amaroK 1.3 'Airborne' Released!

[Kevin Foreman]

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Kevin
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Mark Kretschmann wrote:

>The amaroK team announces version 1.3 'Airborne' of the amaroK audio player
>
>The amaroK Development Team is very proud to clear version 1.3 of the popular
>audio player for takeoff. After four months of focused work, we feel that this
>release has again substantially improved on amaroK. We hope you enjoy amaroK
>1.3's greater usability, exciting new features and many bugfixes. 
>
>
>Highlights of amaroK 1.3:
>
>  * Wikipedia artist lookup, a revolutionary feature providing information
>    from the free online encyclopedia. 
>  * Redesigned sidebar, with improved look-and-feel. 
>  * Automatic download of scripts and themes with KNewStuff. 
>  * HelixPlayer engine. 
>  * New Playlist Browser, powerful and easy to use. 
>  * Cue file sheet support. 
>  * Dynamic playlist mode. 
>  * PostgreSQL database support. 
>  * Much extended DCOP scripting interface. 
>  * Multiple analyzer visualizations for the playlist window. 
>  * Editable Smart Playlists.
>  * Podcast support, including live streaming and download capability.
>  * Crossfading for the xine audio backend.
>
>
>ChangeLog since 1.3-beta3:
>
>  FEATURES:
>    * The tyranny of deleting covers every 90 days is over. Instead, amaroK
>      now automatically downloads the covers every 80 days to comply with
>      Amazon.com requirements.
>
>  CHANGES:
>    * Removed 'Apply' button from dynamic config, all config options are now
>      hot! (Automatically applied on alteration)
>    * Minimum score changed from 1 to 0. (BR 107944)
>    * Playlist item lengths now shown with hours when necessary.
>
>  BUGFIXES:
>    * M3U playlists would be broken after editing. (BR 109774)
>    * When there's no artist tag, don't show tons of unrelated songs and
>      albums in Context Browser. (BR 110319)
>    * Advertisements were showing up in Lyrics Tab for some songs.
>    * When editing tags in Playlist Window, only try to write the new tag if
>      it's different from the old one. (BR 110299)
>    * Changes to the score in the Edit Track Information dialog should only be
>      applied after clicking on the "Save and Close" button.
>    * When only the score is changed, amaroK shouldn't complain if the file is
>      read-only. (BR 109054)
>    * Mark/Unmark as compilation wouldn't work with SQLite. (BR 109275)
>    * Album Covers whose name or artist contained "'" wouldn't show up when
>      fetched from Amazon. (BR 109700)
>    * Edit Track Information dialog wouldn't update collection database if
>      filename contained non latin1 characters. Patch by Andrey Yasniy
>      <yasniy at gmail.com> (BR 110030)
>    * SmartPlaylist category created in the PlaylistBrowser once the
>      collection has been built for the first time.
>    * Refresh the context browser as appropriate when editing tags.
>      (BR 108884)
>    * Cover image shown if track has no title.
>    * Statusbar cancel button will terminate a podcast download.
>    * Don't show multiple popup messages when retrieving podcast information.
>    * Don't crash when adding podcasts. (BR 109982)
>    * Tracks with urls containg apostrophes would not cache lyrics.
>    * PostgreSQL compile problem (BR 110033)
>
>
>The amaroK team
>---------------
>
>amaroK is a soundsystem-independent audio-player for *nix. Its interface uses 
>a powerful "browser" metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make 
>the most of your music collection. We have a fast development-cycle and 
>super-happy users. We also provide pensions and other employment-benefits.
>
>"Easily the best media-player for Linux at the moment. Install it now!"
>    - Linux Format Magazine
>
>WWW:  http://amarok.kde.org
>WIKI: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki
>IRC:  irc.freenode.net #amarok & #amarok.de
>MAIL: amarok-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
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>

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