After dome discussion, we have decided to extend Roktober since we are so far away from our goal and we think that maybe part of the problem is not enough promotion, so if we extend a few weeks maybe we can get this going. Not everyone follows the developer blogs, so if anybody missed the blog entry put up by our treasurer regarding Roktober, here are some highlights (or read the full entry):

• we have seen a huge fall-off in donations from outside the EU and we're wondering why this is;
• we are planning on giving two prizes this year so we are giving entries in the drawing based local currency;
• towards the end of last year we spent over €2000 to send 12 people to aKademy;
• the project spent about €1500 on technical and administrative items like server hosting, domain administration, develop resources (books) and hardware;
• in addition to aKademy, we spent over €3500 attending free software conferences around the world
• each developer/contributor team member was given two t-shirts. A small thank you for the large amounts of time put into the project by volunteers who are doing this for fun, not profit.

Rok This Town

Welcome to the 13th (good it's not Friday) issue of Amarok Insider. On this happy day we prepared for you:

• Release plans
• Final look for 2.0
• Context View
• The Playlist
• Brand new PopUp Dropper
• Web services unmasked
• A bit about Biased playlists
• Scripting
• Mac OS X and Windows installers
• Features missing in 2.0
• How to help
• Cool tips: Two roks

又是一个好日子,这时整个世界似乎更加明亮而又欢快,尽管在北半球冬天的脚步声离我们越来越近,但是,太阳光却比以前更加温暖。人们也比以前更加地友好，这是因为，又到了 Amarok 2 又一个 Beta 版本发布的日子。



Amarok 团队无比荣兴地向大家发布即时可用的 Beta 3 版本。版本号为 Ataksak。这个版本的发布表示我们向最终正式 2.0 版本又迈近了一大步。Beta 3 版本修复了大量的严重错误，增强了许多功能的应用性，甚至为了修复一些重启问题，还完全重写了部分模块。总之，Amarok 2 现在已经变成一个非常优良的应用程序。

最显著的变化，部分罗列如下：

• 播放列表和状态栏可以接收主要的侦听事件
• 从 Amarok 1.4 导入数据库/统计数据
• 彻底革新了同 last.fm 的整合
• 在收藏浏览器中按年份和专集排序
• 在播放列表中用快捷键来快速定位当前音轨
• 修复了许多许多的错误和稳定性问题

现在，脚本作者们可以开始对你们的脚本进行移植了，在新一批脚本已经在kde-apps.org上了。

万分感谢为我们提供错误报告和补丁的朋友们，感谢大家的努力。：）

随着，Amarok 2 正式发布的临近，越来越多的发行商开始在他们的软件仓库中提供 Amarok 最新版的安装包。Windows 版的二进制包可以通过 KDE-on-Windows 安装器来进行安装。所以，请大家安装吧，试用吧。并请告诉我们你的想法。最后还请您考虑在我们每年的 fundraiser Roktober上向我们资助。如果，你的运气不怎么好没有找到安装包，那你还可以直接抓取源代码包，自己编译。
变化的完整列表如下：