Ataksak - Amarok 2.0 Beta 3 released

Re-voilà le temps des réjouissances! Les arbres se colorent, l'hiver approche à grand pas (du moins dans l'hémisphère nord), les gens aiment se rapprocher et devinent aimables les uns envers des autres, le monde paraît plus agréable à vivre, même le soleil semble briller plus chaudement, mais que veut dire tout cela? Une nouvelle Beta d'Amarok 2 est là, bien sur!



L'équipe d'Amarok se réjouit d'annoncer la disponibilité immédiate d'Amarok 2 Beta 3, nom de code Ataksak. Ce lancement est un autre pas de géant vers la version finale. Elle corrige un bon nombre de bogues ennuyeux et apporte pas mal d'améliorations au différents éléments de l'application. Il y eu des réécritures considérables dans quelques éléments pour corriger des problèmes profondément enracinés. En tout, Amarok 2 est maintenant beaucoup plus fiable.

Voici quelques-uns des changements les plus significatifs:

• La liste de lecture et la barre d'état on reçu une attention particulière
• Importation de la base de données/des statistiques depuis Amarok 1.4
• Rénovation considérable de l'intégration last.fm
• Tris par année et album sont à nouveau possible dans la collection (petite amélioration, mais souvent demandée)
• Raccourci pour aller dans la piste courante de la liste de lecture
• Beaucoup de bogues corrigés et augmentation considérable de la stabilité

Le temps est venu pour les auteurs de scripts de les porter sur la nouvelle version. Les premiers scripts ont fait leur apparence sur kde-apps.org.

Un grand merci à tout ceux qui ont donné un coup de main avec des rapports de bogue et des correctifs. Continuez ainsi :)

Comme nous approchons de la version finale d'Amarok 2.0, de plus en plus de distributions offrent des paquets d'installation dans leurs répertoires. Des paquets binaires pour Windows sont disponibles via l'installateur KDE-on-Windows. Essayez les et dites nous ce que vous en pensez. Si vous voulez nous aider financièrement à maintenir notre niveau de qualité, vous pouvez contribuer à notre demande de fonds annuelle "Roktober". Si vous ne trouvez pas de paquets tout faits qui vous conviennent, téléchargez l'archive et compilez-le vous-même:
Ci-après la liste complète des changements (en anglais):

Features

• More intelligent sorting of items in the collection browser, using locale aware sorting and natural sorting for numbers. Patch by Nicholas Wilson . (BR 154408)
• The playlist automatically scrolls when dragging tracks. (BR 171622)
• Import statistics from Amarok 1.4.
• Double clicking items in the Albums applet appends to playlist.
• Service scripts can now specify custom info for artist, album and friends that will be shown in the playlist and other places, independetly of their actual parent item in the service. This value is ignored if item is not a level 0 item. Specifying these values is completely optional.
• Playlists can be added using the Add Media dialogs.
• Collection browser can once again sort by Year - Album.
• Albums applet shows disc number separators.
• Context menu and drag & drop support for the albums applet.
• Added tracks count and total playlist time to the status bar. (BR 171652)
• You can now Copy To a collection, Append, and Load tracks from the file browser's context menu.

Changes

• Improved usability for the collection configuration dialog.
• XSPF playlists will now attempt to apply any stored metadata to items not owned by a service when loading. This will make many streams stored on shutdown appear with correct metadata after a restart of Amarok.
• Scripted services are now able to set the infoHtml used in the service info applet for individual tracks.
• The default lyrics script now uses the LyricWiki site, which is more reliable and also faster than the old lyrics provider.
• Add script API function: Amarok.Collection.escape which escapes strings for SQL statements.
• Some new and updated icons.
• Allow multiple items to be selected in the user playlist category.
• Statusbar rewrite: Messages are no longer shown as top-level windows.
• Added proper mouse over visuals to some places where it was missing.
• All services (or any other part of Amarok) can now add context actions to any item in any collection. This is only used for the "play similar artists from last.fm" currently, but it allows this kind of action to be added without hardcoding it in the core. The immidiate effect of this is that the last.fm action is now available for any artist in any collection.
• New "playground" directory added for plugins and applets that are not yet ready for prime time.
• Nonconsecutive items can now be selected and dragged around in the playlist.
• Major overhaul of playlist subsystem, including a completely new view (even though it looks a lot like to old one). Programmers should review the SVN commit notes to learn about other changes.
• Selecting "Move to Collection" in the file browser's context menu will now recursively include all directories within the selected items.
• Selecting "Move to Collection" in the file browser's context menu will now delete the original source files as expected.

Bugfixes

• Correct scrobbling for all tracks, even last.fm streams and loved tracks in Last.Fm streams. (BR 164156)
• Files moved or organized into themselves are no longer deleted. (BR 173341)
• Fix playlist scrollbar graphical errors with some styles. Patch by Huynh Huu Long . (BR 173547)
• DBus MPRIS call GetMetadata returns the location field. (BR 173324)
• Amarok would not show all files it could play in the files browser (BR 173333)
• Amarok now remembers its panel sizes over restarts. Patch by Gary Steinert . (BR 172976)
• Automatic track score computation works now.
• Immediately remove the playlist drop visualiser from the playlist after dropping an item. (BR 171382)
• Albums applet doesn't jumble up most recent albums listing.
• Fix problems with Amarok stopping playback after each track in some cases. (BR 172897)
• Don't forget about downloaded images after doing a collection rescan.
• Fixed giant font in the Internet tab on some machines. (BR 172954)
• MPRIS Dbus interface Pause function conforms is a Play/Pause action. (BR 173007)
• Script downloads using KNewStuff2 now correctly installs and uninstalls scripts.
• Fix memleak in iPod handler. Thanks to Christophe Fergeau.
• Wikipedia applet: Fix infinite retry loop if no artist information is found. (BR 171074)
• First track of an album in the playlist can now be dragged seperately from the entire album. (BR 171331)
• Fix crash when searching in the shoutcast service. (BR 170681)
• Fix crash when adding multiple shoutcast stations. (BR 170247)
• Escape HTML characters from track metadata when showing the system tray tooltip. Patch by Andrey Esin . (BR 172623)
• Only add one new folder when selecting "Add Folder" from the context menu in the user playlist category. (BR 169666)
• Statusbar rewrite: Bring back the detailed progres operations view. It is now possible again to get a list of all running operations and to cancel each one individually. (BR 168380)
• Statusbar rewrite: The "cancel all" button now works.
• Statusbar rewrite: Don't hang on exit. (BR 171665)
• When searching in the collection, give keyboard focus to the results after pressing Enter. (BR 172379)
• Do not set two different lyrics scripts as default.
• File sizes for non-collection local tracks are now determined properly.
• Track rating and score are now enabled for read-only files too.
• Play option from playlist context menu works now. (BR 172141)
• Cloud applet moved to playground as it still needs a lot of work. (BR 170613)
• Playlist overhaul fixes a couple of bugs. (BR 167861) (BR 171048)
• Search queries with ' and \ now work fine. (BR 173330)