amaroK is a soundsystem-independent audio-player for *nix. amaroK's interface uses a powerful "browser" metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection. We have a fast development-cycle and super happy users. We also provide pensions and other employment benefits.

"Easily the best media-player for Linux at the moment. Install it now!"
- Linux Format Magazine

Here are some key features of "amaroK":

· Quick and simple drag and drop playlist creation
· Music library (built-in sqlite or MySQL)
· Multiple backends supported (GStreamer, xine, NMM, MAS and aRts)
· 10 band equalizer
· Automatic cover art download using Amazon services
· The unique and powerful context browser
· Automatic play-statistics generation (iRate style)
· Full lyrics download
· Full Audioscrobbler support
· Visualisations with libvisual
· Streaming from any KIO source
· Crossfading
· Fully configurable OSD for track changes
· K3B (CD-burning) integration
· KDE integration

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· The inline playlist editor now also allows resizing of auto sized items that are invisible because fixed sized items already use up 100% width.
· Enhanced the playlist sorting breadcrumb items to separately highlight the order inversion arrow on hover. (BR 209011)
· The automatic character set detection for tags has been disabled; it caused too many problems with legitimate UTF-8 tags. It can be re-enabled from Settings->Collection. (Many BRs)
· Dynamic mode is now automatically disabled when replacing the playlist. (BR 214759)
· The collection search filter now also searches for file names as a fallback. Patch by Andreas Hartmetz .

Bugfixes:
· Fixed crash with dangling pointer on trying to play a media device track whose collection no longer exists. (BR 210477)
· Fixed loading MusicBrainz-tagged tracks in dynamic playlists. (BR 219902)
· Fixed MusicBrainz-tagged tracks not being restored in the playlist upon restart.
· Fixed incorrect display of rich text in applet header text. (BR 220714)
· Fixed GUI freezing after mounting and during parse of media devices. (BR 180520)
· Fixed occasional crash when custom biases go awry. (BR 219888)
· Fixed missing icons in the drag overlay menu.
· More reliable MimeType detection for music formats. Patch by Rafał Rzepecki . (BR 219792)
· Fixed regression causing many scripted services, including the, shipped by default, LibriVox service to not work at all.
· Fixed corner case that could prevent scans from being completed, manifesting as a regression in 2.2.1. Huge thanks to Christian Kreibichfor his patience and time in helping to debug this.
· Fixed removing multiple tracks from a saved playlist only removing the first track. (BR 218527)
· Fixed cancel button not responding when loading thumbnails in the cover manager. (BR 204882)
· Fixed crash when using the inline playlist editor to resize items containing auto sized elements not shown becuase of all space already being used. (BR 218167)
· Fixed relative links in wikipedia work. (BR 218512)
· Fixed multilevel playlist sorting by time since last played so it sorts numerically rather than alphabetically. (BR 214761)
· Fixed crash with "Edit Track Details" dialog. (BR 217625)
· Fixed a number of cases where markers such as "current track", "stop after this track" and others would get shown in both group header and the first track in the group. (BR 197842)
· Fixed regression causing non default moodbar styles to not work.
· Jamendo.com service: Fixed track lengths not getting shown for most tracks. For existing installs, this requires a redownload of the Jamendo database. (BR 200531)
· Jamendo.com service: Fixed searches not working because of SQL errors.
· Jamendo.com service: Removed broken "Unknown" genre which would freeze Amarok if expanded. For existing installs, this requires a redownload of the Jamendo database. (BR 213165)
· Playback of Audio CD track now correctly stops if track is the last in the playlist. (BR 216175)
· Fixed crash if user clicks rating widget on the current track applet while no track is playing (which is possible since there is a slight delay before the applet switches "mode"). (BR 215471)
· Made "Last.fm Love" (and potentially other global actions avaiable for all tracks) correctly show up in the Current Track applet.