It’s summertime! Can we have your attention nonetheless? We need your testing skills! Yes, you, dear Amarok lovers, we have been working against all odds, heatwaves, rain and thunderstorms, lovely beaches and landscapes to prepare a new version just for you. Trying to fight the hardest bugs, but still adding a few nice new features, our developers have integrated these goodies:
On the database level, you can import labels from older versions and only data for tracks in the collection is imported. We added various filter possibilities for podcasts (by provider or folder group) and the Collection Browser (last played, added, track format or filesize) and also added or corrected a few shortcuts.

Please see the full ChangeLog below and test everything you can. Help us improve Amarok, report your findings and contribute to make Amarok even better!

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We are happy to announce the release of Amarok 2.3.1.

This release brings with it some exciting new features like the Automated Playlist Generator which helps you create playlists based on criteria like song length or file size. This is the start of bringing back the smart playlist feature of Amarok 1 and more.
We have also added two new applets for the Context View. The Upcoming Events applet shows concerts and events that the currently playing artist is participating in and the Similar Artists applet uses the Last.fm database to show similar artist and makes the ones in your collection directly playable.
Cover fetching has seen a lot of improvements and we added support for the new system tray protocol.

The 2.3.1 release also fixes many bugs, both major and minor, and brings with it many other small improvements that overall help to make the Amarok experience even more enjoyable!

Some of the coding on Amarok 2.3.1 was done in the beautiful town of Randa in Switzerland and on the way to and from there. We've had a very enjoyable sprint together with the KDE Edu team there. Check out the wiki page for links to blog entries and pictures.

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We're also happy to have a booth again at Linuxtag taking place from 9. to 12. June in Berlin, Germany. We have 15 free tickets to give away for all 4 days! If you want one of them let us know in the comments and don't forget to leave your email address. If you'll be there don't forget to drop by and say hello at the booth! :)

Continuing with our rapid development process, only a few weeks after the successful 2.3.0 release we present Amarok 2.3.1 beta 1. Not only does this release provide many bug fixes, but we even added a number of exciting new features, such as the powerful Automated Playlist Generator, a Similar Artists and Upcoming Events applet, and support for the new system tray of KDE SC 4.4. Additionally a lot of performance optimization was done in several areas. The Playlist became significantly faster, especially with filtering a large amount of items. Also, cover image fetching was enhanced and is now more reliable and effective.

We encourage our users to test this release and provide feedback. The usual warnings apply: this is a beta release and there can be rough corners. However, overall it is quite usable, and your feedback can help us making an even better 2.3.1 release :)

Join us and rediscover your music!