Tech Preview 'Kutie' of Amarok 2

Submitted by apachelogger on January 21, 2008 - 07:43

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 Amarok's very own my-wolf-eats-bugs department reports the immediate availability of the first Technology Preview of Amarok 2!

This preview represents a snapshot of the current state of Amarok 2 development. After nearly a year of development, it is quite usable for some tasks at this stage. It does play music! The basic framework is there: collection, plasma, web services. Read all about it in the most recent issue of Amarok Insider. They will give us the basis to make Amarok 2.0 the most innovative release yet. There is much more work to be done before the release of 2.0, we invite you to help us get there.

 

There are many things that are broken, non existent or flat out ugly, and we are well aware of that. Some things also work rather well. The purpose of this release is to inspire folks to stand up and help us finish Amarok 2.0. We need developers and artists, as well as Rokymoters (our non coder support and promo crew). Please join us in our IRC channel #amarok on freenode or send us an e-mail at amarok@kde.org.

And please, do not report bugs against Amarok 2, until we release an official alpha or beta version. There are many obvious bugs, often due to incomplete implementations. Do send your "svn diff" patches to fix any bugs and nurse this pup into one fierce wolf.

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This is pre-alpha software!


To install this Technology Preview in Kubuntu follow these steps:
1. add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main to your sources in /etc/apt/sources.list
2. run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install amarok2 amarok2-phonon

Comments

KDE 4.1

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 21, 2008 - 14:59.

Probably when KDE 4.1 come out with native mac and windows support ;-)

I am so heavily waiting for

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 21, 2008 - 14:42.

I am so heavily waiting for it, since I got a Mac and iTunes just sucks. I would love to see that Frontrow will use the album art Amarok downloads for my music.

Keep up your exciting good work!

1-Click Install for openSUSE 10.3

Submitted by apokryphos (not verified) on January 21, 2008 - 13:45.

http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/KDE%3AKDE4/openSUSE_10.3/kde4-amarok.ymp

Awww

Submitted by dangle (not verified) on January 21, 2008 - 10:09.

Such a beautiful kub :-D

Mac?

Submitted by Dan (not verified) on January 21, 2008 - 08:47.

Can this be used on a Mac? Or is that only going to be in the final 2.0 release?

Plasma issue

Submitted by joker on January 21, 2008 - 09:10.
I think that it's not working on mac because of plasma. work in progress

It works fine on a mac, you

Submitted by hydrogen on January 24, 2008 - 17:55.
It works fine on a mac, you will need to build it yourself, or look for RangerRick's packages.

but amarok is said to be

Submitted by tal (not verified) on January 25, 2008 - 13:35.

but amarok is said to be "temporarily not building"
http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/KDE_on_Mac_OS_X
I've installed all others packages, how can i build amarok from this 2.0 delivery ?

trust the ranger

Submitted by Ian Monroe (not verified) on January 28, 2008 - 18:48.

I would just trust Ranger Rick to know what he is doing. Amarok is one of his priorities. The place to ask for details is #kde-darwin on Freenode IRC.