Amarok is a sound system-independent audio-player for Unix. Its interface uses a powerful "browser" metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection.
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There are many bugfixes, and key new features include Amazon integral and automatic cover downloads, play-statistics gathering for the context browser, and configuration for which audiosink and device to use for the audio-playback engine.
Highlights of this release include the new
"Context Browser" (which provides useful
information and cover images for the currently
playing music), the rewritten handbook, and the
polished playlist interface, with a refined look.
Also, there have been important bugfixes to the
stream radio handling.
This release incorporates many bugfixes, performance improvements, and feature enhancements. It increases the speed of the music collection database and reduces user interface latency by implementing multi-threading. It also embeds the SQLite library, and significantly improves overall stability.
Major new features include a plugin framework and
the extended support for new multimedia systems
like GStreamer and NMM. Also, there is now support
for XMMS visualizations plugins, including both
OpenGL and 2D graphics. A new database powered
music manager combines amaroK's powerful playlist
handling with a Rhythmbox-like approach. Another
new module, the "Search Browser", aids in quickly
locating titles on the harddisk. A revamped
toolbar improves the user interface greatly,
adding numerous shortcuts to frequently used
features.
This major new version features a largely rewritten audio engine, which can work with multiple audio systems, like aRts and GStreamer. It also adds a new, comfortable file browser, support for tag-editing, and an on screen display. Another new feature is the slick 3D visualization module which uses OpenGL. Invoking amaroK with command line arguments has been made very fast by use of an application loader concept. There have been numerous performance improvements, bugfixes, and GUI updates.
