the albums applet.
* Scroll to the current album and make its tracks visible in the albums
applet. (BR 187011)
* Added ability to expand/collapse/drag disc items in the albums applet.
(BR 249488)
* Improved appearance of similar artist, upcoming events, and Wikipedia
applets.
* Improved presentation of suggested lyrics (currently only 3rd party
scripts use).
* Now using QToolTip for playlist tooltips.
* Changed playlist delegate margins and inline editor formating.
* Added "Added This Hour" filter preset to the collection brower widget.
* Bumped KDE dependency to version 4.4., and Qt dependency to 4.6.
* Print message when a file can't be copied to a media player.
Patch by Sergey Ivanov <123kash@gmail.com>. (BR 203820)
* Improved the usability of device items in Media Sources by adding tooltips.
* Deleting items in the collection/file browser will move them to trash;
pressing SHIFT while clicking the action will bypass trash.
BUGFIXES:
* Fixed white text on light blue background in tabs applet. (BR 258234)
* Fixed cover dialog crash pressing Ok when nothing is selected. (BR 258187)
* Title labels incorrectly used the text color from the plasma theme.
This caused trouble with the fixed plasma theme and light color schemes.
* Fixed a data-loss bug where the user could lose changes he made to the current
track's lyrics. (BR 207621)
* Fixed covers of Ampache tracks not available through DBus.
* Scanning stale and orphaned songs on iPod results in song duplication. (BR 235696)
* Applets' settings dialogs were partly untranslatable. (BR 255971)
* Fixed append&play action. Thanks Pieter van der Kloet for the patch. (BR 229706)
* Don't ignore the "use relative path" checkbox in the playlist export dialog.
(BR 250689)
* Fixed applet explorer getting stuck. (BR 253058)
* Fixed Wikipedia applet header layout issues. (BR 215171)
* Fixed truncated heading in albums applet. (BR 231001)
* Playlist sorting breadcrumb items have been untranslatable.
Patch by Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>. (BR 189750)
* Dynamic Playlist criteria were not being saved properly. (BR 243562)
* Collection Browser should show Artist names for Compilation Albums. (BR
252790)
* When Amarok starts and "Continue playing when Amarok is started" is selected,
the Current Track applet showed songs of the artist instead of the current
track info. Patch by Conrad Hübler. (BR 241641)
* Fixed crash on Windows when exporting playlist to any file type. Patch by
James Duncan <james.t.duncan@gmail.com>. (BR 249376)
* If album keyword is empty, show "unknown album" in context window. (BR 205038)
* Ampache would not connect to servers placed in a subdirectory.
* Fixed an initialization bug which affected all context applets.
* Fixed bug where users could drag applets around indiscriminately.
* FLAC BPM tags could be read incorrectly. (BR 234166)
Changes from 2.3.1 (in audio/amarok):
VERSION 2.3.2-Beta 1
FEATURES:
* Podcasts can now be filtered on provider and grouped in folders. (BR 219519)
* Amarok 1.4 Database Importer: added support for importing labels.
Thanks to Matěj Laitl for the patch. (BR 218996)
* Shortcuts: Added "Replay current track" shortcut. (BR 217081)
* Edit filter dialog: added "added" and "last played" date filters.
* File browser: added forward and back buttons for accessing navigate history.
* Organize Dialog: added a way to save multiple file formats as presets. (BR 122672)
* Filtering: added default presets to the drop down menu of the collection
search widget.
* Filtering: track format can now be used as filter keyword in the
collection browser, e.g. "format:flac".
* Filtering: track file size can now be used as filter keyword in the
collection browser, e.g. "filesize:<12" for tracks under 12Mb;
"filesize:25" for tracks that are between 25 and 26Mb.
* Filtering: tracks that were added to the collection since/before a
certain time can now be filtered using, e.g. "added:<1w".
* Filtering: added ability to filter last played date in the collection
browser, e.g. "played:<3d".
CHANGES:
* Let scripts access bpm property of tracks (read-only). (BR 245257)
* Remote Meta+P global shortcut to avoid future problems with new
keyboard drivers in notebooks. (BR 235204)
* Fix size of Slim toolbar time labels. Thanks to Tijl Coosemans for the patch.
* Amarok 1.4 Database Importer: only import tracks that actually belong in the
collection. Thanks to Matěj Laitl for the patch. (BR 218999)
* Refresh the albums context applet when the collection is updated.
* Don't allow the last visible playlist source in User Playlists to be hidden.
* "Play Media" dialog now remembers the last used directory. (BR 231092)
* Organize Dialog: tweaked the layout to fit better on smaller resolutions (BR 238000)
* Filtering: added year suffix for date filters in the collection browser.
* Last.fm features that require user authentication are now disabled
by default.
* Ignore "DJ" prefix when sorting in collection browser. (BR 181955)
Patch by Richard Longland <rlongland@hotmail.com>.
BUGFIXES:
* Tweaked fuzzy numerical comparisons in the APG. (BR 242281)
* Finally don't truncate the "Label:" label in TagDialog. (BR 235957)
* Fix crash when right clicking on children of "No labels". NoLabel item is
now a Data item. (BR 243825)
* Fix regression in Dynamic Collections. For files that were scanned when
Dynamic Collections wasn't working, you will need to rescan them to get
them associated with the proper device.
* Fix crash on exit with newer KDE versions. Patch by Martin Blumenstingl and Felix
Geyer. (BR 245513)
* Fixed playlist bottom toolbar getting to tall when using "Text only"
button style. (BR 228390)
* Fixed Amarok layout saving when minized to tray. (BR 244583)
* Make "No other participants" in the events applet translatable.
Patch by Jan Janssen. (BR 235311)
* Fixed track number on DAAP shares. Patch by Silvio Frischknecht. (BR 235030)
* Fixed filtering by rating in the playlist. (BR 240293)
* The scripts categories are now translatable. (BR 240563)
* Fixed Amarok 1.4 Database Importer not importing statistics and lyrics of
tracks that are not yet in database. Thanks to Matěj Laitl for the patch.
(see comments on BR 218996)
* Fixed always playing first track when adding tracks to empty playlist with
random mode on. Patch by Anton Gritsay <anton@angri.ru> (BR 240452)
* Directories that were once part of the collection but not anymore may not
have been properly removed, leading to files outside the collection being
scanned. (BR 243532)
* Fixed "genre" and other playlist groupings not working. (BR 243344)
* Removed track progress effect on TrayIcon as it caused several problems
(also caused by a bogus implementation of the KSNI class)
(BR 233506, BR 240463, BR 231539, BR 232578, BR 232312).
* Fixed track name in main window title incorrectly changing when editing
tag info for another track. Thanks to Anton Gritsay <anton@angri.ru> for
the patch (BR 220521)
* Splitted desktop so mime types can be allocated in a better way
(BR 242292).
* Fixed some tracks not being scanned when they had corrupted MusicBrainz
IDs. Thanks to Matěj Laitl <matej@laitl.cz> for the patch. (BR 236227)
* Fixed crash when navigating using "Places" in the file browser. (BR 240338)
* Fixed error dialog popup if the stored directory is no longer accessible
when using the file browser. (BR 234286)
* Single clicking a file in the file browser now selects it instead of
appending to the playlist by default in single-click mode. (BR 233171)
* Fixed resizing and eliding issues with the file browser breadcrumbs.
(BR 231366 comment #5)
* Drop file icons in file browser breadcrumbs. (BR 231366)
* Fixed keyboard navigation in file browser. (BR 240668)
Patch thanks to Hannes Koller.
* Fixed dropping files to playlist from Konqueror. (BR 235722)
* Fixed keyboard shortcuts of actions from scripts lost after restart.
Thanks to Martin Blumenstingl <darklight.xdarklight@googlemail.com>.
(BR 223165)
* Fixed tracks not changing for "stop after this track" action. (BR 231209)
* Cleaned up some tooltips/what's this strings in the Organize dialog
to make it easier to read and, hopefully, understand. (BR 237857)
* Fixed organize dialog's handling of the year tag. If there is no year
then the %year token should be an empty string.(BR 237834)
* The "Ignore 'The'" option in the organize files dialog is now case
insensitive. (BR 237831)
* Fixed odd header name when showing "places" in the file browser.
(BR 238518)
* Filenames with dots (.) and other special RegEx characters will now be
parsed correctly when guessing tags from a filename. (BR 225743)
* Align track details dialog's labels to the right as per KDE4's HIG.
(BR 234555)
* The last.fm service will now only open the wallet on startup if the user
has enabled features that require authentication. (BR 230098)
* Correctly load the list of labels in tag dialog. (BR 238737)
Patch by Daniel Faust <hessijames@gmail.com>.
* Cover manager: fixed crash if closed shortly after opening. (BR 235796)
* Fixed Last.fm service browser not updating its view if it's open on
startup. (BR 231044)
* Fixed clicking on browser categories not honoring mouse settings. (BR 226533)
* Fixed usability issue with regards to context menu item order when right
clicking in the playlist widget. (BR 198650)
The changes since Amarok 2.3.0 (audio/amarok) include:
Features
* Persistant Queue Saving: The playlist queue is now saved when
Amarok is closed and restored upon startup. (BR 215057)
* Automated Playlist Generator: allows smart creation of
playlists that match user-specified constraints. Combines the
features of "Smart Playlists" in Amarok 1.4 with the Bias system
of Amarok 2.0.
* It's now possible to mark all episodes in a channel as old
or new at once.
* New "Upcoming Events" applet, displays future concerts for
the artist of the currently playing track. The event info is
fetched from Last.fm.
* New "Similar Artists" applet, displays a list of artists
which are similar to the one currently played. The list is
fetched from Last.fm.
* The scripting system now offers a new function for detecting
that a track has finished. Patch by Michael MacDonald
<mars@antlersoft.com>. (BR 227312)
* New "CoverBling" applet, which allows to browse your collection
in an animated 3D view. Thanks to Manu Wagner <manu.wagner@sfr.fr>.
* Support for the new System Tray technology from KDE SC 4.4.
This adds nice animations and a better looking popup menu to
the System Tray. Thanks to Aurelien Gateau <agateau@kde.org>
for the patch.
* Allow playlist layouts to group tracks by directory. (BR
230594)
* Cover fetcher: The UI was improved. Now an icon view is used
to display results, with an informational sidebar that may show
interesting bits about an image.
* Cover fetcher: Added ability to enter custom queries via
Yahoo!, Google, or Discogs (in addition to Lasf.Fm). Note the
source for automatic cover fetching is still Last.fm only.
Changes
* Allow changing the number of recently added albums in the
albums applet.
* Magnatune.com store: Added "Home" link to all artist and
album pages leading to the Magnatune.com front page.
* Magnatune.com store: Improved Magnatune.com front page.
* Magnatune.com store: Completely remove option to purhcase
single albums as this is no longer supported by Magnatune.com
and the API for doing so will be disabled in the future.
* The new file browser now supports "places".
* Added "up" and "home" buttons to the new filebrowser.
* Items in the breadcrumb navigation bar are now hidden if
there is not enough room to show all of them (similar to how
it works in Dolphin) (BR 231497)
* Improved performance (dramatic in some cases) when filtering
the Playlist (231185).
* Remove information that is already displayed elsewhere in
the playlist from the playlist tooltips.
* Make showing the playlist tooltips a per playlist layout
option.
* When bookmarking a view in the local collection, also store
(and restore) the setings for "Show Cover Art" and "Show Years".
(BR 230562)
* Allow moodbar files witout the leading '.' (both
.<trackfilename>.mood and <trackfilename>.mood now work)
* Change example SQL command for setting up an external database
to remove (sometimes incorrect) host name and possibly fix some
random regression in some MySQL versions. (BR 225052)
As well as lots of bug fixes.
VERSION 2.3-Beta
FEATURES:
* Added a configuration dialog for Local Podcasts. Update interval and base
download directory can now be configured. (BR 221398)
* Make it possible to go to next/previous track with horizontal mouse
wheel button on TrayIcon. (BR 225783)
* New main toolbar with completely redesigned look and new features.
Contributed by Thomas Luebking <thomas.luebking@web.de>.
* Podcasts and Saved Playlists can now be grouped by provider like iPod, Local,
USB Mass Storage, etc. This can be toggled using a button in the relevant
Category.
* The playlist context menu now has a "Show in Media Sources" action for
many types of track.
* The collection scanner now also looks for cover images named
"folder.*". Apparently some applications use this convention. (BR 224692)
* It's now possible to automatically use a USB Mass Storage device as a
collection when it's connected.
* The progress bar tooltip now shows the position in the track that the
cursor is hovering, making it simple to jump to a specific position.
* D-Bus: Added StopAfterCurrent method for /Player.
* You can now elect to rescan specific folders. Right-click on a folder in
the collection setup dialog to rescan just that folder. This will only
work for folders that have previously been added to the collection, i.e.
you cannot check a folder and immediately rescan it. This will never be
recursive (as that defeats the point of scanning a specific folder!)
* Non collection files with a cue sheet will now load their tracks as
individual tracks in the playlist instead of as one big track with
bookmark markers.
* Dynamic Collection is back. (BR 171213)
* Searching covers from Last.fm using custom query in interactive mode.
CHANGES:
* All move/copy operations to the local collection are asynchronous.
* Proper handling of disk full and permision errors for copy/move
operations to the local collection.
* A preview of the moving/copying operations is now shown in the Organize
dialog.
* Added an expander icon to the collection root items.
* The equalizer configuration is now a seperate tool window accessible
from the tool menu.
* Files with ogg and flac extensions can now be copied to UMS devices.
* The search/filter edit in the playlist is now cleared when pressing
enter. (BR 217159)
* Amarok now checks if the version of the "amarokcollectionscanner" tool
is correct. Some users had issues with having mutiple versions of it
installed, causing scanning to fail.
* First run: Let users decided on how to handle music location set
in standard desktop services.
* Improved cover fetching accuracy and speed.
* Usability: Better design of playback configuration dialog.
* Use millisecond accuracy for track bookmarks. Backwards compatible
with bookmarks stored in previos versions. (BR 215145)
* Loving a track for Last.fm via the global keyboard action also show a
message in the status bar.
* Improved usability of the playlist layout editor dialog.
* Duplicate unique file identifiers are now indicated in debug output,
along with the paths of the files, when found instead of being silently
ignored. This can help discover multiple copies of the same file or
files which incorrectly have the same MusicBrainz unique identifier.
BUGFIXES:
* Corruption of guid strings by passing them as a KUrl caused podcast episodes
to be readded on each update. This issue has been solved.
If you have episodes that appear twice, remove the channel and add it again.
(BR 219516)
* Cleaned up the Organize dialog to make it more usable. (BR 199574)
* Made it harder to Move Files unintentionally. (BR 220716)
* Returned "Organize Files" to the collection's context menu. (BR 215902)
* Fixed Amarok Solid action for playing audio CDs working. (BR 209204)
* Fixed crash with moving applets in the Context View. (BR 191918)
* Fixed crash in KNotify. (BR 224673)
* Fixed queue management with mouse. (BR 217153)
* Fixed playback of some streams causing the progress slider to show
garbage track length and position values like -322:0-35:0-59.
* Prevent a crash when loading PLS playlists with invalid filepaths.
* Fixed scrolling crashes with the cover manager. (BR 224000)
* Fixed a bug that was deleting files when using "Move to collection"
from the file browser. (BR 217002)
* Allow fetching of album covers in the unified view. (BR 220873)
* Lyrics applet: Fixed scrollbar incorrectly displayed (and sometimes not
at all) for long lyrics under KDE 4.4. (BR 222260)
* Fixed bug in Photos applet that made it break with translated versions
of Amarok. Patch by Bellegarde Cédric <gnumdk@gmail.com>. (BR 222566)
* Lyrics applet: Fixed saving and restoring font styles. (BR 222277)
* Lyrics applet: Fixed a bug where sometimes suggested URLs are not
cleared when switching tracks.
* Fixed playlist layout editor blocking control of Amarok. (BR 220825)
* Fixed moodbar in progress slider not correctly updating after moodbar
style change (BR 220695)
* Fixed progress slider not moving for many streams (and possible other
types of tracks) (BR 221747)
* Sort artists named like "The Foo" correctly in all cases. (BR 176670)
* Fixed behaviour when clearing the bookmark manager filter.
* Fixed track not being added to the playlist when playing a track from
the bookmark manager.
Changes since 2.2.2 Beta 1
* The inline playlist editor now also allows resizing of auto
sized items that are invisible because fixed sized items already
use up 100% width.
* Enhanced the playlist sorting breadcrumb items to separately
highlight the order inversion arrow on hover. (BR 209011)
* The automatic character set detection for tags has been
disabled; it caused too many problems with legitimate UTF-8
tags. It can be re-enabled from Settings->Collection. (Many
BRs)
* Dynamic mode is now automatically disabled when replacing
the playlist. (BR 214759)
* The collection search filter now also searches for file names
as a fallback. Patch by Andreas Hartmetz .
Bugfixes
* Fixed crash with dangling pointer on trying to play a media
device track whose collection no longer exists. (BR 210477)
* Fixed loading MusicBrainz-tagged tracks in dynamic playlists.
(BR 219902)
* Fixed MusicBrainz-tagged tracks not being restored in the
playlist upon restart.
* Fixed incorrect display of rich text in applet header text.
(BR 220714)
* Fixed GUI freezing after mounting and during parse of media
devices. (BR 180520)
* Fixed occasional crash when custom biases go awry. (BR 219888)
* Fixed missing icons in the drag overlay menu.
* More reliable MimeType detection for music formats. Patch by
Rafa
* Fixed regression causing many scripted services, including
the, shipped by default, LibriVox service to not work at all.
* Fixed corner case that could prevent scans from being completed,
manifesting as a regression in 2.2.1. Huge thanks to Christian
Kreibichfor his patience and time in helping to debug this.
* Fixed removing multiple tracks from a saved playlist only
removing the first track. (BR 218527)
* Fixed cancel button not responding when loading thumbnails
in the cover manager. (BR 204882)
* Fixed crash when using the inline playlist editor to resize
items containing auto sized elements not shown becuase of all
space already being used. (BR 218167)
* Fixed relative links in wikipedia work. (BR 218512)
* Fixed multilevel playlist sorting by time since last played
so it sorts numerically rather than alphabetically. (BR 214761)
* Fixed crash with "Edit Track Details" dialog. (BR 217625)
* Fixed a number of cases where markers such as "current track",
"stop after this track" and others would get shown in both
group header and the first track in the group. (BR 197842)
* Fixed regression causing non default moodbar styles to not
work.
* Jamendo.com service: Fixed track lengths not getting shown
for most tracks. For existing installs, this requires a redownload
of the Jamendo database. (BR 200531)
* Jamendo.com service: Fixed searches not working because of
SQL errors.
* Jamendo.com service: Removed broken "Unknown" genre which
would freeze Amarok if expanded. For existing installs, this
requires a redownload of the Jamendo database. (BR 213165)
* Playback of Audio CD track now correctly stops if track is
the last in the playlist. (BR 216175)
* Fixed crash if user clicks rating widget on the current track
applet while no track is playing (which is possible since there
is a slight delay before the applet switches "mode"). (BR
215471)
* Made "Last.fm Love" (and potentially other global actions
available for all tracks) correctly show up in the Current
Track applet.
FEATURES
* Dailymotion video can now be rendered within the applet in HQ if HQ is selected
in the video applet settings.
* Rewrote podcast feed parser to correctly parse XML. Now even RSS 1.0 and
Atom feeds are supported. Patches by Mathias Panzenböck.
* Rating of playlist items can now be filtered, using "rating:#" notation.
* When removing a podcast subscription, ask for confirmation and offer to delete the
downloaded episodes. Patch by Frank Meerkötter.
* Font of lyrics applet is configurable in the lyrics applet setting page.
* BPM editing, sorting, and filtering have been implemented. (BR 214056)
Patch by Pierre Dumuid <pmdumuid@gmail.com>.
* Made it possible to change a podcast channel's URL. (BR 195204)
* Also support feed:// urls for subscribing to podcasts.
* Limited the number of simultaneous podcast updates and downloads to four.
This can be configured separately in the "amarokrc" configuration file.
* Import podcast subscriptions from OPML.
* Show HTML info for podcast channels that support this. Patches by
Mathias Panzenböck. (BR 193357)
* Ampache Service now shows Service info from last.fm
* Moodbar support is back. Can be shown in progress bar or in the playlist.
The 4 visual styles from Amarok 1 (normal, angry, frozen and happy) are
all supported. This feature requires that moodbars files are already present.
* Cover images can now be fetched via HTTP. (BR 176899)
* Custom Labels has returned. Assign labels from the tag dialog, and
see them in the tag dialog or in the playlist.
* Fetch labels from last.fm for some tracks [UPDATE THIS ONCE WE FIGURE OUT WHEN TO DO SO]
* Pressing F2 when focused in the lyrics applet jumps into editing mode.
CHANGES:
* Tracks in Albums applet are now sorted by track number. Patch by Lorenz
Röhrl <sheepshit@gmx.de>.
* New menu to add applets to the context view.
* Added rating filter to collection browser's edit filter dialog.
* Added bitrate and sample rate filters to collection browser's text input area.
* Amarok now depends on KDElibs 4.3, and Qt 4.5.
* When downloading a podcast make sure the file is not on disk already. If it is the
download is stopped and the existing file is used instead.
* Last.fm friends and neighbors are now sorted alphabetically.
* Radically reduced memory consumption while downloading podcasts by writing direct to
disk. Patches by Frank Meerkoetter. (BR 209937)
* Podcast auto-update interval is now configurable in the rc-file. Default is 30
minutes. (BR 212467)
* Magnatune.com store: Better status message when downloading albums.
* Moved the "Playlist Layout" button into the main menu, as the playlist
toolbar was becoming too crowded.
* New interface for repeat and random playback modes. Interface now correctly
represents the actual behaviour (ony one mode can be active at any time)
and is accessible directly from the playlist toolbar.
* Usability: Added tooltips all over the place, improved existing ones.
* Usability improvements for the Ampache service settings dialog.
* Length and size of queued tracks are now shown in the statusbar tooltip. (BR 144471)
* Improved Cover fetching. Changed Dialog so the user can select from
possible covers.
* Improved guessing tags from filename. Added preview to Dialog.
* Display frames around lyrics/video applets for indicating focus.
* Improved keyboard functions when editing lyrics from the applet.
* Improved automatic resizing of lyrics and suggestions in the context applet.
BUGFIXES:
* Fixed two bookmark actions having the same text description. (BR 214716)
* Remove broken right click menu from the Info applet. (BR 206642)
* Fix several bugs handling changing compilations. Patch by Morten Sjøgren
<m_abs@mabs.dk> -- thanks!
* Fixed bug with panel header icon size. (BR 208616)
* Fixed bug with OSD not being shown by dbus call. (BR 208424)
* Fixed bug with importing scores from Amarok 1.4. Patch by Michal Ziabkowski
<mziab@o2.pl>. (BR 174444)
* Fixed wikipedia applet poorly showing wikipedia main page when a track
tag is empty.
* Magnatune.com store: Album cover is now correctly fetched when redownloading.
* Magnatune.com store: Fixed crash when redownloading album: (BR 217148)
* Fixed crash when doing "Edit Track Details" on media device. (BR 217143)
* Fixed layout resizing bug with Qt 4.6. (BR 213990)
* Fixed corrupted track lengths when copying to iPod. Patch by Christophe
Fergeau <teuf@gnome.org> (BR: 215124)
* Fixed videoclip applet going blank when switching from one video to
another. (BR 210332)
* Fixed dailymotion video file direct link retrieving not working. (BR 214168)
* Fixed wikipedia engine not parsing correctly URL containing ":". (BR 209397)
* Fixed several issues with loading and saving timecode tracks to and from
playlists.
* Fixed crash when copying tracks to MP3tunes music locker. (BR 214686)
Patch by Nicolas Lécureuil <nlecureuil@mandriva.com>.
* Podcast downloads can now be properly canceled. Patch by Frank Meerkötter.
* Fixed any open menus or popus getting closed when the OSD is shown.
* Fixed copies of default layouts getting created even if just using the
inline editor to change track metadata.
* Fixed inline playlist editor saving values that had been edited but
where the value had not actually changed.
* Pressing enter now correctly applies changes in the playlist inline
editor. (BR 215924)
* The volume slider in the Slim Toolbar would sometimes work incorrectly
after startup. (BR 215185)
* Fixed popup for showing the progress of multiple tasks not working.
* Made dragging from podcast list to external program work. (BR 212343)
* Made dragging from the Last.fm service directly to the playlist work.
(BR 215494)
* Fixed crash during copying to collection with custom file naming schemes
where a component would be empty. (BR 211518)
* Magnatune.com store: Fixed incorrect download urls for non english
languages. (BR 212126)
* Magnatune.com store: Fixed membership type not remembered when running
a non english Amarok. (BR 195427)
* Support for "title:" token in the collection search. Patch by Roberto
Bertolusso <rbertolusso@yahoo.com>. (BR 211249)
* Fixed lots of memory leaks reported by Valgrind.
* Made lyrics applet colours presentable with bright and dark colour
styles. (BR 214930)
* Made sure random mode works if repeat is on. (BR 214559)
* Fixed random mode behaviour when "going back". (BR 208892)
* Made random mode work. (BR 212910)
* Fixed lyrics applet logic when saving, closing, and editing lyrics.
* Fixed graphic artifacts in the video applet.
VERSION 2.2.1
FEATURES:
* Podcasts will only be automatically updated when there is a network
connection (using Solid).
* The SMB (Samba) protocol is now supported in the playlist. Patch by
Steven van der Vegt <s.vandervegt@student.utwente.nl>. (BR 178691)
* Podcasts have better indication of status with emblem icons.
(BR 209433)
* The information from the podcast feed can be written to the downloaded
files. Both manually and automatically.
* Track bookmarks can be removed directly by using the delete icon shown
in the popup when the mouse is over it.
* Add a menu allowing the creation of any known type of bookmark to the
Bookmark Manager.
* CTRL+SHIFT+F toggles full screen mode. Patch by Rick W. Chen
<stuffcorpse@archlinux.us>.
* Podcast episodes can now be marked as new/old manually.
* Podcasts can now be grouped in the playlist and show useful info in the
tag editor.
* Playlist files can be droped on the "Saved Playlist" category to
import them into Amarok. (BR 193476)
* Playlist files from the default playlist location are now loaded by
default. (BR 209596)
* Added view menu to menu bar for ease of use.
* Saved playlists and folders can now be deleted with the keyboard.
* Added "Copy on Write" when trying to edit a read only (one of the
default) playlist layouts. The changed layout is now simply saved under
a new name.
* Added context view bookmarks, allowing saving and restoring of applet
setups.
* Enhanced --debug feature: When a function takes very long to run (> 5s),
we print a special message (DELAY) that can be searched easily.
* Middle-clicking an item in the Collection Browser appends it to the
playlist. Patch by Felix Geyer <debfx-kde@fobos.de>. (BR 197423)
* Added feature for removing duplicates from the playlist. Patch by John
Atkinson <john@fauxnetic.co.uk>. (BR 200445)
* Allow changing of playlist layout item sizes using the inline editor.
* Initial KNotify support.
* Show total playlist file size in a tooltip when hovering over the total
play list time. (BR 91640)
* Implemented "Jump To". Press Ctrl+J to focus the playlist search.
(BR 92400)
* Made Love/Skip/Ban/Enqueue/Dequeue available in Shortcuts configuration
dialog. (BR 136232, BR 187542)
CHANGES:
* Do not automatically fetch the entire Jamendo database every time the Jamendo
service is started.
* Database now does consistency checks on a semi-regular basis, with full
checks upon full rescans.
* Removal of most SQL during scan result parsing means enormous speedups
during collection scanning. (BR 210201)
* Usability improvements for the Videoclip applet.
* Restore the proper custom bias when switching between saved biases (BR 209350).
* Don't crash when receiving bogus data from Last.Fm when asking for
recommended songs (BR 208173).
* UMS device plugin now checks MIME types of tracks both by content and
filename. Thanks to Aran Cox <aroncox@gmail.com> for the patch.
* Some optimization of SQL queries during scan to speed things up. (BR
210201)
* Use an emblem for indicating a podcast episode is on disk. (BR 209433)
* Scanning speedups by getting rid of unnecessary code paths and
optimizing some queries. Patch by Egbert König <e.kunig@home.nl>.
(BR 209822)
* New main toolbar and renaming of ToolbarNG to Slim Toolbar.
* Huge performance improvements for the Cover Manager. Thanks to Michael
Reiher <redm@gmx.de> for the patch. (BR 210454)
* Improved usability and look of main control buttons.
* Multiple usability improvements for the Dynamic Playlist UI.
* Moved the Podcast category to the top level of the Content panel.
* Renamed "Browsers" panel to better suited "Media Sources".
* Improvements to the row heights in the playlist, making especially the
size of the rating stars more consistent.
* Usability improvements in the Context View's applet tab bar.
* Collection scanner won't scan a directory more than once if passed in
multiple times. Should significantly speed up certain incremental
scanning cases.
* When doing a recursive incremental scan, the scanner will no longer scan
subdirectories of changed directories if those subdirectories' mtimes
have not changed, for extremely large speedups in some cases. For very
flat collection trees, the difference is basically between a small
incremental scan and a near full rescan.
* Ask the user for confirmation before refetching lyrics and overwriting
cached ones.
* It is now possible to stop editing lyrics without saving changes in
the lyrics applet.
BUGFIXES:
* Fix issue where data structures were loaded with wrong values. (BR
212676)
* Videoclip applet didn't work correctly on some systems. Thanks for the
patch go to Jacopo De Simoi.
* Proportions of layout stay correct after window resizing. (BR 200527)
* The GUI layout is now crash persistant. (BR 211509)
* Ensure that ReplayGain float values are stored in the database with a
period, not a comma. (BR 212676)
* Fixed crashes with Icecast Directory script. (BR 206579)
* Enabled C++ exceptions handling in Amarok. This fixes various crashes
with liblastfm. (BR 212115)
* Reversed the priority of repeat and random modes. Repeat now always
takes precedence. (BR 178056)
* Fixed crash if closing amarok while the JamendoXmlParser is running.
(BR 208468) (BR 211015)
* Systray information now updates correctly for streams. (BR 211748)
* Made playlist layouts translatable. (BR 189751)
* Fixed issue with collection scanner seeing duplicate tracks if they
contained the default MusicBrainz UUID. Patch by Egbert König
<e.kunig@home.nl>. (BR 209822)
* Fixed issues with certain types of tracks not correctly getting grouped
together in the playlist when grouping by something other than album.
* Splash screen no longer hides KWallet on startup. (BR 210179)
* On Screen Display was not shown when cover image changed. (BR 195188)
* On Screen Display was not shown on automatic track change. (BR 209376)
* Automatic playlist scrolling was broken in some cases. (BR 193459)
* The On Screen Display now uses a sane font size with all display
resolutions. (BR 195186)
* Fix rare regression where inaccessible subfolders (due to permissions)
in the collection could not be picked up by an incremental scan when
permissions were fixed and their mtime updated, requiring a full rescan.
* When using a MySQL server with "Watch Folders For Changes" disabled,
very long periods of idle Amarok could allow the server to close the
local connection. This is now detected and should be worked around.
* Correctly set the lyrics applet's title when displaying HTML formatted lyrics
* Track selection is now correctly preserved when using Dynamic Playlists.
Patch by John Atkinson <john@fauxnetic.co.uk>. (BR 208349)
* Cover Manager no longer stops when one cover cannot be fetched. Patch by
Tycho Andersen <kdebugs@tycho.ws>. (BR 205032)
* Magnatune.com store: Fixed problematic use of external unzip command
for unpacking downloaded album zip files. (BR 138499)
* Magnatune.com store: Download high quality covers when purchasing or
downloading albums. (BR 176177)
* Correctly modify the Lyrics Applet's title when its state changes.
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)
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 ;)
Thomas Klausner
Mark Davies
Ian Zagorskih
Johnny C. Lam