amaroK 1.2 Released!

[Mark Kretschmann]

The amaroK team is proud to announce version 1.2 of the amaroK audio 
player!

Markey, muesli and mxcl were walking along the bypass the other week when
these aliens came down. And they said, "Dudes! Make us the best media-player
in the world. Ever!" and we looked at each other, and said "What's wrong with
XMMS?" and they said (in unison, which was kinda creepy), "Oh come on dudes!
We're aliens, you try pushing 2 pixel square buttons when you have 70-million
dpi screens!". So they put us in a slave-camp and we managed to get a new
version of amaroK out, but we may have done too good a job because now they
want to keep us here forever. Save us! Someone! 


New in amaroK 1.2:
 
* Full support for Audioscrobbler! Share your music taste with friends on the
  net. 
* Generate dynamic playlists based on Audioscrobbler suggestions. 
* Support for MySQL databases. Now you can keep your Collection on a remote
  computer. 
* The playlist has seen vast speed improvements. 
* 10-band graphic Equalizer. 
* Many usability improvements. We have made amaroK more accessible to new
  users and more comfortable for power-users. 
* Automatic song lyrics display. Shows the lyrics to the song you're currently
  playing. 
* Support for your iPod with the all new media-browser. 
* On screen display has been revamped, now with optional translucency. 
* Theme your ContextBrowser with custom CSS support. 
* Support for the latest LibVisual library for stunning visualizations. 
* Great new amaroK icon "Blue Wolf", made by KDE artist Da-Flow. 
* Powerful scripting interface, allowing for easy extension of amaroK. 

Please see our new wiki (http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/) if you want to get 
started writing a script plugin!

The amaroK team
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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/
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