Today the Amarok project releases Narwhal, the release candidate of the upcoming Amarok 2.0.
The changes since Beta 3 focus mostly on fixing bugs, as we are in a fairly hard feature-freeze to give us time to polish the final product. However, this didn't stop us from adding a few nice new things:
- Users' Recommended radio is now shown in the Last.Fm Service.
- Playlist browser items can be deleted and renamed using the keyboard.
- Basic and Advanced view when editing a filename scheme are synchronized.
- Added delete button to Advanced view for defining a filename scheme.
- Importer for iTunes libraries now allows you to import your statistics from iTunes.
- The settings dialog now remembers the page that was last used.
- Track information can be edited from the file browser.
In addition, there are the following changes:
- User playlists added from files are now updated on collection rescans, so any changes in the file is reflected in the SQL playlist.
- Layout refactoring in the Organize Collection dialog.
- Enabled Last.fm scrobbling by default when Last.fm login is supplied.
- "Show active track" has been moved from the playlist context menu to the playlist toolbar
- The video and Last.fm applet have been removed for now as they are not ready for final release. They will be readded in later releases.
There are, of course, a ton of bugfixes. See the full ChangeLog further below for all the goodies.
A lot of great new scripts have shown up on kde-apps.org. Give them a try and enjoy.
Packages are available through your distributions package manager, the KDE-on-Windows installer and from the KDE-on-Mac website. Additionally the tarball can be downloaded here:
md5sum: 410863050e5de95df82106cc9dfe486a
Has your favourite Amarok 1.4 feature not been added to 2.0 yet, or perhaps something you read about on someone's blog has not yet shown up? Not to worry -- we've got a large number of things on our plate waiting to go once 2.0 is out the door. So expect to see lots of new, great things being added in short order, plus the return of some old favourites. Have a look at the
Amarok 2 FAQ to find answers to the most common questions about Amarok 2.