Amarok 2.1 Released (Screencast tour)

4 Jun, 2009 1 Comment Amarok, KDE4, Video, fedora, linux, software

Wohoo Amarok 2.1 released yesterday with tons of new features.For the list of the new features go here.Here are some of the new features of Amarok 2.1 in video format

Applets in Amarok 2.1

Bookmarking & Amarok URLs

Bookmarking comes in two types, automatic and manual. When you are listening to a long podcast, audiobook (or any other track longer than 10 minutes) Amarok will automatically mark the last listened to position and auto resume playback when you return to the track. You can also manually bookmark a position in any track to save for later.

Amarok URLs allow you to create a link to a certain place in Amarok. For example, you could make an URL to a great song you found on Jamendo and send it to your friend. Her Amarok will open the Jamendo service and the song you found. Stumbled upon an exceptional audio book on LibriVox? Create a link and send it to your family.

The new playlist layout

Highly improved Last.fm integration

The Last.fm service received an interface update and can now play any tag, user, or artist radio. There is also an option to mark songs in local collection as loved.

For an update on more videos from the Amarok den you can subscribe to Amarok’s official youtube channel : Amarok Studios

Here are some more videos on new,old, and upcoming features : link

The screencasts were created on Fedora 10 using the svn version of Amarok.The software used for recording the screencasts is gtk-recordmydesktop.

For users of Fedora,the packages will arrive soon.Or try downloading the source tarball.