Amarok gets a facelift
After more than a year in development, Amarok, a multipurpose media player with a host of features, has issued release candidate code for version 2. It comes with a completely redesigned interface, and takes advantage of KDE 4's new libraries and interfaces. While you may have a hard time getting used to the new interface, you'll probably come to appreciate all the improvements.
The old version of Amarok was no slouch. Not only was it able to play your music library, it also was able to add music to your MP3 player and look up lyrics or Wikipedia information for currently playing music. It managed your music collection and downloaded cover art for your albums. It was a fast, proficient media player.
But although Amarok was essentially a KDE application, it has never had the same release schedule as KDE, so when KDE 4 was released, there was no matching revision of Amarok to go along with it, and the original Amarok doesn't integrate as well with KDE 4.
Also: The developers behind the open source Amarok audio player have announced the official release of version 2.0, a long-awaited Amarok update for KDE 4. Amarok 2.0 offers a totally new user interface, extensive integration with various web-based audio services, support for a multitude of new KDE 4 technologies, and many other important changes.
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