Amarok 2.2.2 has been out for quite sometime. With this release, the Amarok team has changed the layout of some familar components a bit. The option to select random track/album or playlist/track repeat is no longer in the toolbar as it used to be.
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Amarok 2.2.2 Beta 1, nicknamed “Tattoo” was released about a week ago. Now, it is available for (K)Ubuntu 9.10 users in the Kubuntu Beta PPA.
Amarok 2.2.2 Beta 1 “Tattoo” brings many new changes. Most notable changes are two features from Amarok 1.4 series that has made a comeback:
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If you are using Amarok in GNOME, then you need to check out this tip in order to set a proxy for Amarok.

Amarok is one of the most widely used music players in Linux. But there is this weird problem with Amarok in Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) as right after you install Amarok in Ubuntu or Kubuntu, you won’t be able to play MP3 files directly even if you have installed the required media codecs. In this article [...]

A lot has been said regarding the upcoming release of Ubuntu, that is Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, – its new looks, new features etc. However, understandably, its KDE counterpart, Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, has been largely ignored and not a great deal of noise has been made about it. Here, in this article, we look [...]

Amarok 2.2, codenamed “Sunjammer”, is now out of beta and the final version has been released now. The Amarok team has also announced that Amarok 2.2 will now come with Karmic Koala, which is due for release on 29th October. It, however, is not available for Jaunty and as they have said, there is no [...]

The Amarok team is on its way to releasing the next version of Amarok i.e. Amarok 2.2, code named “Crystal Clear”, with the release of its first beta.
Quite a few changes has been introduced with this version. The lots of work has been done with the playlist. It now supports multi-level sorting and full or [...]

Amarok is the most faved Music Player in Linux for many. Even we here at Digitizor use Amarok as our default music player while on Linux. Though Amarok has a decent number of built-in scripts, it still lacks a decent script (plugin) for fetching music lyrics  from the web. Since people listen to foreign music [...]

For some unknown reason, I (as well as many other) like to set my currently playing track as my status in Gtalk and other IM clients. In Windows, with Gtalk and Winamp, this can be done done very easily. (From Winamp 5.5, there is a bit of problem.) But in Linux neither the GTalk client [...]

Fedora 10 ships with Amarok 1.94. If you install the the amarok-extras-free world package then you may not get your Mp3s to still play. This is because the amarok-extras-free depends on two more packages (dont confuse with dependencies) named: libtunepimp-extras-nonfree and xine-lib-extras-nonfree.
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