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.
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