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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. Amarok 1.4.6 For life by PenquinCoder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Amarok 2.0 came out and I ditched it. Up until then, it had been for me the best music player I've ever used. The redesign really screwed it up.

    1. Re:Amarok 1.4.6 For life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Why do people who use an old version of an application think everybody wants to hear about how they use and old version?

    2. Re:Amarok 1.4.6 For life by LordLimecat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      you know, that feature in itunes is probably the thing I hate least about itunes. Having my music player figure out what I like to listen to, and then offering it to me right now for $0.99 is something I rather like.

  2. Playlist Editing by blackpaw · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I found the description a bit confusing but it *sounds* like they have improved the playlist creation and editing - that was what pushed me away fro Amarok 2.x, creating and editing a playlist was incredibly awkward involving multiple swicthes between various panes. Not to mention very buggy. The bugs were mostly fixed, but the actual process remained a usability nightmare.

    Will check it again once it reaches the kubuntu repos.

  3. Earth Moving by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That was a terrible album.

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  4. Re:Sticking with Clementine by allcar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Progress is not a smooth curve. You have to take some risks, or else everything stagnates. Don't be such a luddite.