Wednesday, October 28. 2009Post Amarok 2.2.1: Adding some color to your life!
The upcoming Amarok 2.2.1 release is turning out to be quite an impressive one, especially considering how short of a release cycle we have put ourselves on. The changelog is full of good stuff already!
True to form though, I am going to do a little "2.2.1 is going to be great, but checkout what we have in store for 2.2.2" post!  So here goes:  If you are recoiling in horror at all those random colors, fear not, you will not see them at all. If however you have a ton of moodbar files lying around for your collection and liked this feature in Amarok 1.4.x, you are in luck! Showing the moodbar (if available) in the progress slider is configurable, and moodbars have been added to the playlist layout editor so you can add it to your favorite playlist alyout in any way you choose. Even the 4 different moodbar "styles" (normal, angry, frozen and happy) have been ported over. The moodbar generator itself seems to work still, even though it could really use some love and a porting to Phonon (or even to qtscript so it could be easily integrated into Amarok and, for instance, run on demand when playing a track or process the entire local collection in one go). Trackbacks
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Nice to see the moodbar finaly
It was the last missing feature for me. Great work! Can't wait to use it.
the shoutcast directory service was removed recently because of the shoutcast terms of service that made it illegal to distribute a shoutcast browser.
so no, it's not coming back unless the terms change.
Will the shoutcast directory regression be fixed?
(by including a locally searchable Icecast directory... Icecast rocks, and we can bring a little bit of attention there) 
Personally I agree that an Icecast directory integrated in Amarok could be a good alternative. However, we need someone to actually implement it (which should be fairly easy).
Contributions welcome
You are of course correct. I do make all my screenshots in png format, but this one took a detour around an online pastebin before making it to the blog which converted it without me noticing..
sorry 'bout that!
omg Moodbar! That and the recently added external MySQL feature may mean that I can finally upgrade from 1.4. Nice work.
Very nice work !!!
Any idea when the 2.2.2 version will be released ? Thx
We've scheduled about 6 weeks development time for each 2.2.x release. 2.2.1 is about two weeks away, so you can do the math
Yes. If you write BLINK in the playlist search filter, the Amarok logo will start flashing.
It's great to see Amarok moving forward at this pace! Congratulations to the Amarok team on that!
There are only two things missing in amarok: a proper and easy playlist-management and also colletion-management. Please think about how many clicks does one need to do the basic things, like selecting a song, saving a playlist. I used to make my "playlist of the month" (kind of a music diary) but it's just to complicated with amarok 2.2, which is a pity.  But anyways... keep on working! It's getting there... Best wishes, Nelli
A nice feature would be to have the translations of the lyrics right there in the lyric window
Great work on such a long changelog.
Now the only thing I miss is the queue manager. Any idea in wich version it will be back?
FINALLY!!!
This was the killer feature for me that made 1.4 stand out amongst the gnome music apps that were maturing.
Yesss! Thank you!
Now I'm starting to think about upgrading from 1.4
They are using the music frequencies, they just might look random if you do not know what the moodbars are!
Looks like another great release! I've been eagerly following Amarok 2 since its beta releases, and have been very happy with the return of 1.4 features, inclusion of new and awesome stuff, and further advances in stability and performance.
It's not said enough: thank you kindly, and keep up the good work
A little bit off topic but I hope someone might give me an update.
I read some time ago that musicbrainz support was dumped in Amarok 2.x in favour of an upcoming new way of getting meta data of a song. Since then, I haven't heard anything new. Are there any current plans of reimplementing that feature? Cheers, Mike
no work on that has been done... the plan is to use the last.fm fingerprinting stuff, but no one's stepped up to hash it out.
I think Casey was just being a geek and referring to the "stepped up to hash it out" wording of the parent, as 'fingerprinting' and 'hashing' are basically different words for he same thing!
Having the possibility to jump to the search bar is great, but I am still looking forward for AND / OR support in filters, as it is already available for the collection search. Any idea whether this will come back later?
Kind regards, thanks for amarok
Any idea where I can get information on porting the moodbar generator from gstreamer to phonon?
It should be pretty simple. You can get raw audio data out of Phonon by creating a Phonon::AudioDataOutput object, linking it to a MediaObject, and then connect something to the dataReady-signal that processes that data.
If you need more help, feel free to mail me or ask in #phonon on Freenode (I'm not there always, but I try to check in at least a couple of times a day).
Yes, mood bar! Amarok would be the best player ever if you could also play movies on it!
The "Organize Files" functionality is gone. Too bad.
Even though it was buggy, that was the most convenient feature of Amarok. Please reintroduce it ASAP.
Oh good, that feature better be back. I used that feature all the time. Geez...
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