Amarok 2.4 "Slipstream" publicado

Ha sido un final de año muy ocupado para los desarrolladores de Amarok, mientras las estaciones traen los fríos vientos de invierno para unos y el ardiente sol del verano para otros. La mayoría de las grandes ramas de desarrollo han sido integradas, y muchas características nuevas han sido implementadas. Una versión principal es siempre un gran paso adelante y por tanto presentamos con orgullo la versión de Amarok 2.4, nombre en clave: Slipstream.

Esta versión trae consigo una mejora significativa de rendimiento, usabilidad y estabilidad: la mayoría de los fallos relacionados con el panel contextual han sido corregidos, se presenta un escáner para la colección completamente reescrito (es lo que lee las etiquetas de tus archivos de música) -- Amarok ahora tiene la capacidad de escribir tus estadísticas y carátulas directamente a los archivos de audio para conservar la información entre distintos dispositivos y debería detectar las compilaciones mucho mejor. Por fin, volvemos a tener la opción de ocultar la barra de menús.
En lo que se refiere a etiquetas, hay una nueva característica que funciona junto al nuevo escáner de la colección: integración con la biblioteca de música MusicBrainz para actualizar tus canciones con información exacta. Tener una colección organizada es más fácil que nunca ahora que puedes seleccionar lo que quieres que sea etiquetado y hacerlo con solo dos clics. Desafortunadamente hemos tenido que eliminar otra vez la colección Playdar que añadimos en la beta 1. Esperamos poder traerla de vuelta tan pronto como hagamos unos cuantos cambios en ella.

Otras características notables que han sido incorporadas en esta versión son:

• Capacidad de usar iPod Touch 3G y posiblemente dispositivos más recientes.
• Transcodificación: ahora Amarok te permite convertir canciones desde un formato de archivo a otro a la hora de copiarlos desde el navegador de archivos a la colección local. Expandiremos esta función a los dispositivos extraíbles en futuras versiones.
• Un nuevo applet que busca información sobre tablaturas de guitarras y bajos para todas tus necesidades en los instrumentos de cuerda.
• Exportación OPML para suscripciones de Podcasts.
• Una vista de mapa y calendario para el applet próximos eventos
• Compatibilidad con colecciones UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), ahora puedes escuchar música desde servidores UPnP en una red local.

Además hay otras muchas características, mejoras e innumerables fallos solucionados. Como siempre, es bueno echar un vistazo a la lista de cambios completa desde Amarok 2.3.2 que se encuentra más abajo para asegurarte de no perderte nada de interés.

¡Únete a nosotros y redescubre tu música!

Versión 2.4.0 (beta 1 y final combinadas)

Características

• New UPnP Collection detects and plays media on UPnP devices on the network.
• New transcoding feature which converts one or more tracks with a chosen encoder when copying to the local collection.
• Added option to use Wikipedia Mobile.
• Added settings for writing statistics and album covers back to the file.
• Leave focus in playlist search widget when using up/down to scroll through filtered results. Thanks to Thomas Karpiniec for the patch!
• LyricsApplet: The lyrics in are now updated when they were changed in a different place, for example in the Tag Dialog.
• Permit the use of iPod Touch 3G and possibly newer devices. Thanks to Aurélien Croc for the patch!
• Match space-separated search terms in the playlist filter var individually. Thanks to Thomas Karpiniec for the patch!
• Added new context applet for displaying guitar and bass tab information. Thanks to Rainer Sigle for the patch!
• Added ability to set/update Album Artist.
• Added map view and calendar in the upcoming events applet.
• Added support for all Wikipedia languages. (BR 220617)
• Added incremental search in the Wikipedia applet (press '/' or global search key when in focus).
• Added "Favorite Venues" to the upcoming events applet.
• Read MusicBrainz IDs of MP4 files during scanning.
• Ability to hide and show the menu bar. Patch by Valentyn Pavliuchenko <valentyn.pavliuchenko@gmail.com>.
• Size of the On-Screen-Display font is now configurable. (BR 195186)
• Musicbrainz-based mass tagging UI by Sergey Ivanov.
• New easy to use table-based UI for Ampache server configuration. (BR 200703)
• OPML export for podcast subscriptions. (BR 126120)
• New "Playlist Length" constraint for the APG, which allows you to specify the number of tracks in the playlist. What was the "Playlist Length " constraint is now called "Playlist Duration".
• MPRIS2 support for controlling Amarok over D-Bus.
• New "Playdar Collection" allows searching for and listening to music provided by a running local Playdar service.

Cambios

• New Splash Screen by Tomasz Dudzik <madsheytan@gmail.com>.
• The "Playdar Collection" feature has been disabled until some technical issues are resolved.
• Fixed some broken radio stream URLs.
• Brought back collapsing animations of context applets.
• Added a "Donors" tab to the About dialog for our generous Roktober 2010 donors who wish to be mentioned.
• Tracks might contain lyrics in the HTML format, where there's no user-visible content in the HTML. Those lyrics are now regarded as "empty".
• LyricsApplet: changed the layout of the "Do you really want to refetch lyrics" message.
• Current track applet: added "show in media sources" actions for current track's artist, album, composer, genre, and year if available.
• Current track applet: added action to open the tag dialog.
• Improved appearance of current track applet when playback is stopped.
• Better scrolling in the applet explorer.
• The default moodbar style now uses system colors.
• Added tray icon context-menu action to open the preferences dialog.
• Show a progress bar while loading pages in the Wikipedia applet.
• Added option to right-align "year" in the albums applet.
• Improved alignment of tracks in the albums applet.
• Scroll to the current album and make its tracks visible in the albums applet. (BR 187011)
• Added ability to expand/collapse/drag disc items in the albums applet. (BR 249488)
• Improved appearance of similar artist, upcoming events, and Wikipedia applets.
• Improved presentation of suggested lyrics (currently only 3rd party scripts use).
• Now using QToolTip for playlist tooltips.
• Changed playlist delegate margins and inline editor formating.
• Added "Added This Hour" filter preset to the collection brower widget.
• Bumped KDE dependency to version 4.4., and Qt dependency to 4.6.
• Print message when a file can't be copied to a media player. Patch by Sergey Ivanov <123kash@gmail.com>. (BR 203820)
• Improved the usability of device items in Media Sources by adding tooltips.
• Deleting items in the collection/file browser will move them to trash; pressing SHIFT while clicking the action will bypass trash.

Fallos solucionados

• Fixed crash on copying tracks between collection. (BR 261364)
• Fixed fetching of script data. BBC, Free Music Charts and others should work again. (BR 261839)
• Actually show the Splash Screen by default, as it was meant to work.
• Leave all pending files in case of error/conflict during tracks moving. (BR 257739)
• Fixed crash when moving tracks between collections. (BR 253033)
• Fixed issue with UMS Collection that made amarok to delete original track instead of newly copied one. (BR 238915)
• Fixed issue with Audio CDs that do not provide CDDB information. Patch by Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>. (BR 257818)
• Fixed issue with the Organize Files Dialog that prevented presets from being loaded when in advanced mode. Patch by Philipp Schmidt <philschmidt@gmx.net>. (BR 255325)
• Fixed white text on light blue background in tabs applet. (BR 258234)
• Fixed cover dialog crash pressing Ok when nothing is selected. (BR 258187)
• Title labels incorrectly used the text color from the plasma theme. This caused trouble with the fixed plasma theme and light color schemes.
• Fixed a data-loss bug where the user could lose changes he made to the current track's lyrics. (BR 207621)
• Fixed covers of Ampache tracks not available through DBus.
• Scanning stale and orphaned songs on iPod results in song duplication. (BR 235696)
• Applets' settings dialogs were partly untranslatable. (BR 255971)
• Fixed append&play action. Thanks Pieter van der Kloet for the patch. (BR 229706)
• Don't ignore the "use relative path" checkbox in the playlist export dialog. (BR 250689)
• Fixed applet explorer getting stuck. (BR 253058)
• Fixed Wikipedia applet header layout issues. (BR 215171)
• Fixed truncated heading in albums applet. (BR 231001)
• Playlist sorting breadcrumb items have been untranslatable. Patch by Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>. (BR 189750)
• Dynamic Playlist criteria were not being saved properly. (BR 243562)
• Collection Browser should show Artist names for Compilation Albums. (BR 252790)
• When Amarok starts and "Continue playing when Amarok is started" is selected, the Current Track applet showed songs of the artist instead of the current track info. Patch by Conrad Hübler. (BR 241641)
• Fixed crash on Windows when exporting playlist to any file type. Patch by James Duncan <james.t.duncan@gmail.com>. (BR 249376)
• If album keyword is empty, show "unknown album" in context window. (BR 205038)
• Ampache would not connect to servers placed in a subdirectory.
• Fixed an initialization bug which affected all context applets.
• Fixed bug where users could drag applets around indiscriminately.
• FLAC BPM tags could be read incorrectly. (BR 234166)