Michaels Blog

To be honest Amarok 2.0(.0.0), was excitingly new and had some improvements over 1.4 (well, actually the only one I recall atm is the fact that you’re able to skip back and forward in a random playlist - but hey! )

But all in all it was hardly a match for the solid Amarok 1.4 (ah.. see some parallels? kde 3.5 < -> kde 4.0), there has been an some small update already, and we’re now at 2.0.1.1 (the latest included a security fix, so update it!).

One thing that bugged me was the broken multi-file-editing-dialog and the missing iPodmedia-player-support.

As an Ex-Gentoo there’s only one thing to do: Reach out for the bleeding edge and get a copy of the latest development branch. (Sidenote Amarok will soon switch from svn to git and be a test-case for the rest of the KDE project)

What can I say?
As always the future looks so bright:
- “Media-Player-Applet” works and is able to transfer tracks to my sisters iPod nano of the latest generation (4th?)
- Editing several files at once works (so far..)
- Bookmark feature (with some additions this will be very nice for audio book listeners)
- As I see it, the “Widget”-View has changed, there are not 4 displays anymore but instead only a single one with a clickable list of used widgets