E' stata rilasciata la beta2 della versione 2.1 di Amarok, il famoso riproduttore multimediale per KDE (ma anche Gnome, Linux MacOS e Windows).

In questa nuova beta, il team di Amarok si è impegnato a risolvere alcuni bugs che affliggevano il programma, una gestione più intuitiva dell'interfaccia ed un ottimizzazione del codice.
Qui di seguito posto il changelog del nuovo rilascio

Features

• New Script method to get current track time in milliseconds.

Changes

• Pressing the return key in the playlist search activates the selected result.
• Pressing the escape key in the playlist search clears it's contents.
• Optimizations to the insertion and removal of large numbers of tracks from the playlist. Especially clearing a large playlist is now about 300 times faster.
• Always scroll to newly inserted tracks in the Playlist.
• When removing upcoming tracks from an active dynamic playlist, add a similar number of new ones to keep if from "drying up".
• Some action cleanup in the playlist context menu.
• When clearing the playlist, also reset the search/filter text.
• Podcast titles are stripped of unnecessary whitespace.

Bugfixes

• Fixed incorrect track counts in the collection.
• Fixed duplicate scanning of playlists during collection scan
• Fixed drag and drop to other applications.
• Fixed the filter widget in the Files browser.
• Fixed crash when using context menu after collection update.
• Fixed problem with Amarok showing wrong track length for Last.fm streams. Patch by Michael Quinn .
• Fixed several memory leaks.
• Set the value of the slider to the actual scale when loading a fuzzy Bias playlist, instead of 100% in every case
• Don't fetch all coverless albums automatically when opening the Cover Manager.
• Podcast episodes are loaded correctly when restoring a playlist on startup. This means the local file will be played if downloaded.
• Next button in the main toolbar no longer has a clipped shadow.
• Fixed slider mouse events in RTL layouts.
• Detect iPhones as iPods.
• Clicking on "Stop after current track" disables the flag if it is already enabled.
• Show a track marker when the "stop after current track" flag is set.
• Don't flash the OSD when opening the settings dialog. Patch thanks to Andreas Heider .
• Podcast file formats are correctly displayed.
• Don't crash when pressing Delete on empty playlist.

Beh, di lavoro in un mesetto ne è stato fatto!
Il download della beta ed altre informazioni sono disponibili alla pagina ufficiale.

Buon Ascolto :)