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Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jrepin writes with this quote from an article at The H: "The Amarok development team has released version 2.5 of its open source music player and organizer, code-named 'Earth Moving.' Among the changes highlighted by the developers are re-written support for USB mass storage devices, GPodder.net podcast synchronization and an integrated Amazon MP3 store. The GPodder.net support includes the ability to browse directly from Amarok through the list of recommended podcasts on GPodder.net. Users of playlists on Amarok will find the new playlist functionality in 2.5 such as the ability to use formatted strings in Playlist layout items as prefixes and suffixes, dragging and dropping tracks in an empty area in the list of playlists to create a new playlist, and, in that same empty area, the addition of a new 'create new playlist' action."

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  1. Sticking with Clementine by Meat+Boy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I really loved using Amarok back in the day, before the big UI revamp in the 2.x releases... this unfortunately seems like it hasn't evolved yet into something I'd like to use. I hope that it will find a lot of happy users, as the team is very dedicated, but I'll be sticking with Clementine over here. It's an Amarok 1.4 fork that's been the product of a lot of time, effort and love, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a quality library-based player. Still cross-platform, too! Check it out: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/

  2. Re:Dynamic playlists? by Talavis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't know when it was added to 2.x, but I'ts been working well since at least 2.3, when I started using it.

    Also I don't understand what people are complaining about; in my opinion the 2.x versions work much better than the 1.4 ones ever did (including having enough functionality).

  3. Re:Amarok 1.4.6 For life by pwizard2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try Clementine. It's a bit rough around the edges but it looks like the old Amarok 1.4.

    --
    "It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity."
  4. Re:just to be a wearisome twit... by mhogomchungu · · Score: 4, Informative

    [ink@mtz amarok-2.5.0]$ grep -ir "amazon" * | wc -l
    4661
    [ink@mtz amarok-2.5.0]$

  5. Re:WINAMP! by PwnzerDragoon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have you tried foobar2000? It's simple and minimal like Winamp used to be, but still extensible with plugins if you need functionality not built-in.

  6. Re:Amarok 1.4.6 For life by Simon80 · · Score: 5, Informative

    In case you didn't follow the rest of the thread, I wanted to let you know that you should try Clementine. It's basically Amarok 1.4 ported to Qt, although they're still catching up on some less essential features.

  7. Re:I still use old XMMS that is like Winamp. by bucaneer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try gmusicbrowser. It's the best foobar2000 equivalent for Linux, and its handling of huge libraries is the best I've seen. Very customizable too, it works just as well in minimalistic modes as it does in fullscreen layouts.