Amarok 2.3.2 beta 1 released

Rick W. Chen stuffcorpse at archlinux.us
Wed Aug 18 05:18:55 UTC 2010


On 18 Aug 2010 06:05 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger:
> Am Dienstag, 17. August 2010 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
> > Heya folks :)
> 
> Heya back.
> 
> > Amarok 2.3.2 beta 1, codename Sentinel, has been released. You can
> > find more information at
> > http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.3.2/beta/1.
> > Please help us test this beta release to make sure 2.3.2 is an
> > excellent release.
> 
> There are loads of bugs at the moment which considerably handicap usage of 
> Amarok, especially in the area of navigating through one’s content (local 
> collection and podcasts). Currently there are a number of things that are 
> actually quite nasty. :-(
> 
> Of course I mostly “rant” about the stuff which I reported/commented on, as 
> those are the things that I encountered myself and thus know about. ;-)
> I’ve had it before that I encountered bugs only in my own (borked) KDE setup, 
> so nowadays I usually try to reproduce them with a fresh user account.
> 
> - podcast tree collapses if download status of an episode changes (245621)
>   Was reported as works for me by one replier, but what about the other people
>   here?
> - effect of podcast episode’s context menu actions are nigh unpredictable
>   (described in 246546)
> 
> Things I couldn’t find reports for on the first try (I’ll look on with 
> different keywords and subsequently file if necessary):
> - when removing a podcast subscription, I get asked about removing it several
>   times, sometimes those questions also involve other subscriptions
> 
> and most importantly:
>   the collection cannot be expanded in double-click mode, instead it is added
>   to the playlist (which takes lots of time if you have +34000 titles in it)
>   This is especially annoying because sometimes the collection is collapsed by
>   default, so there is no way to actually see anything of it.

I'll be looking at fixing these in the coming weeks.

-- 
    Rick



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