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I thought it was time to post a screenshot of how Amarok2 development is moving along.

As my focus is on the service integration, I have chosen to show a few of the new things that are happening in this area, as well as some of the more general and cool stuff that is being worked on.





the following things are noteworthy:

- The new playlist. I am absolutely in love with this thing! Service previews tracks (Magnatune and Jamendo) can now cache album covers on the fly so they show up even when you are streaming. This means that the services now appear really well integrated.

- Magnatune genres are now used in a better way in the Magnatune list, and an artist can belong to several genres. This gets rid of the "Genre box" hack from the previous versions,

- Purchasing from Magnatune now supports using gift card codes as an alternative to credit cards. For those coming to FrOSCon later this month, the Amarok team there might have a nice little surprise for visitors involving this!

- An opengl playground at the bottom with an experimental"CoverFlow" inspired album selector "CoverBling" is being worked on. Just playing around for now, so please don't flame it just yet!!!

- The big central area has just been switched to using Plasma, the coll new desktop and widget technology in KDE4. As can be seen, it has not really been customized for Amarok yet, but it should allow for really neat context information. I plan on moving to small info view at the bottom of the Magnatune service out into the central context area where there is much more room for doing really interesting and interactive things.


As you can hopefully tell, there is lots of interesting stuff going on, and even though nothing is really finished yet, there is a bunch of highly motivated developers coding too much and sleeping too little because they are passionate about Amarok.