First Alpha Release of Amarok 2.0, Codenamed "Malina"

Thursday, 10 July 2008  |  Lpintscher

The Amarok team have released the very first alpha version of Amarok 2, their upcoming series based on KDE 4. It features a completely redesigned interface, the PopUp Dropper, and the revolutionary "Biased" playlists. The Complete announcement is available on the Amarok Website. The Amarok team kindly asks you to report any problems you might encounter and submit patches to help make Amarok 2.0 a huge success.

Comments:

Nice work Lydia! - Nikolaj Hald Nielsen - 2008-07-10

Let me be the first to congratulate our new release girl on her first release! Nice work Lydia!

Re: Nice work Lydia! - Iuri Fiedoruk - 2008-07-10

Great news! Now let's wait for final release and pray for a k3b sometime in the future :)

Re: Nice work Lydia! - Bobby - 2008-07-11

K3B and KAFFEINE. I just can't wait to see a Kaffeine that's based on Qt 4.

Re: Nice work Lydia! - Fri13 - 2008-07-12

I should send my mockup of Kaffeine for devs, I just need to finish it (tryed to do it next 9months, so its now already too late!)

Re: Nice work Lydia! - ljubomir - 2008-07-10

Let me be the second :) Lydia, you rock!

Kubuntu Repositiories? - fabiank22 - 2008-07-10

Will there be Kubuntu repositories for hardy? I already have Beta 2 installed from launchpad, so dependencies shouldn't be that large a problem.

Re: Kubuntu Repositiories? - Ljubomir - 2008-07-10

You can use the Neon packages, they're up to date and working great.

Re: Kubuntu Repositiories? - fabiank22 - 2008-07-11

Yeah, but they seem to ship their own kdelibs... I already have the 4.1 beta2-libs installed, and don't wanna install 250mb of libs just for an amarok nightly.

Can't wait to try it - T. J. Brumfield - 2008-07-10

I don't mind the redesigned playlist that some people are wary about. I think Amarok is one of the crown jewels of KDE. I'm really excited about the upcoming 2.0 release.

Interesting codename - Dado - 2008-07-10

"Malina" is raspberry in croatian. :)

Re: Interesting codename - Artem S. Tashkinov - 2008-07-10

Probably devs mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malina And malina means raspberry in Russian too :-)

Re: Interesting codename - Plamen Terxiev - 2008-07-10

Also "Malina" is raspberry in Bulgarian too :)

Re: Interesting codename - js - 2008-07-10

Also in Polish :) Even funnier, it's related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Awards :)

Re: Interesting codename - Otakar - 2008-07-10

Same in Czech ;)

Re: Interesting codename - Bobby - 2008-07-11

And Slovak.

Re: Interesting codename - toxic - 2008-07-11

and slovenian

Re: Interesting codename - ojo - 2008-07-10

And Slovakia ;-)

Re: Interesting codename - ljubomir - 2008-07-10

And in serbian :DD Don't stop everybody, we have a couple more...

Re: Interesting codename - Kolla - 2008-07-11

Macedonian, Belarussian, Bosnian, Slovenian and Montenegrin?

Re: Interesting codename - bobo - 2008-07-17

there isn't macedonian language :) or we in Bulgaria must speak in about 20 languages:) everyone who know what cockney is know what i am talking about! :)))

Re: Interesting codename - blueget - 2008-07-11

Oh, and it thus is also connected with RazberrieTart, the official sidux Fangirl ;-)

Re: Interesting codename - Serzholino - 2008-07-11

And in Ukrainian ;)

Re: Interesting codename - Kornel - 2008-07-11

In Polish too.

Re: Interesting codename - Ian - 2008-07-11

Raspberry in polish? does that make wood shine better?? :o)

Re: Interesting codename - jos poortvliet - 2008-07-11

It's nothing in Dutch... ;-) But wouldn't it make for a nice name?

Re: Interesting codename - bios - 2008-07-11

"Malina" means raspberry in Serbo-Croatian (Srpskohrvatski/Hrvatskosrpski) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbocroatian_language

Debian - Ramón Antonio Parada - 2008-07-11

Amarok experimental repositories don't work in Debian :(

Amarocks - andy - 2008-07-11

Thanks for the Neon packages! Its great, while I haven't understood the no playlist concept (and the alternative list view is a bit buggy) yet the technology looks pretty amazing. Are there specific reasons why Amarok is not on EBN?

Re: Amarocks - Mark Kretschmann - 2008-07-11

http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/krazy/reports/extragear/multimedia/amarok/index.html

ugly alpha - Todd - 2008-07-13

It maybe only an alpha, but am I the only one to think the interface is ugly?

Congratulations - juanjux - 2008-07-13

My sincere congratulations to all of the Amarok team for the best jukebox-audio-player on any platform. Now prepare for my crash reports on the alpha :)