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Amarok 2.0 released

Amarok 2.0 released

Posted Dec 10, 2008 23:39 UTC (Wed) by aseigo (guest, #18394)
In reply to: Amarok 2.0 released by az
Parent article: Amarok 2.0 released

So, I'm using Amarok 2 right now and I have a filter line for the
collection with a button next to it that launches an "advanced search"
dialog. From there I can easily create playlists. What it doesn't have is
the ability to take a playlist and filter out sounds in it without
creating a new playlist. Not exactly a deal breaker for me, though.

Shuffle? There's random play, by track or album, and allows one to have it
bias higher rated songs or tracks that haven't been played in a while.

Other than that, I count a number of features that were missing in
Amarok1, the interface is way more streamlined, the presentation is far
more beautiful, the widgets work very nicely, the scripting support is
even better than I remember in Amarok1 ....

... and it's a "dot-oh" release.

Whatever you want to think about and however grouchy you wish to be, I'm
finding it to be a wonderful upgrade over Amarok1.


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Amarok 2.0 released despite missing features

Posted Dec 12, 2008 16:48 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

... and it's a "dot-oh" release.

The KDE/Amarok guys want us to get used to a new fashion, that .0 releases are meant to be incomplete.

I have always considered that a .0 release should be feature-complete, and only have bugs in corner cases for which regression tests don't exist yet, and that developers don't use.

Sorry for the noise

Amarok 2.0 released despite missing features

Posted Dec 12, 2008 17:03 UTC (Fri) by kragil (subscriber, #34373) [Link]

OSX 10.0 and others started that trend long ago.

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