VERSION 2.8
FEATURES:
* Tracks from Recently Played List widget can now directly be added to
the playlist.
CHANGES:
* The Jamendo service now uses a higher quality MP3 format instead of
Ogg Vorbis.
* Added an option whether adding tracks to playlist should start playing.
* Amarok now depends on Qt 4.8.3.
* Amarok now uses FindFFMpeg.cmake from kdelibs
BUGFIXES:
Various
VERSION 2.7
CHANGES:
* Files page has been made more intuitive by making Places the root
view and significantly improving breadcrumbs behaviour.
* Make dropping large directories into playlist more responsive by
reading track metadata asynchronously in a background thread.
* Harmonize keyboard, mouse and context menu behaviour of the Files
pane so that it matches Local Music and Saved Playlists panes.
* Last.fm Skip button re-added after being removed in Beta by error.
* Podcast episodes are now loaded asynchronously on startup to reduce
delays.
* Removed alpha state and not really working spectrum analyzer applet.
BUGFIXES:
Various
VERSION 2.6-RC
CHANGES:
* Show all audio and video files in file browser.
* Remove codec install support. It's long ago been implemented in phonon.
* Prevent lags with large Saved playlists.
* Increase minimal required ffmpeg version up to 0.7.
* Use audio-x-generic icon for bit rate, not a generic one.
* Add Amarok.Playlist.playMediaList() script bindings for API symmetry.
* Building the spectrum analyzer applet can now be disabled with a CMake
argument.
VERSION 2.6-Beta 1
FEATURES:
* Amazon store: improved album search
* Support for transcoding when copying tracks to USB Mass Storage devices;
per-device transcoding preference can be saved, too.
* Provide Repopulate and Turn off link in "Dynamic Mode Enabled" bagde.
* Support for setting cover images for albums on USB Mass Storage devices.
* Support for setting and unsetting cover images for iPod albums, can
write back covers to file meta-data too, respects configuration.
* Amazon store: ability to check out an item directly without using the
Amarok shopping cart.
* Amarok now includes the Free Music Charts service by default.
* The maximum dimensions for embedded covers are now configurable.
* Small configuration dialog for iPods that shows troubleshooting
information and allows to change iPod name.
* Improved usability of iPod playlists: iPod collection automatically
transfers tracks dropped to iPod playlists to iPod when it is needed.
* Tracks can now be transcoded when transferring them to iPod.
* A diagnostic dialog reporting versions of Amarok, Qt, KDE and phonon libraries
as well as the used phonon backend and status of plugins and scripts.
Patch by Andrzej Hunt.
* Ability to move track position bookmarks by dragging; patch by
Jasneet Bhatti.
* Amarok can now remember whether and how to transcode tracks when
transferring them to a particular collection.
* "Crop playlist" functionality implemented using drag & drop.
* Added keyboard shortcut for "Edit Track Information..."
Patch by Jasneet Bhatti.
* Support for embedded album covers in non-collection tracks and
in USB Mass Storage collection.
* Hold the Shift key when dragging tracks to collections to move them
instead of copying.
* New search filter for absolute date
* Named UMS collections
* Albums with same name but different album artist are now correctly
separated in USB Mass Storage, iPod and various online service collections.
* Support for detecting compilations in USB Mass Storage collection.
* Support embedded covers for ogg (read only) and flac files.
* Track meta-data can be edited in USB Mass Storage collection.
* Support for album artists in USB Mass Storage collection.
* album artist (if differs from artist), BPM, labels, last played time and
bitrate are now shown in playlist track tooltip (if not already displayed
in playlist)
CHANGES:
* Builds with ffmpeg 0.11.
* Database structure (lyrics table) was updated. Starting Amarok for the
first time after the upgrade may take up to one minute as the data is
migrated.
* Amazon store: try to show a sensible default in the country selection.
* Only offer delete action when Shift key is pressed in Collection context
menu.
* Only offer move action when Shift key is pressed in Collection context
menu.
* Remove context view video applet. Unmaintained and broken.
* Album cover images are written in background to prevent freezes.
* Make keyboard & mouse behaviour of saved playlists browser same as of the
collection browser, including the delete key.
* Delete and Shift + Delete keys now work as expected in collection browser.
* Preserve statistics when copying or moving tracks to Local Collection.
* Common album actions such as Show cover, Show under Various Artists are
now available for all collections that support it, not just Local
collection.
* When copying files to iPod, ensure target directories exist.
* When writing covers to files, all existing covers will be replaced.
* PulseAudio status in diagnostic dialog.
* optional libgpod dependency raised to 0.8.2 to support newest iPods.
* Amarok now prevents accidental unmounting of iPods in (small) time-frames
when iTunes database on iPod is not yet updated.
* Amarok detects when iPod is to be ejected from system and gracefully
disconnects it when it occurs.
* Hitting the eject button on iPod collection ejects it also from the
system.
* iPod collection now detects whether iPod is safe to write and marks iPod
as read-only if not. This prevents "iPod shows 0 tracks" problem.
* Correct progress bar advancement when transferring tracks to iPod.
* iPod Collection supports multiple simultaneous cancellable transfers.
* Improved dialog to initialize iPod.
* Load tracks in playlists asynchronously using proxy tracks.
* It is now possible to transcode tracks when moving them.
* Drag & drop of tracks and playlists to Saved Playlists works in all cases.
* Don't show unmounted USB Mass Storage devices and make it clear when
the device is not "activated" yet.
* "Devices" in Amarok configuration -> Plugins is with other related strings
renamed to "Local Collection Backends" to reduce user confusion.
* Enable keyboard activation of PlaylistBrowser items.
* Don't use `mysql_config --variable=pkgincludedir`, find mysql include
directory manually by looking up mysql.h.
* Album artist is now guessed for tracks that do not belong into any
collection and tracks from USB Mass Storage collection. Guessing uses the
same algorithm as Local Collection.
* When hovering iPod, UMS or MTP collection in collection browser,
"1.2 GB free" is shown instead of "85% used"; thicker capacity bar.
Plus many bugfixes.
Version 2.5
FEATURES:
* Now It's possible to use formated strings for prefix and suffix in
Playlist's layout items.
BUGFIXES:
* Do not crash when iPod doesn't have a master playlist. (BR 288936)
* Fix Last.fm not finding KDE Wallet. (BR 286741)
* Put a border around bottom toolbars, visually separating them from
browser contents. (BR 277741)
* Align the bottom toolbars.
* Allow albums with empty name but nonempty artist in local collection.
* Fix collection info display (track count, free space) for iPod and MTP
devices. (BR 232093)
* Fix crash at exit with Qt 4.8
* Fix moving applets rightward in the context toolbar.
* Fix breadcrumbs not working properly for the file browser.
* Disable cover fetching action for tracks not in the collection to avoid
crash when trying to "save as" a cover. (BR 287604)
* Show default cover in tag dialog when track is not in the collection.
* Fix directory selection when opening album location in tag dialog.
* Fix crash in CoverFoundDialog if progress dialog is cancelled just
before fetch is done.
* Correctly parse disambiguation pages for songs in the English Wikipedia.
* Fix wrong context view applets sizes on start up in some cases.
* Fix Amarok consuming CPU until main window is shown. (BR 278897)
* Fix last.fm 'scrobble composer' option's fallback to artist (BR 286215)
* Fix volume control from within Amarok.
* Fix slow startup because of imported playlists. (BR 284761)
* Fix audio CD detection on Amarok start. (BR 276032)
* Set a default filename scheme for USB Mass Storage (BR 285900)
* Fixed crash during MusicBrainz search. (BR 277475)
CHANGES:
* Load Last.fm friend/neighbour avatars on demand.
* Update tracks in the recently played widget only when needed.
* Allow editing the SearchWidget during a search animation.
* Update the collection view while UMS is scanning.
* Don't block the UI while scanning UMS device.
* Allow going back and forward in Amazon store. Thanks to GCI student
Nikola Miljkovic.
VERSION 2.4.0
CHANGES:
* New Splash Screen by Tomasz Dudzik <madsheytan@gmail.com>.
* The "Playdar Collection" feature has been disabled until some technical
issues are resolved.
* Fixed some broken radio stream URLs.
BUGFIXES:
* Fix crash on copying tracks between collection. (BR 261364)
* Fix fetching of script data. BBC, Free Music Charts and others should work again.
(BR 261839)
* Actually show the Splash Screen by default, as it was meant to work.
* Leave all pending files in case of error/conflict during tracks moving. (BR 257739)
* Fix crash when moving tracks between collections. (BR 253033)
* Fixed issue with UMS Collection that made amarok to delete original track
instead of newly copied one. (BR 238915)
* Fixed issue with Audio CDs that do not provide CDDB information. Patch by
Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>. (BR 257818)
* Fixed issue with the Organize Files Dialog that prevented presets from being
loaded when in advanced mode. Patch by Philipp Schmidt <philschmidt@gmx.net>.
(BR 255325)
VERSION 2.4-Beta 1
FEATURES:
* New UPnP Collection detects and plays media on UPnP devices on the network.
* 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)
==BEGIN Qt 4.6 / KDE 4.4 DEPENDENCY==
commit 7dbec1171386f182be77942ae43dc3684a96cfc4
Author: Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann@kde.org>
Date: Sat Oct 2 09:06:11 2010 +0200
Better workaround for wrong applet size on startup.
This version also works in the case that Amarok was hidden to
tray before starting, and it does not produce a jerking motion
when starting in fullscreen mode.
Thanks to Felix Geyer <debfx-pkg@fobos.de> for the idea.
It might worth to include this patch in Amarok packages.
Bump PKGREVISION.
VERSION 2.3.2
FEATURES:
CHANGES:
* Bumped libMTP dependency to version 1.0.0.
* Improved response of current track and albums applet on data updates.
* Use system date/time format for default name when saving user playlists.
BUGFIXES:
* Fixed incorrect size of the VideoClip applet. (BR 247097)
* Comments embedded in files that contained newlines or tabs could be
skipped entirely. (BR 223502)
* The equalizer dialog did not discard changes when clicking "Cancel".
Patch by Anton Gritsay <anton@angri.ru>. (BR 242730)
* The Last.fm service did not work without KWallet. (BR 235861)
* Show actual KDE version in the "About Amarok" dialog, instead of the
version used at compile time.
* Fixed a crash when trying to save a playlist to a file where the format
of the playlist was unknown. (BR 246168)
* Also use podcast channel image for downloaded episodes. (BR 229391)
* Collection directories that were symlinks could end up storing the wrong
absolute path, causing those files to be removed during incremental
scans.
* Fixed playlist tooltips not showing up, even when enabled in the playlist
layout (BR 249086)
* Fixed potential crashes related to Applet loading. (BR 246756)
* Fixed possible crash in Labels Applet when playing new track. (BR 248538)
* Fixed incorrect layout of applets on startup.
* Fixed Collection Browser not properly updating after a full rescan,
necessitating Amarok to be closed and reopened. Fixes various bugs.
(BR 172542)
* Fixed cover found dialog closing when download failed or is cancelled.
* Fixed failure when fetching cddb info for audio CDs in localized Amarok.
* Fixed expanding items in collection browser by double-click, in
double-click mode.
* Fixed crash when adding new folders repeatedly in podcast/saved playlist
browsers.
* Fixed context menu actions acting on wrong indices in the playlist
browser.
* Fixed incorrect text about "rpath" argument to collection scanner.
(BR 236076)
* Fixed emission of MPRIS StatusChange signal when switching into or out
of random mode.
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)
Changes
* Improved responsiveness when expanding/collapsing items in the collection browser when using single-click mode.
* The Collection scanner now runs with idle priority when invoked by Amarok. Batch scan users can invoke it with the --idlepriority flag.
Bugfixes
* File browser: fixed sorting files by date. (BR 226941)
* Fixed issue with file browser bookmarks not working when the file browser was showing "places".
* Fixed crash when right clicking in file browser while it is showing "Places". (BR 237562)
* Fixed strange selection behaviour in the music sources pane (BR 222760).
* Fixed factor used when filtering lengths in collection browser.
* Fixed wrong value used when filtering comments in collection browser.
* Don't truncate the "Label:" label in the TagDialog. (BR 235957)
* Display extended characters properly in names of Last.fm streams. (BR 222930)
* Cover fetcher: prevent automatic fetcher from setting album's cover if it is done manually during the download. (BR 236839)
* File browser: show folders first, files afterwards. Patch by <dystopticus@gmx.net>. (BR 226599)
* Queued track's contextual menu entry about dequeueing was written wrong and misleading. (BR 235047)
* Custom color setting in the On Screen Display was only applied after restart. Patch by Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>.
* Track Rating was not always displayed correctly in the On Screen Display. Patch by Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>.
* Improved layout for applet setting dialogs. Patch by Felix Geyer <debfx-kde@fobos.de>.
* Made icons in applets react correctly in double-click environments. Thanks to Felix Geyer <debfx-kde@fobos.de>.
* Several bug fixes for the bundled LyricWiki script. Patch by Oleg G <verdrehung@gmail.com>. (BR 233605)
* Better fix for pausing SHOUTcast streams, without advancing to the next track after resume. (BR 192878)
Version 2.3.1-Beta 1
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)
* 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)
Bugfixes
* Fixed Youtube videoclip broken engine due to their recent change.
* Fixed Wikipedia no loading the css on KDE 4.4 (due to a regression in Qt 4.6.) (BR 222875)
* Settings dialog could become too wide with translations. (BR 233752)
* Fixed re-mounting iPhoneOS devices after having been unplugged without being unmounted. Thanks to Jeffrey Dodge <hazridi@gmail.com>. (BR 233305)
* Fixed connection to iPod Touch devices. Patch by Jeffrey Dodge <hazridi@gmail.com>. (BR 233257)
* Fixed the deletion of empty directories after deleting, or organizing. (BR 190881)
* Fixed a hang that would occur when organizing a track and the source file was the same as the destination file. (BR 233181)
* Fixed the double delete confirmation dialog when organizing tracks. (BR 233200)
* Fixed broken rendering of ratings in Current Track applet on startup.
* Fixed command type names shown in the Bookmark Manager not being translated. (BR 226829)
* Fixed crash on startup for users of MySQL 5.5. Thanks to Bartosz Fabianowski for figuring it out. (BR 231166)
* Readded missing hover info for the new filebrowser.
* Fixed missing images in the hover info shown for various browser categories.
* Fixed crash when running some Amarok urls on startup. (such as when passed on the command line or cliked in another app) (BR 231626)
* Fixed crashes when Amarok is started and the Info applet is loaded with certain version of Qt. (BR 227639) (BR 229756)
* Fixed organize collection dialog deleting tracks at new location instead of old. (BR 217002)
* Fixed a broken podcast feed that had a minor compliance issue in date format. (BR 231062)
* Fixed "files" bookmarks not storing the actual path shown in the file browser (BR 231437)
* Fixed incorrectly displayed cover images for albums with the same name, e.g. "Greatest Hits". (BR 170146)
* Fixed problems with new Main Toolbar and SHOUTcast streams: Since these streams cannot be paused, we detect this now and stop them instead.
* Fixed permission errors with each file copied to an iPhone via iFuse. Thanks to Colin Guthrie <cguthrie@mandriva.org> for the patch. (BR 231021)
* Fixed issues with using random navigators while filetering or searching the Playlist. (BR 229226) (BR 222129)
* Fixed crash related to the new playlist tooltips. (BR 229696)
* Fixed some artist/album/track names not getting shown or getting shown incorrectly in the Current Track applet because of html encoding. (BR 222765)
* Fixed issue with the Albums applet not correctly updating when playing a track by an artist not present in the local collection.
* Fixed Albums applet not getting updated if the artist of the currently playing track was edited. (BR 210296)
* Fixed bad window title for the details edit dialog in the playlist layout editor. (BR 227912)
* Fixed wrong track getting dragged from the Playlist when sorting and/or filtering is active. (BR 226503)
* Fixed visual indication for "Stop After This Track" not getting shown immediately when using the global shortcut. (BR 230569)
* Cover fetcher: Fixed a crash involving reappearing cover found dialogs and pending cover fetches. (BR 230215)
* Display tooltips with applet names in the context toolbar. (BR 230736)
* File browser: "Add to Playlist" doesn't add playlist files to the playlist. (BR 229290)
mysql server.
Changes:
Team Amarok is proud to announce Amarok 2.3.0. It contains many
improvements and bugfixes over Amarok 2.2.2 as well as many new
features. Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have
seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage
devices (including generic MP3 players).
With large parts of Amarok 2 becoming quite mature, it was also
time to start looking forward again. Therefore, this release also
contains a number of new features of a slightly more experimental
nature. These include a new main toolbar and a rewritten and much
simpler file browser. These parts are brand new and based on user
feedback, and they will change and improve over the next few
releases. The old slim toolbar is still available should you prefer
that, but we encourage you to try out the new toolbar and tell us
what you think. The file browser's look and feel now aligns more
closely with the rest of Amarok with improvements such as breadcrumb
navigation, and it is now focused on being a way to find and play
music instead of being a multi-purpose file manager.
The context menu of tracks in your playlist now offers a "show in
media sources" option, making it easier to find the same track
again in the collection browser for editing, moving or deleting
the file.
Podcasts have received a configuration dialog allowing you to change
the update interval as well as the location to store new downloaded
episodes. Podcasts and saved playlists are now also grouped by
source, and a merged view is available just like in your local
collection - perfect for those that don't care where their music
is coming from but simply want to listen to it. Now, when a new
source of playlists or podcasts becomes available, Amarok will
switch off merged view and show a collapsible list of your new
listening sources.
The Wikipedia applet now looks better and links have been fixed.
Internal links to other pages on Wikipedia will display in the
applet, and external links open a browser window.
In short, Team Amarok has been focusing hard on furthering our
long-term goal: making Amarok the best tool for immersing yourself
in music, no matter where it comes from.
VERSION 1.4.8
CHANGES:
* Optimise some database queries with the mysql backend. Patch by Alf
Eaton <sites@hubmed.org> (BR 152749).
* Don't show the device plugin dialog when a new device is plugged in.
Apparently it's not obvious that you have to hit OK after selecting "Do
not handle" if you don't want it handled, so disabling it prevents it
from being shown repeatedly.
* Better support for iPhone/iPod Touch mounted via fuse/sshfs (libgpod 0.6.0
or newer required).
* Only re-render the context view when visible if changing ratings, scores
or labels for songs.
BUGFIXES:
* Last.fm metadata would not update with xine 1.1.8. (BR 150429)
* Amarok would forget podcast channel and episode settings when using the
postgresql backend.
* When adding file types with the Generic Media Device sometimes the
extensions would be prepended with & and would not save. (BR 151806)
* For improved compatibility with newer iPods, convert file extensions to
lower case during transfer.
* Replace slashes in artist name with spaces when querying Wikipedia
e.g. AC/DC, To/Die/For. (BR 150001)
* Always rebuild the dynamic mode cache when in Suggested songs mode,
so that we don't land up with stale suggestions. Patch by Jer Johnson
<jer@gweep.net>
* Sort albums made in the same year alphabetically in 'ascending
order'. (BR 149408)
* Statistics tool shouldn't show samplers in 'favorite albums'.
* Duplicate songs were not allowed in playlist when adding from the
collection browser. (BR 149643)
* Make sure the localUrl of a PodcastEpisode is valid after a failed
download. (BR 147351)
* Fix off-by-one error causing Smart Playlists to not load tracks with a
rating >= 4.5. (BR 148916)
* Don't enable "Configure Podcasts" at the top-level Podcasts folder if
there is nothing beneath it. (BR 146504)
* Generic Media Device could copy some non-ASCII filenames to turn to
gibberish. Thanks to David Smith <davidsmith@acm.org> for the fix.
* Fixed possible GUI freeze when Amarok was showing the dialog for
installing mp3 support. Patch by Sascha Sommer <ssommer@suse.de>.
(BR 147126)
* Amarok could needlessely reinitialize connections to MySQL databases
after a configuration change. Combined with a bug in MySQL libraries,
this could lead to a crash.
* Pressing Preveious Track in a Dynamic Playlist could cause undefined
behavior in certain edge conditions. Now it always plays the current
track. (BR 148317)
* Immediately after loading a dynamic playlist, you couldn't drag a
track to the top of the playlist. (BR 149263)
* Fix transferring files with UTF8 names to MTP devices. Thanks to Kevin
Becker <kevman3000@gmail.com> for the fix. (BR 139722)
* Display warning that iPod sysinfo could not be written in the case of
incorrect file permissions. Patch by Christian Ober-Blöbaum
<cob@tzi.de>. (BR 148607)
* Fix Czech character conversion to ASCII for Generic Media Device. Patch
by Matěj Laitl <strohel@gmail.com>. (BR 149125)
VERSION 1.4.6
CHANGES:
* Improved icon theme, kindly provided by Landy DeField
<lando@revelinux.com>. Big thanks!
* Playlist now sends notifications to scripts if items are added, removed,
reordered, or if the playlist is cleared. Useful for script authors.
Thanks to Miguel Angel Alvarez <maacruz@gmail.com> for the patch.
* iPod device plugin now handles RockBox devices. Thanks to Michael
Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> for the patch.
* Organising files will only delete empty parent folders if the folder
is within the collection hierarchy. (BR 136757)
* The default cover image preview size has been increased to 130px.
* The "hide menubar" option has been removed. It's too dangerous and led
to countless support requests.
* Generic media device can now handle any KIO-compatible URL, including
obex and smb. Manage your bluetooth phone's music collection through
Amarok!
* Upgraded SQLite to 3.3.17.
* Append an album to the playlist by right-clicking on it from within
the Cover Manager. Patch by Doug Reich <dreich@hmc.edu>.
* Faster playlist handling. Patch by Ovy <ovy@alum.mit.edu>. (BR 142255)
* The moodbar process has been given a higher priority. (BR 136867)
* Allow for lyrics scripts to specifiy site, site_url, and add_url from
within the script. This will allow for "meta lyrics" scripts. Patch by
Sergio Pistone <sergio_pistone@yahoo.com.ar>. (BR 141885)
* First rating star now lets you toggle between no rating, half a star,
and one full star.
BUGFIXES:
* Uninstalling scripts would in some cases leave files behind. Patch by
Sergio Pistone <sergio_pistone@yahoo.com.ar>. (BR 143716)
* Last.fm "Custom Station" stream works again. (BR 146020)
* Fix regression where the "Show Script Manager" button displayed on the
Lyrics tab of the Context Browser wouldn't actually show the Script
Manager.
* Don't show ratings from the previous track's rating change in the OSD on
playing the next track.
* The config dialog is now less tall and fits on widescreen displays.
* Making a dynamic playlist with the number of previously played tracks to
show set to zero and attempting to play the first track would cause a
crash. (BR 145157)
* If "Stop after current track" was used, the last track would not be
counted or rated in the user's statistics. (BR 140980)
* Generic media device wouldn't allow you to drop a folder on the
viewport, meaning you couldn't move subfolders to the top level of the
mount point.
* Made the settings dialog less tall. (BR 141250)
* Star ratings now update instantly in the Context Browser, OSD, and
Collection Browser.
* lyrc script did not work behind proxy due to a stray quote mark. Gentoo
Bug 166050.
* Fix compilation on kde-3.3 systems.
* amarok_live.py now uses popen correctly. Patch by Luke Macken
<lmacken@fedoraproject.org>. (BR 127804)
* Make amarok_proxy.rb use HTTP/1.0 as we don't support chunked responses.
Patch by solsTiCE <solstice.dhiver@laposte.net>. (BR 141819)
* Fix Quadratic loading in Playlists. Patch by Ovy
<ovy@alum.mit.edu>. (BR 142255)
* Correctly set iPod model. Patch by İsmail Dönmez <ismail@kde.org>.
* Fix detection of vfat devices on FreeBSD. (BR 141614)
* Right-click on volume slider would change the volume. (BR 141672)
For some reason, a (char *)0 gets defined somewhere on DragonFly
and breaks C++ horribly.
Add USE_LIBTOOL to workaround libtool breakage (unability to find
library `').
Changes since last packaged version (1.3.3):
VERSION 1.3.5:
BUGFIXES:
* Fixed a build issue.
* Fixed potential crash at startup. (BR 114983)
VERSION 1.3.4 (unreleased):
FEATURES:
* Helix-engine supports ALSA (using RealPlayer 11). (BR 113909)
* Atom feed compatibility for podcasts.
* Statusbar messages are logged to a file, statusbar.log. (BR 99899)
* Podcast configuration now provides the ability to set the values for
all podcasts. (BR 114371)
* Downloading multiple podcasts will throw them into a queue, and
each will be downloaded sequentially. (BR 114370)
* Playlistbrowser items can be dragged into folders.
CHANGES:
* Categories in the playlist browser are now always in the order of:
Playlists, Smart Playlists, Dynamic Playlists, Radio Streams, then
Podcasts, regardless of sorting options. (Items in the categories
are still sorted normally.)
* Reworked systray icon handling -- mostly under the hood, but it'll
now update properly f. ex. when you change the cover. (BR 111014)
* Tooltip for the queue icon in the statusbar will now show the album
cover of the upcoming track.
* Totals in the collection browser will now reflect the visible items
if you set a filter.
* Podcast settings "download on request" and "stream on request" have
been merged.
* About button in script manager now uses a KAboutDialog and supports
rich text format in the README file. (BR 110961)
* After filtering the collection browser, if only a single item is left
visible, it will automatically be expanded.
* Added items for the Equalizer, Visualizations, and Queue Manager to
the context menus of the volume slider, analyzer, and statusbar queue
icon, respectively.
BUGFIXES:
* If you queue an album from the context browser and then undo, the
queue icon in the statusbar is now updated properly (and hence
doesn't crash if you click on it).
* helix-engine no longer emits new metaData if only the bitrate of a
stream changes. (BR 114348)
* Fix amaroK attempting to destroy your computer, reach through the
monitor and violently strangle you if you attempt to exit while the
collection is being scanned. (BR 114597) (BR 114859)
* Postgresql code cleanup and fixed regression for manual collection
scanning. Autoscan still does not work. (BR 111209)
* File browser now sets to home if it was on a remote directory to prevent
annoying error messages. (BR 114498)
* Podcast settings would not add a trailing slash to podcast save
locations. (BR 114712)
* Workaround for stability issues with HyperThreading on Linux.
Added a configure check to deal with buggy GLIBC's. (BR 99199)
* xine-engine: Equalizer became inactive on trackchange when crossfading
was enabled. (BR 114492)
* Pausing a track would abort lyrics and wiki fetch jobs. (BR 114576)
* Dynamic mode did not respect repeat track mode. (BR 114585)
* The Script Manager no longer captures the script's stdout.
* Enqueuing files with amarok -e would not work for relative paths if the
working directories of the new and the running instance of amarok differ.
* Visualizations would only work when amarok was run as amarokapp.
(BR 99627)
* The number of podcasts items would be limited even when the user didn't
set it. (BR 114353)
* Switching system language wouldn't affect the root folder names on
Playlist Browser.
* On Context Browser, when showing a cached lyric, "add", "search", and
"open in external browser" buttons wouldn't work. "Open in External
Browser" is now disabled for cached lyrics. (BR 110812)
* Refreshing all podcasts when folder existed caused a crash.
* Multiple job statusbar widget was broken. (BR 114278)
* HTML in tags was getting interpreted in the context browser.
* Changing the podcast purge count could sometimes cause amaroK to hang.
* NMM-engine: Fixed crash after playing a song to the end, the trackEnd
signal was not emitted from the GUI thread.
* With Random Mode enabled and Repeat Playlist disabled, when it got to
the last track, it would play it a second time and then keep on playing
other tracks, instead of just stopping.
* Smart-Playlists were broken with PostgreSQL. Patch by Michael Landin
Hostbaek <mich@freebsd.org>. (BR 114269)
* Collection scanner ignored files with non-ascii characters. (BR 114195)
* Don't show "Change Collection Setup"-box for non-local files.
* Fixed issue with loading playlists containing remote URL's.
* Dynamic mode history tracks would be forgotten if there was no current
track on startup. (BR 110160)
* Fixed problems with "Retrieve Similar Artists" feature in combination
with SQLite, which could lead to 100% CPU usage. (BR 104447)
* Tabbing between items and cells in the playlist while editing them now
works much nicer (goes in order and doesn't tab to invisible columns),
and you can also now use Alt+Up, Down, Left, Right to navigate between
cells as well.
* Podcast settings failed to remember the save location. (BR 114128)
* Tray icon would stop filling up and showing play/pause icon if show
player window was toggled. (BR 93711)
* If player window is toggled during playback, playlist window's caption
now correctly shows the current track's name.
* Crossfade length would be enabled in Playback options when "No
crossfading" was selected.
* If an engine does not support crossfading, "No crossfading" is now
selected in Playback options.
Too many changes, bugfixes and features since last packaged version (1.2.4) to
list here. Please see amaroK's homepage or the ChangeLog file enclosed in the
source tarball.
Changes since last packaged version (1.2.2):
FEATURES:
* Graphequalizer script can now enable and disable the equalizer.
* New DCOP call "player: equalizerEnabled" returns whether or not
the equalizer is enabled.
* OSD notification for mute.
* Mute global shortcut, Win+M.
* Add %comment token for comment display in OSD. (BR 100944)
* View/Edit track entry into context menus of ContextBrowser and
CollectionBrowser.
* You can mark/unmark albums as compilations via CollectionBrowser's
right-click contextmenu.
* New DCOP call "collection: query(const QString& sql)".
Allows to make arbitrary queries on the Collection database.
* New DCOP call "playlist: removeCurrentTrack()". (BR 92973)
CHANGES:
* Show "Artist - Title" for compilation discs in CollectionBrowser
and ContextBrowser.
* Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.2.0.
* DCOP call saveCurrentPlaylist() now returns the path to current.xml.
BUGFIXES:
* Appropriate context menu entry for changing queue status for multiple
playlist items.
* Fix regression preventing dequeuing multiple selected tracks.
* 'Show Toolbar' remembers its settings between sessions. (BR 98662)
* When doing Musicbrainz lookup from the Context browser, search for the
real track, not the whole album.
* Memleak when a radio stream stalled. (BR 102047)
* The Collection Scan finally checks for the right file modification time.
* Adding a compilation disc from ContextBrowser was broken.
* GStreamer-engine: Reduced the gap when switching to next track without
crossfading.
* GStreamer-engine: amaroK was swallowing the beginning of a track when
Fade-in was set to zero. (BR 94472)
* Use a better highlight color in the "Configure Collection" dialog.
(BR 102059)
* "Remove Duplicates / Missing" fixed. Removes dead entries correctly.
* Fix units for samplerate. (BR 101528)
* amaroK using 100% CPU on some systems. (BR 101524)
(a KHTML bug which got exposed by code in amaroK 1.2.2)
Changes since last packaged version (1.2.1):
FEATURES:
* Context Browser CSS styles can now be installed and selected from the
appearance settings.
* Append Suggestions now has an icon in the statusbar.
* When selecting multiple files, the "View/Edit Meta Information" dialog
will show the tags that are common to all of them. (BR 100423)
* A line graph equalizer added as a script "graphequalizer."
CHANGES:
* Add 25-track and 50-track smart-playlists.
* Update current-track icons to include greater padding.
* The contextbrowser now uses data:-URLs instead of temp image files, so
they cannot be left on disk when amaroK terminates unexpectedly, and the
Konqueror/Universal sidebar can show them when amaroK is not running.
BUGFIXES:
* escape '&' char in contextmenu entry (BR 101276)
* Track is set as a number in the database, so shouldn't be added rounded
by quotes. (BR 101208)
* Rewrote the broken .pls playlist parser.
* Handle delay gap between songs properly with aRts engine. (BR 90404)
* Switched order of "Make playlist" and "Queue after current track" menus
to avoid playlist destruction. (BR 96164 part 1)
* Visualizations with LibVisual didn't work in some cases. (BR 99627)
* amaroK could fail to build if the whole kdeextragear-1 module was
compiled, due to conflicts with K3B on the MusicBrainz check. (BR 100906)
* Images shown on OSD where incorrect for action notifications.
* The handbook translations were not built when amaroK was installed from
the tarball. I've written a new release script in Ruby, which can
handle the new structure of kde-i18n. (BR 100498)
* GStreamer-engine can now play vorbis radio streams properly, with
full metadata support. (BR 89821)
* GStreamer-engine now uses the "decodebin" autoplugger, which fixes
the lag issues that some users had during crossfading. (BR 99570)
VERSION 1.2.1:
FIX: Made the Tag-Editor only operate on visible items. (BR 100268)
ADD: Database settings added to the first-run wizard.
FIX: playlist2html generates UTF-8 output now. (BR 100140)
FIX: Bitrate/length showed random values for untagged mp3 files. (BR 100200)
FIX: Crash when recoding stream MetaData without CODEC selected. (BR 100077)
CHG: Show an additional "Compilations with Artist" box in ContextBrowser.
ADD: Remember collapse-state of boxes in ContextBrowser. (BR 98664)
ADD: Display an error when unable to connect to MySQL.
ADD: Konqueror Sidebar now has full drag and drop support.
CHG: Replaced "Blue Wolf" icon with Nenad Grujicic's amaroK 1.1
icon, due to legal issues.
ADD: Parameter "%score" shows the current song's score in OSD.
CHG: When you delete a song within amaroK, it gets removed from
the Collection automatically.
FIX: Directory column in the playlist was eating the first letter.
ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: setStopAfterCurrent(bool)". (BR 99944)
FIX: Coverfetcher: Do not crash when no cover was found. (BR 99942)
FIX: Support for amazon.co.jp was broken.
CHG: Toolbar items reordered for optimal usability, as suggested by
Aaron "Tom Green" Seigo.
FIX: Show covers for albums containing chars '#' or '?'. (BR 96971 99780)
ADD: Help file for the playlist2html script.
ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: int getActiveIndex()".
ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: playByIndex(int)".
CHG: Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.1.3.
FIX: Update the database after editing tags in playlist. (BR 99593)
ADD: New DCOP function "player: trackPlayCounter". (BR 99575)
ADD: .ram playlist support with code from Kaffeine. (BR 96101)
FIX: amaroK can now determine the correct track-length even for formats
unknown to TagLib. Makes it possible to seek e.g. in m4a tracks.
ADD: Can now pick from multiple Musicbrainz results. Patch from
Jonathan Halcrow <gte899j@prism.gatech.edu>. (BR 89701)
ADD: May now set a custom cover on multiple albums in the Cover-Manager.
ADD: Support relative path of tracks in writing playlists. (BR 91053)
FIX: Don't inline-edit tags for the whole playlist's selection.
FIX: Fix "Recode Tags" crash issues. (BR 95041)
ADD: "Set Custom Cover" can fetch remote images. (BR 90499)
VERSION 1.2:
ADD: "Repeat Track" status is reflected by an icon in the playlist.
ADD: New icons from tightcode for statusbar and repeatTrack.
ADD: New Smart-Playlist "Ever Played".
CHG: Bumped GStreamer version requirement to 0.8.4.
CHG: Made it possible to use artsdsink with GStreamer again.
CHG: Don't read m3u files recursively when dropping a folder on the
playlist. No more doubled entries.
FIX: Shoutcast radio with GStreamer is improved, no more dropouts when
starting a stream.
ADD: The "Similar Artists" feature (using Audioscrobbler) can now be
switched off. (BR 95280)
FIX: Error in Shoutcast http-request, which made it impossible to play
many radio streams with GStreamer and aRts. (BR 97211, 98569)
CHG: Better default directory for selecting a custom cover.
FIX: ContextBrowser reloads after setting a custom cover. (BR 96548)
FIX: Cover-Manager's full-screen view works with Bughira (brushed metal).
ADD: Script-Manager can auto-run scripts on application startup.
ADD: aKode engine, depends on KDE 3.4. No configure check yet.
FIX: Don't add non-audio files to the Collection.
CHG: We now use the SqlLoader, which greatly improves the performance of
adding stuff to the playlist from SmartPlaylists and the Collection.
VERSION 1.2-beta4:
ADD: It is now possible to select the right image if there are multiple
results from Amazon. Patch from Gregory Isabelli <g_isabelli@yahoo.fr>.
(BR 93287)
CHG: Reorganized the DCOP interface. We used to have all DCOP functions in the
"player" group. Now it's splitted up into several categories. Attention
script writers: Adjust your DCOP calls!
FIX: The loader is now more robust and should always find amarokapp.
CHG: The search-browser has been integrated into the file-browser.
CHG: OSD can have fake transparency and new fancy shadow.
ADD: DCOP function "shortStatusMessage", shows a temporary message on the
application's statusbar.
FIX: Frequent crashes when writing tags. (BR 95344)
FIX: CoverManager updates its status display correctly.
FIX: "isPlaying" DCOP function now works correctly. (BR 90894)
ADD: Automatic crash report generator, sends backtraces to amaroK HQ.
ADD: DCOP function "saveCurrentPlaylist". Writes the playlist to current.xml,
for scripts that need to access the playlist contents.
ADD: Playlist2html, a script for playlist exporting. (BR 96199)
ADD: Improved statusbar, with animated error notification widget.
ADD: New progress display system, can show multiple expandable progress
widgets in the statusbar.
ADD: Alarm script, starts playing music at specified alarm time.
ADD: Script-Manager for DCOP script extensions is now functional. Refer to the
amaroK Wiki for information on script writing.
ADD: Collection-Browser shows a help message in flat-mode when filter is
empty. (BR 97000)
CHG: It is possible to select the Database Engine (SQLite, MySQL) runtime,
without amaroK restart. New Database Engines can be added, they need to
inherit DbConnection and implement its' virtual methods (see
SqliteConnection and MySqlConnection).
CHG: New amaroK icon "Blue Wolf", made by Da-Flow.
FIX: Possible crash when enabling Player-Window. (BR 94668)
VERSION 1.2-beta3:
ADD: Smart Playlists can have a random order or a score weighted random order
(BR 90861)
ADD: Show total length of selected songs in statusbar. (BR 90284)
ADD: Context-Browser now caches the tab widgets. Patch from Matias Costa
<mcc3@alu.um.es>. (BR 95999)
FIX: RAND and REP buttons were always enabled at startup. (BR 95861)
ADD: Implemented "Append Suggestions" functionality. It means that when
enabled, amaroK will append a couple of suggested songs to playlist when
you play a track. This produces a continuous playlist, something similar
to listening to radio.
ADD: Implemented "Play Media..." functionality.
FIX: Playlist-Browser was appending to playlist when clicking "Load". Now it
replaces the current playlist again, as intended.
ADD: Profile for KDELIRC (Remote Controls). Patch by Dirk Ziegelmeier
<dziegel@gmx.de>.
ADD: Remove Duplicates now also removes dead entries from playlist.
FIX: Accept album-dragging from the ContextBrowser. (BR 86020)
FIX: Configure check was missing for the Konqueror Sidebar (depends on
KDE-Base).
FIX: Browser splitter was drawn incorrectly with some styles. (BR 95333)
ADD: DCOP call for relative seek. Patch by Andreas Pfaller. (BR 84989)
CHG: Bumped TagLib dependency to 1.3.1. (1.3 is too damn buggy)
FIX: CTRL-M can show the menubar again after hiding. (BR 94139)
ADD: Support for last.fm streams.
FIX: amaroK icon shows correctly in window decoration under GNOME.
ADD: Support for ID3v2 cover images. (Thanks to M. Thiesen!) (BR 88492)
ADD: DCOP calls for the status of Random Mode, Repeat Playlist and Repeat
Track.
ADD: DCOP call to return the sample rate.
ADD: DCOP call to return the track number. (BR 94825)
FIX: GStreamer-engine provides better scope synchronisation.
ADD: Save current track position and play queue on exit. (BR 90379)
FIX: Fix Directory column on playlist, show absolute directory path instead of
empty string. (BR 90361)
ADD: DCOP call to scan your collection. (BR 84621)
FIX: When an engine fails to load, respect the rank while choosing the next
engine.
VERSION 1.2-beta2:
FIX: Classic amaroK theme looks better.
ADD: Context Browser has CSS styling.
FIX: Cover fetching improvements/fixes.
ADD: Last played: yesterday, etc. in ContextBrowser.
FIX: Big speedup for PlaylistLoader, when adding many items.
ADD: Show songs you once played, but didn't play for the longest time on
ContextBrowser's Home-page. (least played) (BR 89479)
FIX: Don't crash on song switch, when there's only one visible playlist item
and repeat-list is activated. (BR 94030)
CHG: Add and queue tracks after the current track. (BR 94121)
ADD: DCOP call to raise the equalizer configuration dialog.
ADD: Konqueror sidebar to view playing info and control amaroK.
ADD: DCOP call to clear the playlist. (BR 90149)
ADD: DCOP call to enable/disable the equalizer.
ADD: DCOP call to return the score of the currently playing track.
ADD: Audioscrobbler submit queue stored on disk. Tracks that are listened when
offline will be available for submitting later.
CHG: "Start Scan" button was renamed to "Update". Now it starts an incremental
scan instead of a full rescan.
FIX: Lyrics parsing failed for certain songs. (BR 94269)
ADD: xine-engine saves config, and implements crossfade, bug fixed too.
ADD: Player-Window can also show the BlockAnalyzer.
CHG: Run incremental scanning once a minute instead of every 30 seconds.
FIX: When collection scanning was interrupted with Cancel, incremental
scanning didn't work any longer.
CHG: Handle incremental file scanning in a thread. Now the GUI doesn't get
blocked every 30 seconds, anymore. (BR 93564)
ADD: CollectionBrowser now offers two operation modes:
The classical TreeView and a new FlatView (like the WinAmp Library).
FIX: Caching of local cover images was broken for non-unique filenames.
(BR 94068)
FIX: "Visualizations" menu entry was always disabled.
FIX: Play button was sometimes stuck in disabled state.
FIX: OSD was showing "%artist - %track" instead of "%artist - %title".
FIX: Forward command line option --engine to amarokapp.
FIX: CoverFetcher was always looking for "album - album".
VERSION 1.2-beta1:
ADD: Full support for Audioscrobbler, including submission of tracks.
FIX: Arts engine resumes from position when session is restored.
ADD: Vorbis stream metadata support (GStreamer-engine). (BR 82378)
ADD: Cover image and lyric fetchers include filters for common extensions,
such as (Disc 1). (BR 90630)
ADD: Ability to choose from four different Amazon locales. (BR 90664)
ADD: OSD now draws gradient instead of solid colour.
ADD: 'Stop after current song' functionality. (BR 88652)
FIX: Queue function from context/collection browsers actually properly queues
tracks. (BR 90319)
ADD: MySQL database support. Patch by Andreas Mair <am_ml@linogate.com>.
Please refer to mailing list for detailed instructions.
ADD: Metadata history for streams in Context-Browser. (BR 89839)
ADD: Command line option --engine.
ADD: OSD text is now configurable, and it displays the album cover.
FIX: Remote folders are read recursively when dropped on the playlist.
FIX: Audiocd protocol in filebrowser had empty folders.
ADD: Cache system for current-track animation in playlist. Reduces CPU load
when the playlist is visible.
ADD: 10-band IIR equalizer for GStreamer and xine engines.
FIX: The background gradient effect in Context-Browser is now much faster. The
gradient also looks nicer. (BR 91276)
FIX: Password-protected streams did not work correctly. (BR 91184). Patch by
<javapojken@yahoo.se>.
ADD: NMM-engine was rewritten and updated for the latest NMM release. Supports
audio and video playback.
ADD: Cover-Manager supports drag-and-drop.
ADD: Tags are now read from the Collection database if they are already
stored. This speeds up adding items to the playlist. (BR 90137)
ADD: Context-browser shows "Suggested Tracks", utilizing audioscrobbler.
FIX: Configure does no longer print "Good - Configure has finished" when a
dependency is missing.
ADD: Intelligent automatic resize for playlist columns
ADD: Shaded current-track marker in playlist.
ADD: Automatic song lyrics display.
CHG: Internal SQLite upgraded to 3.0.8.
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.
XXX Too much dependencies are thrown in there: create "plugins" packages
or use PKG_OPTIONS framework?
markd
abs
wiz
dillo
xtraeme
drochner
joerg
seb