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Features

Persistant Queue Saving: The playlist queue is now saved when Amarok is closed and restored upon startup. (BR 215057)

Automated Playlist Generator: allows smart creation of playlists that match user-specified constraints. Combines the features of "Smart Playlists" in Amarok 1.4 with the Bias system of Amarok 2.0.

It's now possible to mark all episodes in a channel as old or new at once.

New "Upcoming Events" applet, displays future concerts for the artist of the currently playing track. The event info is fetched from Last.fm.

New "Similar Artists" applet, displays a list of artists which are similar to the one currently played. The list is fetched from Last.fm.

The scripting system now offers a new function for detecting that a track has finished. Patch by Michael MacDonald <mars@antlersoft.com>. (BR 227312)

New "CoverBling" applet, which allows to browse your collection in an animated 3D view. Thanks to Manu Wagner <manu.wagner@sfr.fr>.

Support for the new System Tray technology from KDE SC 4.4. This adds nice animations and a better looking popup menu to the System Tray. Thanks to Aurelien Gateau <agateau@kde.org> for the patch.

Allow playlist layouts to group tracks by directory. (BR 230594)

Cover fetcher: The UI was improved. Now an icon view is used to display results, with an informational sidebar that may show interesting bits about an image.

Cover fetcher: Added ability to enter custom queries via Yahoo!, Google, or Discogs (in addition to Lasf.Fm). Note the source for automatic cover fetching is still Last.fm only.

Changes

Allow changing the number of recently added albums in the albums applet.

Magnatune.com store: Added "Home" link to all artist and album pages leading to the Magnatune.com front page.

Magnatune.com store: Improved Magnatune.com front page.

Magnatune.com store: Completely remove option to purhcase single albums as this is no longer supported by Magnatune.com and the API for doing so will be disabled in the future.

The new file browser now supports "places".

Added "up" and "home" buttons to the new filebrowser.

Items in the breadcrumb navigation bar are now hidden if there is not enough room to show all of them (similar to how it works in Dolphin) (BR 231497)

Improved performance (dramatic in some cases) when filtering the Playlist (231185).

Remove information that is already displayed elsewhere in the playlist from the playlist tooltips.

Make showing the playlist tooltips a per playlist layout option.

When bookmarking a view in the local collection, also store (and restore) the setings for "Show Cover Art" and "Show Years". (BR 230562)

Allow moodbar files witout the leading '.' (both .<trackfilename>.mood and <trackfilename>.mood now work)

Change example SQL command for setting up an external database to remove (sometimes incorrect) host name and possibly fix some random regression in some MySQL versions. (BR 225052)

Bugfixes

Continuing with our rapid development process, only a few weeks after the successful 2.3.0 release we present Amarok 2.3.1 beta 1. Not only does this release provide many bug fixes, but we even added a number of exciting new features, such as the powerful, aandapplet, and support for the new system tray of KDE SC 4.4. Additionally a lot of performance optimization was done in several areas. The Playlist became significantly faster, especially with filtering a large amount of items. Also, cover image fetching was enhanced and is now more reliable and effective.We encourage our users to test this release and provide feedback. The usual warnings apply: this is a beta release and there can be rough corners. However, overall it is quite usable, and your feedback can help us making an even better 2.3.1 release :)The changes since Amarok 2.3.0 include: