Sneak Peak at Amarok 2

Amarok2 is the latest installment to the popular media player all Linux users are familiar with, Amarok.  Amarok2 will be released for the much anticipated KDE4 desktop environment which is planned to be released October 2007.

New feature to be inlcuded with Amarok2,

1. New playlist.
2. Cover Flow. Cool album selector at the bottom utilizing opengl.
3. Plasma, the new desktop and widgets is used for the dashboard. (Middle area)
4. Better service integration with Magnatune. The online media store. Better album cover discovery and album cover support for streaming media.

Check out the screenshots of the old and new.

Source : Amarok Blog

2 Responses to “Sneak Peak at Amarok 2”

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1. Irwan says:

   August 2, 2007 at 9:05 pm

   Guna mplayer je

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2. Danny says:

   August 3, 2007 at 2:50 pm

   I normally use mPlayer to play video files and individual audio files but when it comes to managing my 100GB ++ of mp3s I need a good media manager to help.

   In Windows it was media monkey and Linux Amarok.

   Thanks for the tip Irwan

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