Amarok2.0 Beta 3 版本发布

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：

Features

• More intelligent sorting of items in the collection browser, using locale aware sorting and natural sorting for numbers. Patch by Nicholas Wilson . (BR 154408)
• The playlist automatically scrolls when dragging tracks. (BR 171622)
• Import statistics from Amarok 1.4.
• Double clicking items in the Albums applet appends to playlist.
• Service scripts can now specify custom info for artist, album and friends that will be shown in the playlist and other places, independetly of their actual parent item in the service. This value is ignored if item is not a level 0 item. Specifying these values is completely optional.
• Playlists can be added using the Add Media dialogs.
• Collection browser can once again sort by Year - Album.
• Albums applet shows disc number separators.
• Context menu and drag & drop support for the albums applet.
• Added tracks count and total playlist time to the status bar. (BR 171652)
• You can now Copy To a collection, Append, and Load tracks from the file browser's context menu.

Changes

• Improved usability for the collection configuration dialog.
• XSPF playlists will now attempt to apply any stored metadata to items not owned by a service when loading. This will make many streams stored on shutdown appear with correct metadata after a restart of Amarok.
• Scripted services are now able to set the infoHtml used in the service info applet for individual tracks.
• The default lyrics script now uses the LyricWiki site, which is more reliable and also faster than the old lyrics provider.
• Add script API function: Amarok.Collection.escape which escapes strings for SQL statements.
• Some new and updated icons.
• Allow multiple items to be selected in the user playlist category.
• Statusbar rewrite: Messages are no longer shown as top-level windows.
• Added proper mouse over visuals to some places where it was missing.
• All services (or any other part of Amarok) can now add context actions to any item in any collection. This is only used for the "play similar artists from last.fm" currently, but it allows this kind of action to be added without hardcoding it in the core. The immidiate effect of this is that the last.fm action is now available for any artist in any collection.
• New "playground" directory added for plugins and applets that are not yet ready for prime time.
• Nonconsecutive items can now be selected and dragged around in the playlist.
• Major overhaul of playlist subsystem, including a completely new view (even though it looks a lot like to old one). Programmers should review the SVN commit notes to learn about other changes.
• Selecting "Move to Collection" in the file browser's context menu will now recursively include all directories within the selected items.
• Selecting "Move to Collection" in the file browser's context menu will now delete the original source files as expected.

Bugfixes

• Correct scrobbling for all tracks, even last.fm streams and loved tracks in Last.Fm streams. (BR 164156)
• Files moved or organized into themselves are no longer deleted. (BR 173341)
• Fix playlist scrollbar graphical errors with some styles. Patch by Huynh Huu Long . (BR 173547)
• DBus MPRIS call GetMetadata returns the location field. (BR 173324)
• Amarok would not show all files it could play in the files browser (BR 173333)
• Amarok now remembers its panel sizes over restarts. Patch by Gary Steinert . (BR 172976)
• Automatic track score computation works now.
• Immediately remove the playlist drop visualiser from the playlist after dropping an item. (BR 171382)
• Albums applet doesn't jumble up most recent albums listing.
• Fix problems with Amarok stopping playback after each track in some cases. (BR 172897)
• Don't forget about downloaded images after doing a collection rescan.
• Fixed giant font in the Internet tab on some machines. (BR 172954)
• MPRIS Dbus interface Pause function conforms is a Play/Pause action. (BR 173007)
• Script downloads using KNewStuff2 now correctly installs and uninstalls scripts.
• Fix memleak in iPod handler. Thanks to Christophe Fergeau.
• Wikipedia applet: Fix infinite retry loop if no artist information is found. (BR 171074)
• First track of an album in the playlist can now be dragged seperately from the entire album. (BR 171331)
• Fix crash when searching in the shoutcast service. (BR 170681)
• Fix crash when adding multiple shoutcast stations. (BR 170247)
• Escape HTML characters from track metadata when showing the system tray tooltip. Patch by Andrey Esin . (BR 172623)
• Only add one new folder when selecting "Add Folder" from the context menu in the user playlist category. (BR 169666)
• Statusbar rewrite: Bring back the detailed progres operations view. It is now possible again to get a list of all running operations and to cancel each one individually. (BR 168380)
• Statusbar rewrite: The "cancel all" button now works.
• Statusbar rewrite: Don't hang on exit. (BR 171665)
• When searching in the collection, give keyboard focus to the results after pressing Enter. (BR 172379)
• Do not set two different lyrics scripts as default.
• File sizes for non-collection local tracks are now determined properly.
• Track rating and score are now enabled for read-only files too.
• Play option from playlist context menu works now. (BR 172141)
• Cloud applet moved to playground as it still needs a lot of work. (BR 170613)
• Playlist overhaul fixes a couple of bugs. (BR 167861) (BR 171048)
• Search queries with ' and \ now work fine. (BR 173330)