Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light" released

[Michael Lauzon]

>From the web site:

"Team Amarok is proud to announce Amarok 2.3.0. It contains many
improvements and bugfixes over Amarok 2.2.2 as well as many new
features. Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen
huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices
(including generic MP3 players).

"With large parts of Amarok 2 becoming quite mature, it was also time
to start looking forward again. Therefore, this release also contains
a number of new features of a slightly more experimental nature. These
include a new main toolbar and a rewritten and much simpler file
browser. These parts are brand new and based on user feedback, and
they will change and improve over the next few releases. The old slim
toolbar is still available should you prefer that, but we encourage
you to try out the new toolbar and tell us what you think. The file
browser's look and feel now aligns more closely with the rest of
Amarok with improvements such as breadcrumb navigation, and it is now
focused on being a way to find and play music instead of being a
multi-purpose file manager.

"The context menu of tracks in your playlist now offers a "show in
media sources" option, making it easier to find the same track again
in the collection browser for editing, moving or deleting the file.

"Podcasts have received a configuration dialog allowing you to change
the update interval as well as the location to store new downloaded
episodes. Podcasts and saved playlists are now also grouped by source,
and a merged view is available just like in your local collection -
perfect for those that don't care where their music is coming from but
simply want to listen to it. Now, when a new source of playlists or
podcasts becomes available, Amarok will switch off merged view and
show a collapsible list of your new listening sources.

"The Wikipedia applet now looks better and links have been fixed.
Internal links to other pages on Wikipedia will display in the applet,
and external links open a browser window.

"In short, Team Amarok has been focusing hard on furthering our
long-term goal: making Amarok the best tool for immersing yourself in
music, no matter where it comes from."

http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.3.0


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Sincerely,

Michael Lauzon
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