Amarok 是 Linux/Unix 平台下十分出众的音乐播放器.在发布了Alpha2后,开发人员直接公布了Beta1,Amarok 2 中已实现的新功能包括:
* 更为协调的播放列表;
* 艺术家能够与更多的流派关联;
* 可以使用礼品卡代替信用卡从 Magnatune 购买音乐;
* 专辑选择器支持 OpenGL;
* 中间最大的区域切换为使用 Plasma,即 KDE 4 中的新桌面及 Widget 技术;
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Features
- Inline editing of tracks in the Collection is now possible.
- Album moves can be undone
- Grouped albums can be moved in the playlist by draggin the album header
- Track moves in the playlist can now be undone
- Gapless playback.
- New "fuzzy" bias type, which matches values loosely.
- Collection Setup automatically expands to show selected directories. ()
- Tag editing and file deletion for MTP devices
- Add toolbox to context view
- Allow selecting multiple playlist items.
- Implement "Move to collection" functionality in file browser.
- Saving/loading of biased playlists.
- Improved script console
- Set items in directory selector to partially checked when relevant. patch by Sebastian Trueg
- Album is now added to the playlist when clicked in Albums applet.
- Trigger play/pause when middle-clicking systray icon. ()
- New start flag --multipleinstances allows to run multiple instances of Amarok.
- Full cover support for Nepomuk collection
- Search local collection for albums to show in the album applet when playing non local content
- Context view state is saved on exit and restored on start up.
- New functions available to the scripting interface, under Amarok.Info.
Changes
- New filename scheme widget in the Organize Collection dialog.
- New laylout of the main toolbar using the new graphics.
- Greatly reduced memory usage when using dynamic playlists.
- Reworked layout and more intuitive interface in the Guess Tags from Filenames dialog.
- New artwork by Nuno Pinheiro
- Better zooming animation in the context view
- Better usage of the available space in the context view.
- Show url in the playlist if track has no name. patch by Edward Hades
Bugfixes
- Fix crash when dragging media from an external source (or the file browser) to the playlist ()
- Fix crash when opening the setting dialog ()
- Many fixes to the behavior of the playlist when dragging things around.
- Don't pop up multiple cover search dialogs when cancelling search in the Cover Manager ()
- Amarok would not respect the user's changes in the cover search dialog.
- Amarok would submit tracks to lastfm reguardless of whether the user chose to enable scrobbling.
- OSD translucency works now. ()
- Use name based sorting of tracks without a track number (fixes sorting in shoutcast and cool streams services)
- Don't try to scan the whole $HOME on first startup.
- Don't pop up the OSD after changing Amarok settings. (BR: 168197)
- Fix crash when exiting while collection scan was running. ()
- Automatically re-authenticate connection if the Ampache server has logged us out. ()
- Status bar now allows shrinking main window beyond it's width and does not enlarge main window by itself. Patch by Daniel Molkentin
- Submit tracks to Last.fm also when playing Last.fm Radio. ()
- Check if the file is writable before allowing the tags to be edited in SqlMeta. ( )
- Properly insert items dragged from the collection view. (BR: 166609)
- Don't remove all the tracks in the group when removing the first. (BR: 167251)
- Only increment playcount if we've played more than half of the song. ()
- Added protection against endless looping when a playlist contains only unplayable tracks.
- Missing default playlist does not produce error message now. ()
- Fixed playlist bias drop-down box showing multiple empty and duplicate entries. ()
- Fixed the "Toggle Main Window" shortcut. ()
- Script manager now could stop scripts which use qt bindings.
- Fix crash when calling GetCaps from the DBus Player interface
- Update album applet on track change. ()
Packages are available through your package manager for most Linux distributions and trough the KDE-on-Windows installer on Windows.
If you want to help us get Amarok 2.0 ready for final release drop by in #amarok or #rokymotion on freenode. We will appreciate any kind of help from translating, documentation writing through writing code and promoting.
Enjoy beta 1 and watch as the wolf is growing :-)
The addresses some of the questions you might have about Amarok 2.
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