Software update: amaroK 1.3.7

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The amaroK program is a popular audio player for KDE and has extensive possibilities. This way you can easily create playlists, search for lyrics on the internet and adjust MP3 tags without any obstacles. It has onboard support for Podcasting, audio scrobbler, streaming from a KIO source and various backends such as GStreamer, xine, NMM and MAS. The developers have released version 1.3.7 titled ‘Airborne’ with the following announcement:

The amaroK Team proudly presents – a new update release in the ‘Airborne’ series. This release focuses on bug fixes, and delivers especially important fixes for users of the Qt 3.3.5 library. Also, users of the Helix audio engine will be delighted about many stability improvements.

changes:

  • In the tree view, sort tracks alphabetically first, unless one of the categories is by album, then sort by track number first. (BR 112830)
  • No longer delete Amazon covers every 90 days, instead relying on RefreshImages to re-download covers every 80 days to comply with the TOS of the Amazon web service.

Bug fixes:

  • Fix weirdness when overwriting a playlist by dragging a file to the browser.
  • When using Year – Album on Collection Browser, if two albums had the same year, the order would be pseudo-random. Patch by Xepo . (BR 115584)
  • Fix build issue on PCLinuxOS with “cpu_set undeclared”.
  • Fix crash in helix engine caused by improper reference counting of the audiostreamresponse object.
  • Helix engine no longer declares it is “empty” on a track change (caused problems with context browser).
  • Tag dialog doesn’t delete year tags any more when editing multiple tracks.
  • amaroK would crash or hang when fetching similar artists information from last.fm (BR 116399)
  • Fix memory leak in the helix engine. (BR 116223)
  • When changing the database type, the apply button wouldn’t be enabled, and it would be necessary to restart amaroK for it to work properly.
  • Fix for regression in Qt 3.3.5, causing amaroK to crash when clearing the playlist. (BR 116004)
  • Zombie directories are removed automatically from the collection scanner. (BR 115779)
  • Dates wouldn’t be properly loaded when editing Smart Playlists.
  • Number of songs to add when using dynamic mode wouldn’t be respected, if the smartplaylist didn’t have an ORDER BY statement. (BR 115860)
  • Fix visibility related build problem on some distros.

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Version number 1.3.7
Operating systems Linux, BSD, macOS
Website amaroK Development Team
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License type GPL
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