Saturday, June 7, 2008

New features in Amarok music player - Sneak peak, pretty playlist, raw plasma

Amarok is a versatile music player for Linux/Unix platforms. A couple of months back I had reviewed this versatile music player which has a lot more features than just playing music.

The next avatar of Amarok is Amarok2 which is going to see a number of enhancements such as :
  • A better integrated play list
  • Artists can be associated with more than one genre
  • Purchasing from Magnatune now supports using gift card codes as an alternative to credit cards.
  • A OpenGL support for album selector - I may add that anything related to OpenGL at present requires you to install the proprietary graphics drivers of Nvidia or ATI depending on the graphics card you use.
  • The big central area has just been switched to using Plasma, the new desktop and widget technology in KDE4.
Courtesy : Amarok blog.

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