Amarok 是 Linux/Unix 平台下十分出众的音乐播放器.在发布了Alpha2后,开发人员直接公布了Beta1,Amarok 2 中已实现的新功能包括:
    * 更为协调的播放列表;
    * 艺术家能够与更多的流派关联;
    * 可以使用礼品卡代替信用卡从 Magnatune 购买音乐;
    * 专辑选择器支持 OpenGL;
    * 中间最大的区域切换为使用 Plasma,即 KDE 4 中的新桌面及 Widget 技术;

下载：http://download.kde.org/unstable/amarok/1.90/src/amarok-1.90.tar.bz2

Features

• Inline editing of tracks in the Collection is now possible.
• Album moves can be undone
• Grouped albums can be moved in the playlist by draggin the album header
• Track moves in the playlist can now be undone
• Gapless playback.
• New "fuzzy" bias type, which matches values loosely.
• Collection Setup automatically expands to show selected directories. (BR 123637)
• Tag editing and file deletion for MTP devices
• Add toolbox to context view
• Allow selecting multiple playlist items.
• Implement "Move to collection" functionality in file browser.
• Saving/loading of biased playlists.
• Improved script console
• Set items in directory selector to partially checked when relevant. patch by Sebastian Trueg
• Album is now added to the playlist when clicked in Albums applet.
• Trigger play/pause when middle-clicking systray icon. (BR 167162)
• New start flag --multipleinstances allows to run multiple instances of Amarok.
• Full cover support for Nepomuk collection
• Search local collection for albums to show in the album applet when playing non local content
• Context view state is saved on exit and restored on start up.
• New functions available to the scripting interface, under Amarok.Info.

Changes

• New filename scheme widget in the Organize Collection dialog.
• New laylout of the main toolbar using the new graphics.
• Greatly reduced memory usage when using dynamic playlists.
• Reworked layout and more intuitive interface in the Guess Tags from Filenames dialog.
• New artwork by Nuno Pinheiro
• Better zooming animation in the context view
• Better usage of the available space in the context view.
• Show url in the playlist if track has no name. patch by Edward Hades

Bugfixes

• Fix crash when dragging media from an external source (or the file browser) to the playlist (BR 169035)
• Fix crash when opening the setting dialog (BR 169215)
• Many fixes to the behavior of the playlist when dragging things around.
• Don't pop up multiple cover search dialogs when cancelling search in the Cover Manager (BR 167462)
• Amarok would not respect the user's changes in the cover search dialog.
• Amarok would submit tracks to lastfm reguardless of whether the user chose to enable scrobbling.
• OSD translucency works now. (BR 166567)
• Use name based sorting of tracks without a track number (fixes sorting in shoutcast and cool streams services)
• Don't try to scan the whole $HOME on first startup.
• Don't pop up the OSD after changing Amarok settings. (BR: 168197)
• Fix crash when exiting while collection scan was running. (BR 167872)
• Automatically re-authenticate connection if the Ampache server has logged us out. (BR 166958)
• Status bar now allows shrinking main window beyond it's width and does not enlarge main window by itself. Patch by Daniel Molkentin
• Submit tracks to Last.fm also when playing Last.fm Radio. (BR 164156)
• Check if the file is writable before allowing the tags to be edited in SqlMeta. ( BR 122797 )
• Properly insert items dragged from the collection view. (BR: 166609)
• Don't remove all the tracks in the group when removing the first. (BR: 167251)
• Only increment playcount if we've played more than half of the song. (BR 121587)
• Added protection against endless looping when a playlist contains only unplayable tracks.
• Missing default playlist does not produce error message now. (BR 167385)
• Fixed playlist bias drop-down box showing multiple empty and duplicate entries. (BR 167153)
• Fixed the "Toggle Main Window" shortcut. (BR 167218)
• Script manager now could stop scripts which use qt bindings.
• Fix crash when calling GetCaps from the DBus Player interface
• Update album applet on track change. (BR 167256)

Packages are available through your package manager for most Linux distributions and trough the KDE-on-Windows installer on Windows.

If you want to help us get Amarok 2.0 ready for final release drop by in #amarok or #rokymotion on freenode. We will appreciate any kind of help from translating, documentation writing through writing code and promoting.

Enjoy beta 1 and watch as the wolf is growing :-)
The Amarok 2 FAQ addresses some of the questions you might have about Amarok 2.