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[News] Amarok 2.0.0 Gets Tagged for Release, Songbird 1.0 Reviewed

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- From the Post 2.0.0 Git Vaults, Amarok Urls and Bookmarks

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| Amarok 2.0.0 has been tagged! Short of any really bad bugs showing up the 
| release will be upon us shortly, just as soon as the packagers from the  
| different distros have had a chance to do their thing! This release has been 
| nearly 2 years in the making, and all of us developers have shed blood, sweat 
| and tears trying to make Amarok 2 live up to the vision that has driven us 
| all along. Overall, I am very pleased with the result.     
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http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/843-From-the-Post-2.0.0-Git-Vaults,-Amarok-Urls-and-Bookmarks.html

Songbird 1.0

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| Songbird is a good audio player, no doubt about it.
| 
| I only tested it for about an hour, but it seemed stable to me.
| 
| But I will never use it on my Ubuntu pc’s.
| 
| I’m a Compiz Fusion guy and like my apps to integrate with the DE (Desktop 
| Enviroment, aka Gnome). 
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http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/songbird-10/


Recent:

Music and browsing take flight in Songbird

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| Music and browsing mashup Songbird has kicked the remnants of its shell to
| the curb.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10111947-2.html


Songbird’s Open-Source Music Player Finally Takes Flight

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| Way back in February of 2006, I wrote about an early version of Songbird, a
| music-playing app that aspired to be an open-source rival to iTunes. I was
| guardedly positive. It took way longer than I would have guessed, but the
| Songbird folks finally unveiled an official version 1.0 of the application
| today. This final release bears surprisingly little resemblance to that first
| version. And while I’m still digging into it, I’m impressed.
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http://technologizer.com/2008/12/02/songbirds-open-source-music-player-finally-takes-flight/


Open Source iTunes Competitor Songbird Officially Released

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| Songbird is like an open source version of iTunes that handles just about
| everything that program does, while swapping out the iTunes store interface
| in favor of the world's music blogs.
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http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/12/songbird-the-op.html


10 of the Best Songbird Add-ons

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| The first stable version of Songbird has been unleashed. Considered by many
| as the Firefox of media players due to its extensibility, this open source
| iTunes replacement has a bright future ahead.
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http://www.junauza.com/2008/12/10-of-best-songbird-add-ons.html


A media player for the times: Songbird

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| After about two years in the works, Pioneers of the Inevitable have released
| Songbird, a Mozilla-based music player, with which, POTI aims to do for music
| what Mozilla did with Firefox: provide an open source customizable
| multiplatform music player.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/12/a-media-player-for-the-times-songbird/


Songbird 1.0.0 Released [Featured Download]

http://yabblog.com/2008/12/03/songbird-1/


Songbird gets ready to fly with 1.0 release candidate

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| The Songbird developers have contributed extensively to bring cross-platform
| support to GStreamer, an open source multimedia framework that is used
| extensively on Linux. GStreamer is now used as the Songbird media backend
| across all platforms, improving the performance and reliability of audio
| playback. In addition to supporting MP3, FLAC, and OGG across all platforms,
| GStreamer also supports WMA on Windows and AAC on Windows and Mac OS X.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/11/06/songbird-1-0-release-candidate-now-available


Amarok & NPR :: 13 Years of News Media Now Available at Your Fingertips

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| Earlier this summer I had noticed that National Public Radio (NPR) launched a
| brand new open API based on open source technologies. My initial reaction was
| at best skeptical. I assumed any sort of “API” released by a major media
| outlet would turn out to be nothing more than a few customizable RSS feeds.
| If the company was particularly progressive the RSS feeds might include full
| articles, rather than the neutered one-sentence teasers you find in all the
| big name’s syndicated content.
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http://www.binaryelysium.com/blog/2008/11/05/amarok-and-npr/


Amarok 2 Beta 2 screenshot review

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| A few days ago the second beta of Amarok 2 was finally released. I have to
| admit that a year ago I was looking forward for the final release. But now…
| I’m not at all (I guess it is because of Songbird).
|
| Anyway, this second beta release is much more better than previous versions:
| it works really fast, and there are many new features. For example, the
| developers decided to use MySQL instead of SQLite, collection statistics,
| stop after this track and much more.
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http://www.somgnu.org/amarok-2-beta-2-screenshot-review/


taksak - Amarok 2.0 Beta 3 released

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| It is that time again! The time where the world seems just a little brighter
| and happier, the sun shines just a little warmer and even though (at least in
| the northern hemisphere) winter is approaching fast, people are just that
| little bit more friendly towards each other. Yes, this can only mean one
| thing: it is time for another beta of Amarok 2.
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http://amarok.kde.org/en/node/559


There is a BBC in my Amarok

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| This script is now available from kde-apps.org or it can be automatically
| installed from within Amarok 2 by using the "Get More Scripts" button int the
| script manager.
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http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/826-There-is-a-BBC-in-my-Amarok.html


Amarok 2 Second Beta Released

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| The Amarok Squad is proud to announce the second beta release of Amarok 2.0.
| This release includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements, like the switch
| from SQlite to MySQL-embedded. The LibriVox service is back, as is lyrics
| support. Please read the release announcement for a detailed list of changes
| since the release of Beta 1 and more.
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http://dot.kde.org/1223401559/


Missing features in Amarok 2

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| Not all of Amarok 1.4's features will necessarily return in Amarok 2. Many
| features will be ported over, a lot of new features will be added, and some
| old features will simply be dumped for good. Amarok 2 isn't simply a souped
| up version of Amarok 1, but it's almost completely a new program, and you
| can't expect it to work exactly like 1.x. If we wanted that, we could simply
| have taken 1.x and stuck a big "2.0!" logo on it, and be done with it.
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http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/809-Missing-features-in-Amarok-2.html


Amarok, the music player that does it all

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| If you’re a big music lover, Amarok is definitely a program you should
| consider. It’s so terrific that I even had one friend who hates all things
| KDE admit that he used Amarok. So if you like doing everything you can with
| your media player, give Amarok a whirl.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/ubuntu_applications/amarok


amaroK: Music App for Linux Reviewed

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| 8 Reasons Why amaroK is Great.
|
| Personally, there are just so many reasons why I love using amaroK:
|
| 1. Album covers. One thing I love about amaroK is being able to
| easily "fetch" missing album covers with a few clicks of the mouse.
|
| 2. Suggestive listening. Some might even say it is creepy, how good the use
| of "Music Brainz" is within amaroK, but I enjoy it. Discover new music you
| have never even heard of and the chances are you will like it a lot.
|
| 3. Tracking your music habit. Dynamic playlists based on your own personal
| trends, statistics on what your favorite bands, songs and genres are.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2810&Itemid=449


First look: Amarok 2 alpha 1 looking strong

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| Despite some of the bugs and the weaknesses of the Plasma interface, Amarok 2
| is shaping up very well and is quite strong for an alpha release. It remains
| true to the vision that shaped its predecessor and delivers a feature-packed
| audio player that is aimed squarely at the power user. It rises above the
| iTunes mimicry that has become common among open source audio players and
| gives its users a truly unique experience.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080714-first-look-amarok-2-alpha-1-looking-strong.html
http://tinyurl.com/5qebbf


Amarok 2: Visual Changelog

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| Amarok multimedia player is one of the best programs of its kind not only for
| Linux but for any operating system nowadays. It has been created as a KDE
| component. Most people hoped to have Amarok 2.0 included in KDE 4.0, which
| hasn’t happened. It’s hard to predict if it finds its way into KDE 4.1
| stable, but it’s still worth taking a look at the current progress of this
| great multimedia player
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/amarok-2-visual-changelog/
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