Amarok 2.1 Beta 1 released
Friday, April 10th, 2009Amarok 2.1 will come with many new features and some old favourites. The Beta 1 release gives you a sneak preview of all these improvements.
Major new features include a new, completely user configurable playlist with an easy to use drag-and-drop editor, cue sheet support, a new take on managing applets in the Context View, bookmarks – allowing you, among other things, to save and share favorite finds in the services, support for showing radio stations with many alternate streams as one track in the playlist, much faster startup when reloading large playlists containing non local tracks, as well as many other improvements, UI tweaks and bug fixes across the board.
Compiling the amarok 2.1 beta 1 tarball on Fedora 10 / 9:
sudo yum groupinstall buildsys-build
sudo yum install cmake subversion kdelibs4-devel phonon-devel mysql-embedded-devel strigi-devel taglib-devel
For the mysql-embedded : F10 already has it but for F9 users try the following step:
sudo yum install kde-redhat unstable
Download the 2.1 beta 1 tarball from http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download:Source
tar xjf amarok-2.0.90.tar.bz2 cd amarok-2.0.90 mkdir amarok-2.0.90-build cd amarok-2.0.90-build cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull make sudo make install
You’re done! Type amarok to start Amarok. The 2.1 release will be simply awesome!!!
Update from Rex: “Just stuffed amarok-2.0.90 into kde-redhat/unstable too (F-10 only atm, F-9 builds shortly)”. If you don’t want to enable the kde-redhat repo, you can still install amarok directly (for fedora 10):
# sudo rpm -Uvh http://mirror.unl.edu/kde-redhat/fedora/10/i386/RPMS.unstable/amarok-2.0.90-2.fc10.i386.rpm http://mirror.unl.edu/kde-redhat/fedora/10/i386/RPMS.unstable/amarok-utilities-2.0.90-2.fc10.i386.rpm