Amarok 2.0 RC 1 was released today

Today the Amarok project releases Narwhal, the release candidate of the upcoming Amarok 2.0.

The changes since Beta 3 focus mostly on fixing bugs, as we are in a fairly hard feature-freeze to give us time to polish the final product. However, this didn’t stop us from adding a few nice new things:

• Users’ Recommended radio is now shown in the Last.Fm Service.
• Playlist browser items can be deleted and renamed using the keyboard.
• Basic and Advanced view when editing a filename scheme are synchronized.
• Added delete button to Advanced view for defining a filename scheme.
• Importer for iTunes libraries now allows you to import your statistics from iTunes.
• The settings dialog now remembers the page that was last used.
• Track information can be edited from the file browser.

In addition, there are the following changes:

• User playlists added from files are now updated on collection rescans, so any changes in the file is reflected in the SQL playlist.
• Layout refactoring in the Organize Collection dialog.
• Enabled Last.fm scrobbling by default when Last.fm login is supplied.
• “Show active track” has been moved from the playlist context menu to the playlist toolbar
• The video and Last.fm applet have been removed for now as they are not ready for final release. They will be readded in later releases.

A lot of great new scripts have shown up on kde-apps.org. Give them a try and enjoy.

Packages are available through your distributions package manager, the KDE-on-Windows installer and from the KDE-on-Mac website. Additionally the tarball can be downloaded here.

And remember, the new Amarok 2.0 RC 1 works on Windows and MacOS too.

See FAQ and ChangeLog.