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A few days ago, we have placed a poll on this site, asking our users to decide on a new domain for amaroK. Now we're happy to announce the immediate availability of our new domain. And the winner is:

http://amarok.kde.org

Thanks to everyone who voted!

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Here we'd like to give you a little insight on what we are currently working on. While we are currently still polishing version 1.0, work on the next release has already started.




We hope to come up with some exciting new features, take a look what's shaping up in our secret underground development labs:

• Scripting System:
  
  Our goal is to create a JavaScript plugin system, that allows for easy extending of the application. JavaScript is the ideal language for little extensions like an alarm plugin, or a new browser. Quick and easy, even beginners can use it without a steep learning curve. The scripting system is already functional in our 1.1 development branch.
• Extra Audio Engine:
  
  Many users have requested a pure Alsa engine, which does not require multimedia frameworks to be installed for amaroK. We plan to provide such an engine, possibly with the option to re-use existing XMMS plugins for decoding.
• New Visualization Framework:
  
  Currently amaroK has full support for existing XMMS visualizations. For the next version, we plan to add a new system that allows us to develop our own visualization plugins, and it will also allow third parties to offer plugins for amaroK.

..and as always, we will be open for suggestions. Stay tuned :)

ChangeLog:

• ADD: Additional volume slider for playlist window.
• ADD: ContextBrowser shows you images and information to the current song/artist. It depends on the collection and is presented as an HTML widget.
• CHG: Improved color handling and visual feedback in the GUI.
• ADD: Global shortcut for play/pause action, as requested by multimedia-keyboard users (BR 79541).
• CHG: Small player-window can be switched off now.
• FIX: CollectionBrowser out of order after scanning.
• FIX: TitleProxy partly rewritten. Should be more compatible with many streams and not be able to freeze the app any longer.
• FIX: When playing a stream with title streaming activated, the track is not marked as playing (BR 79999).
• FIX: Invoking "Track Information" in Collection Browser sometimes crashed the application (BR 80266).
• FIX: In CollectionBrowser's folder setup dialog pressing cancel did not abort (BR 80451). Thanks to Michael Pyne for patch.
• ADD: Option for selecting sound output system (OSS/Alsa). Currently only used with GStreamer engine.
• CHG: Extended and updated handbook, thanks to Mike Diehl .
• ADD: Context menu item "Make Playlist" in Collection Browser generates new playlists on the fly, without the need for drag-and-drop.
• CHG: Renamed several files and folders in the source code tree, resulting in improved code accessibility.