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The Amarok team, in a brief pause from the frantic coding marathon towards the final release, is very pleased to bring you Nujalik, Beta 2 of Amarok 2.0. This release comes with a substantial changelog since Beta 1 and almost all parts of Amarok have ... [More] received attention. Many bugs and crashes have been fixed and a few new features have snuck in as well. As Amarok 2.0 gets closer to release, we have seen a significant increase in number of contributors providing patches and filing bug reports. This has catapulted the development pace into never before seen rates! Help us make Amarok 2.0 even better by testing, reporting bugs or contributing patches. md5sum: 658f8a388d87fad83d8ef1c8ae59e292 Also, please don't forget to support Amarok during Roktober 2008. Weiterlesen [Less]

Ein weiteres Jahr ist vergangen und das Amarok-Team möchte mit seinen Fans feiern: Es ist wieder Roktober! Wie immer um diese Zeit lassen wir das vergangene Jahr Revue passieren und bitten euch um Unterstützung für das kommende Jahr. Eure Spenden ... [More] in Form von Zeit oder Geld machen es erst möglich, dass ein ein so großartiger Audioplayer wie Amarok enstehen kann. Unser Ziel für diesen Roktober ist es, 10.000€ zu sammeln. Das Ziel ist sehr hoch, aber Kosten steigen und unsere Pläne werden immer komplexer. Wie in den letzten Jahren kommt ihr für jede 10 Euro Spende in den Verlosungstopf um einen iaudio7. Dieses Jahr wird es zwei große Preise und auch coole T-Shirts für vier weitere Plätze geben. Wie immer könnt ihr über Paypal an [email protected] spenden. Wir arbeiten an Möglichkeiten für normale Banküberweisungen und hoffen, dies Anfang nächster Woche eingerichtet zu haben. Wer lieber Schecks versendet, wendet sich an [email protected] für weitere Informationen und die Postadresse. Weiterlesen [Less]

The Amarok team is proud to announce the first beta version of Amarok 2, codenamed Nerrivik, released after days of hard work during this year's Akademy in Belgium. It contains a considerable amount of improvements over the previous alpha versions ... [More] , bringing Amarok one step closer to the 2.0 release.Thanks again for sending bug reports, patches and giving feedback. Amarok's development is heading towards 2.0 with an incredible rate, let's keep it that way!Please be aware that the database scheme changed since alpha 2 and you will need to delete collection.db in Amarok's settings folder (often in ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok or ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok) if you have used any previous version of Amarok 2.The highlights of this first beta version are the scripting interface, AFT, new artwork and of course many bugfixes. The scripting interface has matured and script authors are encouraged to explore the new possibilities QtScript offers. The scripting interface might still change but those changes will be minor. Amarok File Tracking (AFT) helps you keep your playcounts, ratings and a lot more file related information that Amarok keeps in its database, even if you move files around in your file system. It has now been brought back to Amarok 2 and will be improved even more in future releases. To find out more about AFT you can read Jeff Mitchell's blogentry about it. The interface was improved a lot by new artwork provided by Nuno Pinheiro and a new splash screen by Wade Olson. based on a photo by Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Wolves, md5sum: 823fcaea9450110bc9ea9fceba674b4e 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) Packages are available through your package manager for most Linux distributions and trough the KDE-on-Windows installer on Windows.If you want to help us get Amarok 2.0 ready for final release drop by in #amarok or #rokymotion on freenode. We will appreciate any kind of help from translating, documentation writing through writing code and promoting.Enjoy beta 1 and watch as the wolf is growing :-) The Amarok 2 FAQ addresses some of the questions you might have about Amarok 2. [Less]

Photo by jetboy2006,licensed under by-nc 2.0 News from the "Unscheduled releases"-department: This morning we got news about a possible security issue with local, untrusted users that has ... [More] now, just a few hours later, been fixed. For more information about it see Secunia Advisory #SA31418. Thanks to Google Alerts for notifying us about this vulnerability. We encourage all users of Amarok 1.4.x, especially if you are using the integrated Magnatune service, to upgrade as soon as possible. Meanwhile many team members are at Akademy to discuss new developments and work to get closer to Amarok 2.0. Have a look at the blogs to see what's happening. And maybe we're gonna see you in a week at FrOSCon in St. Augustin, Germany? [Less]

The Amarok team is proud to announce the second alpha version of Amarok 2, codenamed Aulanerk. We have spent many sleepless nights resolving issues and polishing features since the first alpha was released. It wasn't just for fun though ;-) We want ... [More] the 2.0 release to be the best ever. A big thank you to everyone who helped us by reporting bugs, sending patches and giving useful feedback. Without you we would not have come this far in the short time since the first alpha! Keep it coming. It is also nice to see that many people enjoy the result of our work already and can see where we want to go with Amarok 2. Thanks for all the kind reviews of alpha 1. It's always a pleasure to read something like that. Photo copyright 2007 by Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Wolves, licensed under by-nc-nd 2.0 md5sum: acf43672687a5f261ce36d668338a4c1 Here are some of the changes we made since alpha 1: FEATURES: * New interface for extracting tags from filenames, now fully working * Context view applet to view albums (BR 164005) * Automatic detection of non-UTF-8 charsets for metadata * Dynamic/Biased playlists improvements * QtBindings support for the scripts CHANGES: * Collection scanner now picks up bmp images too. (BR 167122) * Update the DBus APIs * Update the QtScript APIs * Current track applet added to the Context View on startup * No more applets flashing between track changes * Current track applet now shows a message when no track is being played BUGFIXES: * Correctly save custom external browser setting (BR 166979) * Use default KDE crash handler again * Fix crash when switching tracks in the playlist. (BR 166964) * Fix crash when trying to download a playlist from unreachable server * Script Manager now automatically restarts scripts on next startup * Correctly handle albums with the same name (BR 164173) * Various bugfixes for the systray tooltip * In the Wikipedia applet scrolling works properly now * Context menu separators are no longer shown as empty items * Make the filebrowser filter instantaneously display results for files * Add a path separator if required when constructing relative urls from M3U playlists (BR 166346) * Rescan collection if the version is higher than we currently use (downgrades) (BR 142712) * Play the first track in the playlist if there is no active track (BR 166336) * Do not use 100% cpu in the cover manager when changing view modes (BR 164112) * Fix build on Debian. Patch by David Palacio (BR 166321) * Fix bug with selection getting stuck in collection browser when selecting multiple items when dragging over them (BR 164960) * Fix crash when removing collapsed album from the playlist. (BR 163653) * Mp3tunes would load for users who had never used it before and prompt them with an annoying login box (BR 166332) * Random album playback mode implemented (BR 164623) * Fix rendering glitches when double clicking tracks in dynamic mode (BR 166705) * Make the rating widget on the current track hideable Development is at full speed and we are trying to get Amarok 2.0 final ready for release soon. If you want to help us now is the perfect time to do so. We need more contributors, especially MacOS and Windows developers. Drop by in #amarok or #rokymotion on freenode. We will appreciate any kind of help from translating, documentation writing through developing and promoting. Come and join us! Enjoy alpha 2 and watch as the wolf is growing :-)Please be aware that this is alpha stage software. Bugs and unfinished features are to be expected. The Amarok 2 FAQ addresses some of the questions you might have about Amarok 2. [Less]

The Amarok Team is proud to present the first official alpha release, codename Malina, of the upcoming Amarok 2 series. Features available in this release outline the feature set of Amarok 2.0 while making a starting point in the Amarok 2 journey. ... [More] The wolf is growing ;-) Photo copyright 2007 by Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Wolves, licensed under by-nc-nd 2.0 md5sum: 293b1c6509f604f1a1e84b3fca5822ca Some of the highlights of the new alpha include: New fascinating look: With the use of vector graphics, artwork looks crispier than ever, while color scheme independence guarantees it'll look gorgeous no matter what. Innovative user interface: Don't miss several UI innovations like the Plasma powered Context View, new space efficient playlist, and amazing PopUp Dropper! The new Context View allows you to show all the context information you care about. We expect a lot of Plasmoids to be provided by the community in the first months after the release of Amarok 2. PopUp Dropper lets you do different things with your files by simply dragging them to the context view and dropping them on the appropriate area. Append songs to the playlist, copy songs to your local collection, transfer them to your mobile device and edit their tags are just some of the operations PopUp Dropper offers. Almighty Internet service framework: Seamlessly integrate online music repositories and web services into your musical experience. With online sources like Magnatune, Last.fm, Jamendo, Ampache and MP3tunes you'll be supplied with music 24/7. Powerful scripting: The new scripting interface is fully based on Qt technology. The APIs are being redesigned, so script authors are asked to wait at least for the first beta release before porting their scripts. Dynamic and new Biased playlists: Let Amarok choose the music for you. In this alpha you will see the foundations of the new Biased playlists which in the future will let you specify dynamic playlist for any occasion. Mobile devices support: We are working hard to make sure you'll easily and efficiently access music on your media devices within Amarok, and integrate it with your music collection. Cross platform: This Alpha release lays the groundwork for a release on all major platforms. Future releases will feature Linux, Windows and MacOS versions. Don't wait any longer! Grab your copy of Amarok Alpha 1 and help us polish it into a best release so far! Any kind of help is highly appreciated: from patches and bugfixes, through testing and bugreports, to documentation writing, translating and promotion. Oh, and we like artists too! Check out our Jobs page, or drop by in #amarok on Freenode. Please be aware that this is alpha stage software. Bugs and unfinished features are to be expected. All of the features mentioned above still need work. The Amarok 2 FAQ addresses some of the questions you might have about Amarok 2.   [Less]

Remember last year? We asked you to send us your best cocktail recipes to win free entrance to LinuxTag in Berlin. It seems all our developers survived trying your creations and we are pretty sure some of you tested them, too. So, a year has passed ... [More] , the next LinuxTag is going to start in less than two weeks and we again have some eTickets to give away! 15 tickets to be precise and maybe, if you work hard, we might get some more. This time send us your best "Amarok Everywhere" photos. Talk to the Klingon High Council about their boring logo, use your "laser" to project a howling wolf onto the moon or... do whatever crazy idea comes to your mind. But beware: starting a war with the Klingon Empire leads to instant disqualification. You can send the pictures to our promo mailing list (amarok-promo 'ätt' kde.org) or give us a link to them in the comments (make sure you add a valid email address). Deadline is Wednesday, 21st May, 0:00 UTC. As last year we will have a booth and talk there, so it's the perfect opportunity to have a look at our latest developments. [Less]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you - the Neon! Neon is our shiny new nightly builds service for Amarok. Neon makes it easy to follow development of Amarok by regularly providing packages for you to install. It is set up to be usable alongside your ... [More] stable version. Even though we try to keep your data secure, you should be aware that Neon is providing mostly unreleased and untested software, which might as well eat your system. Neon is intended to be used by everyone who wants to help us find bugs, keep track of development, join development or just wants to live on the bleeding edge. It is not intended to be used instead of a stable and full featured Amarok. We started this service with packages for Amarok 2 for Kubuntu but packages for openSUSE will follow soon and we hope more distributions will join.   To install it on Kubuntu Hardy add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main check for updates, install amarok-nightly and enjoy. Please be aware that Amarok 2 is still in heavy development and therefore it is very likely that you will encounter bugs, things that are not finished and features that will change before we release Amarok 2.0. We welcome everyone to send patches and help us get Amarok 2 ready soon. If you want to stay up to date on all things Neon please subscribe to the dedicated mailinglist. Availability of packages for other distributions will be announced there and on the Project Neon wiki page. When reporting bugs please consider that for now we only accept bug reports for bugs that are not obvious and are easy to reproduce or have a useful backtrace. Of course we like bugs with attached patches the most ;-) [Less]

Foto-Copyright 2008 bei Maximilian Fellner, lizenziert unter by-nc-nd 2.0 ... [More] Wir, das Amarok-Team sind zwar zur Zeit beschäftig Amarok 2 zu entwickeln, aber die Nutzer von Amarok 1.4 sind nicht vergessen: Es gibt eine neue fehlerbereinigte Version der Fast Forward 1.4 Serie. Amazon hat uns darüber informiert, dass es eine Änderungen in ihrem System gab, welche Auswirkungen auf Amarok's Cover-Download-Funktion hat. Wir haben die notwendigen Teile in Amarok angepasst, um sicher zu stellen, dass du auch weiterhin Alben-Covers nach Lust und Laune herunterladen kannst. Weiterhin wurden alle Übersetzungen verbessert und mehrere kleine Fehler wurden behoben. Nach einigen Anlaufschwierigkeiten meinte Jeff Mitchell, einer der Amarok Entwickler, bezüglich des zusätzlichen .1: "Wir sind jetzt sicher, dass wir alle Fehler in 1.4.9 behoben haben" Viel Spaß mit Amarok 1.4.9.1 Fast Forward. [Less]

Students, looking for a resume-building, educational, flexible coding opportunity this summer? Consider applying for Amarok's Google Summer of Code. This year Amarok is being guaranteed 5 slots out of KDE's pool - and last year Amarok only had 4 ... [More] applicants. So if you put together a good proposal and work with us to refine it into a strong proposal there's a very good chance you'll be picked to spend your summer coding for Amarok and earn a $4500 stipend. Read on for details on how to apply and be accepted. Weiterlesen [Less]