Het programma amaroK is een populaire audiospeler voor KDE en beschikt over uitgebreide mogelijkheden. Zo kan je eenvoudig playlists aanmaken, songteksten zoeken op het internet en zonder enige belemmering mp3-tags aanpassen. Het heeft ondersteuning aan boord voor Podcasting, audioscrobbler, streaming van een KIO-bron en verschillende backends zoals GStreamer, xine, NMM en MAS. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 1.4 met de titel 'Fast Forward' uitgebracht en voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:
The amaroK team has cut the brake lines in their eternal quest to bring you the BEST audio experience ever, and there's no turning back! The most eagerly anticipated event of the 2006 multimedia calendar has finally arrived -- amaroK 1.4 "Fast Forward" is officially off the leash, and racing to a distro near you.
Those of you who have helped us test the new amaroK via beta versions and SVN will have had a sneak peek at the new features, but for everyone else, here's the lowdown:For a full-featured guide of hottest new stuff, including screenshots, have a look at the What's new in 1.4 page.
- Tagging support for all major audio formats (OGG, MP3, MP4, FLAC and RM)
- Enhanced media device support (iPod® IFP/IRiver®, generic devices)
- Reworked tagging dialog for better management of the collection
- Non-KDE users are now able to set their default browser without installing KDEBase
- Consistent and independent icon set
- Option to view wikipedia articles in another language by default
- Gapless playback for the xine engine
- User-based rating system
- More options to configure the sidebar
As this is the probably last series before amaroK 2.0 which will be based on Qt 4.x and aims to be released at the same time as KDE 4.0 we hope you like the Fast Forwarding amaroK. Though if you experience problems we would be really glad if you could do a bug report at http://bugs.kde.org so that 1.4 becomes roK stable, as an amaroK actually should be.