New features in Amarok 2.4 Beta 1

Just a short video introducing some new features in latest beta of Amarok.

Here is the full list of new features: * Transcoding: Now you can convert tracks from one file format to another when copying from the file browser to the local collection. We will expand this to media devices in future releases. * Shiny new collection scanner, rewritten from scratch - it should now detect compilations in a more robust way * Writing back to tags: there is now an option to have Amarok write statistics and album covers to the files directly, so you can save your play counts and tags in the files themselves. * The ability to show and hide the menu bar * Mass-tagging UI using Musicbrainz * The ability to use iPod Touch 3G and possibly newer devices * A new applet for guitar and bass tab information * A map and calendar view for the upcoming events applet * A new Playdar collection that lets you listen to music provided by a local Playdar service

Music is Jojo Wiese - The Seventh Sense
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/JoJo_Wiese

Learn more about Amarok:
http://amarok.kde.org/en

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[C1rp3Di3m]

Can I change the look of Amarok, like Amarok 1.4? I watched a video with an Amarok like 1.4 but window(color,icons,etc) was like Amarok 2.x.This video: watch?v=T3ID2CbtnKk

[skf1n]

@C1rp3Di3m I think it's 1.4... Afaik you cant have that non-plasma-based lyrics view and stuff in 2.*

[AggressivePrefector]

Looks nice. Lots of features. Can it handle 70,000+ songs like media monkey?

[skf1n]

@AggressivePrefector I dont know, I currently have 30,000+ songs on my library, I tried once something like 40,000+ but 70,000 is quite much :)

[thething75191]

how is the performance? better or worse than the previous amarok?

[skf1n]

@thething75191 Performance of Amarok has been alway good, but I can notice a small improvement on speed when starting to play music.

[C1rp3Di3m]

@skf1n Ok . Thank you.