Amarok 2.2 Beta 1 版 "白水晶" 发布

又一个夏天，又一个对整个 Amarok 团队来说即平静而繁忙的夏天过去了。在这个夏天的每一天，我们都在忙着实现新的特性、修复错误，让 Amarok 更好用。 无论是海滩上， 在火车站，在机场，还是在森林的小木屋里，我们团队从来都没有停止开发。
因些，现在我们可以向你展示 Amarok 2.2 的 beta 1 版，代号：白水晶。

你喜爱的音乐播放器里所有的元素我们都涉及到了。更新日志着实是非常多。 现在 Amarok 可以在左侧使用崭新的浏览布局和视频片断小应用（提供来自各种网站的你喜爱的歌曲的音乐视频）。 新的照片显示应用可以获取当前艺术家的照片来配合播放气氛。其他许多应用也得到了巨大的更新。

左边，右边，中间......是不是有些乏味了。那么，现在你可以改变不同元素的布局了，把它们放置在*你*想要的地方！ 你甚至可以把元素都放在顶上，然后使用标签来切换它们。 那么是不是嫌工具栏太大而不合您的口味？ 那么，就试试全新的 toolbarNG （下一代工具栏）。 当然，我们并没有停止增强视觉方面的功能。我们还改善了收藏扫描器和消除了其中的一些错误。 你现在可以在收藏视图上，当前音轨应用上，还有播放列表中直接给歌打分评级。 你有媒体设备？插上它，它就会显示在收藏浏览器中。 想要播放CD？只要在您的驱动器，它就会出现在收藏浏览器，即可以让你直接播放，也可以拷贝音轨到硬盘。

播放列表也有许多的新功能提供。它现在提供了直观的高级多级排序，全部或部分混排，和改变音轨分组方式的选项。 所有这些不同的播放列表设置可以一起存储为一个书签，方便日后使用， 例如，如果根据作曲家来分组曲目，应用一个播放列表布局来显示作曲家和在组头中显示非专集的相关信息等。 说到书签，无论是内容浏览器和播放列表现在有一个非常简单的接口来存储和调用书签; 和编辑，分组和删除书签，书签管理器已大大改善，现在可从工具菜单进入管理。

在“保存播放列表”类别中你会发现导入的播放列表文件在扫描时会显示在收藏文件夹上。 当你在 Amarok 2.2 中更改文件中，这些磁盘上的文件也会发生变化。

你可以查看下面完整的更新日志

下载下来，尝尝鲜，如果发现有什么错误也请在 bugs.kde.org 上发个报告， 大约一个月后我们即将发布 Amarok 2.2 版，敬请期待。

Changelog

Features

• Allow pasting an URL from clipboard to playlist with middle mouse click. Patch by Felix Geyer <debfx-kde@fobos.de>.
• Support for copying aiff files to iPods. (BR 200820)
• Add openDesktop.org support to the About dialog to make it easier to interact with the Amarok team.
• Add inline editing of track metadata in the playlist.
• The Playlist supports different grouping modes.
• The playlist can be partly or fully randomized (shuffled) by selecting "random" as a sorting level.
• Info about the categories in the "Browsers" area is now shown in the info applet on mouse over.
• Magnatune.com store: Add support for the personal recommendations feature available to Magnatune.com members.
• Magnatune.com store: Add support for the membership "favorites" feature. Albums can now be marked as favorites using a context menu action, and the list of favorite albums is available in the info applet. From here clicking links can add albums to the playlist, navigate to the artist or album in the browser, remove an album from favorites and (for download members) start a download.
• Add a dbus ShowOSD method to /Player. (BR 213532)
• Playlist layouts can now show simple inline playback controls and a progress bar for the currently active track. This can be enabled on a per layout basis in the playlist layout manager dialog.
• Show position in track of the mouse (the position in the track that playback will jump to if pressing the mouse) when hovering over the progress bar.
• Amarok File Tracking can now use MusicBrainz track identifiers as embedded IDs.
• Allow sorting in the bookmark manager.
• Allow filtering in the bookmark manager.
• Add colums to the bookmark manger and make it possible to edit items inline.
• Add a small bookmark menu to the browser breadcrumb bar allowing for navigation to a bookmark, as well as creating a new bookmark based on the current "view" or calling up the bookmark manager.
• Magnatune.com store: Allow re-downloads of any previous Magnatune.com purchases by a given email, not just purchases made from a specific installation of Amarok.
• Inline editing of lyrics from the context applet. (BR 201342)
• Ipod initialization support when failed to read an iPod database.
• Improvements to the "Show Cover" dialog. Resizes to match the image, auto centers on screen, correctly handles images too large for the screen and supports zooming using the mouse wheel. Patch thanks to Pascal Pollet <pascal@bongosoft.de> (BR 175901)
• Automatically expand collection browser search results and make the results keyboard accessible. Patch thanks to Tuomas Nurmi <tuomas@norsumanageri.org>. (BR 172379)
• Audio CD support. Audio CDs now show up as a separate collection and tracks from the CD can be freely mixed with any other tracks in the playlist. Using the "Copy to Collection" menu its possible to copy (rip) tracks directly to the local (or any other writable) collection.
• Sortable playlist. The playlist can now be hierarchical sorted using a breadcrumb like interface to select sorting levels. Sorting can be easily reverted.
• Improved media device support.
• Video applet to show videos from YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo. The video can be appended to the playlist, and rendered within the applet.
• Photo applet to show images from Flickr, with customizable animations.
• Customizable user interface using dock widgets.
• Support for external MySQL database. See http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MySQL_Server.
• GHNS integration for downloading and installing Context applets.
• Support for Context applets to be written in QtScript.
• Custom Dynamic Playlists using Last.fm.
• Drag and Drop support for album cover image. (BR 91261)
• Upcoming and previous tracks count for dynamic playlist is now configurable. (BR 177540)

Changes

• Imported playlists can be directly edited from within the "Saved Playlists" category. The files on disk will be changed as well.
• Hueristics when deciding which album to use in a directory. See comments in (BR 196559)
• The "Service Info" applet is now simply called "Info" to reflect that it now shows info from other parts of Amarok as well.
• Remove the bookmark manager context applet and add a bookmark manager dialog instead.
• Magnatune.com store: Add a link to purchase gift cards to the purchase dialog.
• Reset playlist filter when using the "replace playlist" action. Patch by John Atkinson <john@fauxnetic.co.uk> (BR 200709)
• Track lyrics are exposed through the DBUS interface.
• The database connection and tables now enforce UTF-8 for the character set and collation.
• The OSD registers itself as a notification window type on relevant platforms. Patch thanks to Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>. (BR 194517)
• Improvements to the Wikipedia applet. History, language settings and more.
• Improvements to the Current applet. Text slides on mouse hover.
• New navigation style in the browser sidebar.
• Improvements to the Albums applet. Show individual track times and highlight currently playing artist within compilation albums
• Removed PlayAudioCD from the scripting interface. It never worked anyway, and audio CDs are just treated as a collection and not a special case like they were in 1.4.
• Changed trackInserted and trackRemoved API signals. (BR 194220)

Bugfixes

• Improved Amarok 1.4 import. Patch thanks to Michael Reiher <redm@gmx.de>.
• Improved performance and decreased memory usage when loading music shares (DAAP collections). Patch thanks to Duns <dunsens@web.de>. (BR 173048)
• Changing Amarok's settings no longer removes album covers from playlist. (BR 202258)
• Fixed crash on startup if another Amarok instance was still loading. (BR 202713)
• Fixed some album art in a folder not getting picked up if a subfolder contained any files. (BR 167158)
• Fixed broken selection in the "Saved Playlists" category.
• Fixed wrong Random Album mode behavior when playlists contains only one album. (BR 194066)
• Fixed double playcount increase for last track in queue (BR 188330)
• Fixed track drag-and-drop problem when special characters are present in file path. (BR 193878)
• Don't crash when trying to load an empty playlist folder. (BR 202643)
• Make using the mouse wheel over the progress slider correctly navigate in the currently playing track. (BR 195913)
• Correctly strip all formatting from text pasted or dragged to the comment field in the tag edit dialog. (BR 188270)
• Fix incorrect "current item" after deleting track(s) from the playlist causing up and down buttons to not move selection to the expected row. (BR 197203)
• Jamendo service: Fix destination filenames when using "copy to collection". (BR 171839)
• Jamendo service: Make torrent downloads work again. (BR 198200)
• Remove the video stream from the context view when removing the video applet during stream playback. (BR 201281)
• Fixed locales for Amazon cover fetching. (BR 188446)
• Fix crash on trying to edit a playlist layout with an invalid element value in the xml file. (BR 197128)
• Fix DBUS xml parsing. Patch thanks to Ryan Bitanga <ryan.bitanga@gmail.com>.
• Fix data caching issues causing incorrect values to be stored in the database and in some cases to be written to tags. Fixes multiple bugs.
• Correctly enable/disable "Prefer Tracks" menu entry. Patch thanks to Ralf Jung <ralfjung-e@gmx.de>. (BR 191059)
• Do not show "%20" at the end of each filter value in the LibriVox service. (BR 190704)
• Cached lyrics will now be shown when offline. (BR 197589)
• Fixed pressing play after reaching the end of the playlist not starting the playlist from the top (or wherever the navigator thinks it should start. (BR 176445)
• Fixed local playlists being renamed to blank when user hits cancel
• Fixed giant Edit Filter dialog with some translations. (BR 197566)
• Files browser remembers its view mode. (BR 197122)
• Fixed non-Latin UTF-8 encoding tags not being correctly decoded.