Amarok 2.5 "Earth Moving" released
20 Dec 2011 7:00am GMT Up North, frost sparkles in the morning sunshine, while the Southern climes head into spring. All over the world, the Amarok team proudly presents Amarok 2.5, the most advanced release yet. Some of the features we are happy about: GPodder.net podcast synchronization. Re-written USB Mass Storage support. The Windows version of Amarok is now officially declared stable. Many bugfixes to the iPod plugin, thanks to Matěj Laitl. An integrated Amazon MP3 store. This major feature is the work of...
Amarok 2.5 Beta 1
6 Nov 2011 11:01pm GMT The Amarok team presents the first beta for the 2.5 release. Please test as much as possible so the final release, scheduled 2 weeks from now, will be as bug-free as possible. Amarok 2.5 brings you the following major features: Re-written USB Mass Storage support. Many bugfixes to the iPod plugin, thanks to Matěj Laitl. An integrated Amazon MP3 store. This major feature is the work of our very own web-entrepreneurs Sven and Justus. If you have any icon/artwork skills: we need your...
Roktober 2011 - The Future of Amarok is Near
10 Oct 2011 7:24am GMT Here it is again: October in all of its glory! Beautiful Autumn for some, and Spring flowers Down Under. As we wind down 2011, the team continues to develop and Rok the World! In the last twelve months, we have made more than 1900 commits, closed over 2120 bugs, released 3 new versions of Amarok, wrote a Amarok Handbook, attended conferences and had a big developer sprint in Switzerland along with much of the KDE Multimedia team. We mentored 2 successful Summer of Code projects and...
Amarok 2.4.3 "Berlin" Released
1 Aug 2011 9:17am GMT Spring is over and summer in full swing for most of the Amarok team, and we’re excited to give you Amarok 2.4.3. We’ve tweaked the visual design a bit, removing the status bar at the bottom, and replacing it with more focused notifications up top, or where they make most sense. You’ll also see some nice new visual effects in the layout as well. Along with the work at the sprint in Randa, we’ve worked on the Dynamic Playlists, and some of the Internet Services. The new...
Amarok 2.4.2 Beta 1 "Nightshade" Released
7 Jul 2011 2:53pm GMT This has been a busy spring and early summer in Amarok-land. Developers met up in Randa, Switzerland and sprinted with a lot of other KDE teams, including KDE Multimedia. Besides lots of good times, much coding progress and bugfixing was done too. You will immediately notice a new streamlined look, and some nice background graphics. The other big change is in dynamic playlists. One we have been waiting for: drag and drop on Collections, to copy or move within Local Music, and also directly...