Download Amarok 1.4.7

The Amarok program is a popular audio player for KDE and features extensive possibilities. This way you can easily create (dynamic) playlists, search for song lyrics on the internet and adjust MP3 tags without any hindrance. In addition, it can stream from a KIO source and supports various backends such as xine, NMM and MAS. The developers have released Amarok 1.4.7 and provided the following announcement:

Yet another bugfix release from the Amarok cave to shorten the time until Amarok 2.0 hits the earth. Our code monkeys have been working very hard to get you an even more polished version of Amarok ‘Fast Forward’.

Amarok 1.4.7 includes an improved collection backend as well as a new icon coloring provided by Pasi Lallinaho. The streams we provide got a cleanup to give you the finest and coolest streams available. Of course we have also fixed a bunch of bugs, even though our main focus has moved to Amarok 2.0 development.

Changes:

• Updated the Cool Streams.
• Improved application icon. Thanks go to Pasi Lallinaho.
• Upgraded SQLite to 3.4.1
• SQL improvements providing optimizations on intensive queries. Patch by Gosta

Bug fixes:

• Wikipedia artist lookup would freeze Amarok if the artist was not found and the locale was not English. (BR 142764)
• Cannot limit smart playlists to more than 1000 tracks. (BR 148084)
• Fixed the formatting in the “Extended Info” pane for podcasts.
• Don’t show “Not Rated” for items rated with half a star. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
• Copy, don’t move items from Cool Streams to folders. (BR 147404)
• Sometimes folders in the playlist browser could be lost. (BR 147404)
• NJB devices could have tags corrupted that contained Unicode characters. Patch by Kun Xi
• Show OSD when changing song rating via shortcut. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
• Show the stars indicating rating with the correct size in the OSD. Patch Patch by Tuomas Nurmi