[dot] amaroK Live 1.3 Released with Open Music

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From: the roKymotion team <sitter.harald at gmail.com>
Dept: make-a-bikini-for-your-girlfriend
Date: Monday03/Oct/2005, @16:48

amaroK Live 1.3 Released with Open Music
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   The amaroK [http://amarok.kde.org] team would like to announce the
immediate release of version 1.3 of the innovative amaroK Live CD
[http://amaroklive.com]. This complete operating system is a unique
collaboration between Free Software and Open Music that runs entirely
from a single CD.  The live CD comes with a fully functional copy of the
amaroK music player bundled with tracks from Magnatune
[http://magnatune.com], the German artists Paniq [http://www.paniq.de] &
Snooze [http://www.arje.de/] and the Norwegian performer Ugress
[http://www.ugress.com].
    amaroK Live 1.3
     Based upon the KDE-centric PCLinuxOS [http://pclinuxos.org], amaroK
Live is not a complete Live CD distribution as much as it is a
demonstration of an extremely cool audio player.  This combination
reinforces the concept that amaroK Live 1.3 is the perfect collaboration
between Free Software and Free Music (free as in freedom). Music
selections on the CD span many genres, from Electronica to Rock, Jazz
and Classical.

     The tracks contributed by Magnatune are graciously licensed to us
under the attribution/non-commercial/share-alike (by-nc-sa) version of
the Creative Commons license, so these specific music tracks are both
free in the sense of freedom and free in the sense of no cost. Magnatune
is a revolutionary concept founded in 2003 as an independent, online
record label that hand selects its own artists, sells its catalogue of
music through online downloads and print-on-demand CDs and licenses
music for commercial and non-commercial use.

     The other tracks found on the CD can also be legally shared for
non-commercial purposes.

     Screenshots of amaroK Live 1.3 can be found on the  amaroK Live
website [http://amaroklive.com/index.php?page_id=113&language=en].

     About Magnatune: Founded in 2003, Magnatune is an independent,
online record label that hand selects its own artists, sells its
catalogue of music through online downloads and print-on-demand CDs and
also licenses music for commercial and non-commercial use.

     Based on the principle that "We are not evil," the company offers
fair-trade music to consumers by equally sharing all revenue from the
sale of albums with artists and allowing artists to retain full rights
to their music. All music can be previewed free of charge with a "try
before you buy" philosophy. Customers can also choose how much they want
to pay for the music with pricing ranging from $5-18 for a downloadable
album or print-on-demand CD.

     About amaroK: amaroK is a music player for KDE with an intuitive
interface. amaroK makes playing the music you love easier than ever
before - and looks good doing it. It is Free Software, licensed under
the GNU General Public License and is available for most GNU/Linux
distributions.

     Since amaroK can use many different engines to decode and output,
it can be used in just about any desktop environment.  Xine is the
default engine, but Arts, GStreamer and Real/HelixPlayer are all
options, including the Network Multimedia framework (NMM).

     CD Download: HTTP:
http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/pub/amarok/amarok_live-1.3 BitTorrent:
http://aurora.gkmweb.com:6969 [http://aurora.gkmweb.com:6969]