Sinnykumari 

The KDE community has a Christmas gift for you! We are happy to announce the release of KDE's Plasma Media Center 1.2—your first stop for media and entertainment created by the Elves at KDE. Plasma Media Center is designed to provide an easy and comfortable way to watch your videos, browse your photo collection and listen to your music, all in one place. This release brings many refinements and a host of new features, making consuming media even easier and more fun.

New Features and Improvements

Working with feedback from users since the previous release, the team has implemented many cool new features and a variety of improvements and bug fixes.Improved Music Mode A lot of effort went into improving the All Music mode so that you will have a good time navigating through your music—search by artist, album or just see it all.

Artist and Album Cover Retrieval From now on, your collection will look better and it will be quicker to locate that album you want to listen to. While PMC already used album covers contained in your music files, this new release enables PMC to go to last.fm and fetch new album covers and artist images!

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We are proud to announce the first release (1.0.0) of Plasma Media Center. Built on Plasma and KDE technologies. Designed to offer a rich experience to media enthusiasts.

Features

KDE's Plasma Media Center (PMC) is aimed towards a unified media experience on PCs, Tablets, Netbooks, TVs and any other device that is capable of running KDE software. PMC can be used to view images, play music or watch videos. Media files can be on the local filesystem or accessed with KDE’s Desktop Search. This stable release of PMC has a basic set of features:

• Browse the local filesystem for media
• Use KDE Desktop Search to get a unified view of all available media
• View photos from flickr, picasa
• Create playlists from available media, play sequentially or randomly
• Developers can create custom plugins for PMC!

Videos & more screenshots

PMC on a tablet Desktop PMC More screenshots

Install

Get the 1.0.0 release. Ubuntu and Fedora build instructions.

Wiki

To know more about Plasma Media Center, check out the wiki.

Bugs

Please report bugs or issues at the KDE Bug Tracker or catch up with the PMC team in the #plasma channel on freenode IRC.

Newest stuff

Get the latest and greatest from PMC.

Coming Up

There are already lots of improvements in PMC that will be part of an upcoming release. Please file feature requests at http://bugs.kde.org/ or contact PMC developers at plasma-devel@kde.org.

Thanks

To Aaron Seigo, Alessandro Diaferia, Deepak Mittal, Fabian Riethmayer, Lukas Appelhans, Marco Martin, Onur-Hayri Bakici, Shantanu Tushar, Sinny Kumari, Sudhendu Kumar, Sujith H and everyone else who made Plasma Media Center possible.

Please give PMC a try and let us know how we can improve it. Keep the comments coming :)

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