While the Amarok team has been working on _a lot_ of cool new stuff for 2.2 we havn’t forgotten about 2.1. It’s time for 2.1.1, the first (and likely last) maintenance release of the 2.1 series. Enjoy! 🙂
We will also be at Linuxtag next week in Berlin with the rest of KDE and the Kubuntu crowd. If you are around say hello. We have a few free tickets left.
Two weeks have passed since I announced round 2 and I am very happy with the result. The Amarok page improved a lot and is ready for the release of Amarok 2.1. Many thanks go to Karthikp, the winner of round 2! Awesome work! You definitely get a beer when we meet.
So who is next? Plasma! A few days ago the Plasma page on UserBase was a sorry little copy of the Plasma FAQ. Einar moved the FAQ already and was kind enough to start the new Plasma page. Now it needs more people to fill the missing spots. This is where you come in! Go to UserBase, get an account (non-OpenID login now possible as well thanks to danimo \o/) and start on either the main Plasma page or updating the FAQ where needed. This is a good way to get started with contributing to KDE and at the same time helping fellow users. As in previous rounds a beer (or similar drink of your choosing) is waiting for the winner at Akademy or another event.
If you have questions please join us on IRC in #plasma on freenode.
I will announce the winner in 2 weeks as well as the next project to get some love. Which one would you like to work on next?
Due to not so perfectly alligned release cycles, not wanting to ship a beta version and a few more good reasons Kubuntu Jaunty was released with Amarok 2.0.2. This version is still missing a few features that some users consider vital. We have made huge improvements in Amarok 2.1 beta 1, our latest release, and of course more improvements have been made since then in SVN.
Improvements and features include but are not limited to:
For more please read the 2.1 beta 1 release notes.
So for everyone who wants to have some of the most loved features back: you can upgrade to Amarok 2.1 beta 1 with packages from the kubuntu-experimental PPA. Be aware that this PPA contains very experimental stuff that can break your system from time to time so you might want to consider deactivating the repository after you installed Amarok.
Please don’t forget to report bugs you find in the beta version at bugs.kde.org so we have a chance to fix them for the final version.
Amarok 2.0.1.1, codenamed Magellan, has been released. It includes many new goodies as well as a security fix. Rejoice as queueing, “stop after current track”, and filtering and searching in the playlist are back.
Read the release notes and get it while it’s hot 😉
A few of you might have read about Amarok 2 requiering the user to set up a MySQL server. This is not true. For more information please read this blog entry.
I want a pony!
We are happy to finally get our baby out of the door. Read the release announcement here: http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.0, check abby’s screenshot tour and help us spread the word on digg, Twitter, your blog and wherever else you hang around 🙂 This is just the beginning of a long journey. Join us on our way and party with us!
Amarok 2.0 beta 3 has been released. Check out the release announcement, digg it and get it while it’s hot! Lot’s of nice improvements, bugfixes and new stuff. This is going to be the last beta release if no major problems arise. Amarok 2.0 final is getting nearer every day \o/
Some time ago I wrote about the LibriVox script in Amarok. It has been ported now and works like a charm.
For those who don’t know how the script came to be: Hanno Svoboda reported a bug on bugs.kde.org saying that he would like to have LibriVox integrated in Amarok. We asked if there is a nice API we can use and Hanno got in touch with the LibriVox developers to find out. After some emails and chats everything we needed was provided and Nikolaj sat down to code the script for the service in a very short time and it is now one of our nicest scripted services. All of this was just a matter of a few days and getting the right people to work together.
Hanno has been so kind to do a short video. Please enjoy and thanks to Hanno for the video and for bringing this wonderful service to our attention in the first place.
This should show you two things:
1) Is is really easy to integrate a service into Amarok 2.
2) If you have great ideas and help us realize them amazing things can happen.
The Amarok team is proud to announce the first beta of Amarok 2.0, codenamed Nerrivik.
Please digg it and enjoy the release notes.
If you want to meet some KDE folks, want to see KDE 4.1 in action or if you have questions about KDE FrOSCon in St. Augustin is the place to be this weekend.
Come and say hello at the KDE/Amarok booth and in our dev-room.
We have interesting talks for everyone in our dev room:
Saturday:
11:15 KDE Edu (Frederik Gladhorn)
16:30 KDE Community – How to get involved (Alexandra Leisse and Lydia Pintscher)
Sunday:
11:15 Amarok 2 (Sven Krohlas and Lydia Pintscher)
15:15 Kubuntu – A KDE desktop (Marcus Czeslinski)
16:30 KDE Grill – Ask questions about KDE you always wanted us to answer (KDE dream team ;-))
And on Saturday 15:15 Sebastian Kügler will talk about KDE 4.1 in his talk “Don’t look back” in the main track.
Hope to see you there.
Oh btw: Last year’s social event = best social event of 2007. Let’s see if they can beat Akademy this year 😉