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Amarok 2.8 "Return To the Origin" Released

Posted by timothy on from the heavily-stimulating dept.

jrepin writes "Music player Amarok 2.8 has been released and it brings a fancy audio analyzer visualization applet, smooth fade-out when pausing music, many UI improvements and visual tweaks including better support for alternate color themes, significantly enhanced MusicBrainz tagger, power management awareness with a pair of new configuration options, and performance optimizations and responsiveness tuning all over Amarok."

2 of 99 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Twice as good as 1.4 by vilanye · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Agree I dealt with it until about a year ago when it started up and immediately grabbed about 600MB of RAM. Ditched it and been happy with Clementine ever since.

    It is a shame that they ruined what was once the best music player you could get.

  2. people still care about visualization? by kcmastrpc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's must be the fact that i'm over 30 and no longer take LSD.