Amarok 2.1 Beta 2 is now available

Amarok 2.1 Beta 2 is now available

Amarok developers have announced the release of second beta of their upcoming Amarok 2.1 release.

This release comes with tons of bug fixes in addition to some user interface changes.

Updates from the first beta:

Features
New Script method to get current track time in milliseconds. (BR 177073)

Changes
Pressing the return key in the playlist search activates the selected result. (BR 192126)
Pressing the escape key in the playlist search clears it’s contents. (BR 192123)
Optimizations to the insertion and removal of large numbers of tracks from the playlist. Especially clearing a large playlist is now about 300 times faster.
Always scroll to newly inserted tracks in the Playlist.
When removing upcoming tracks from an active dynamic playlist, add a similar number of new ones to keep if from “drying up”.
Some action cleanup in the playlist context menu.
When clearing the playlist, also reset the search/filter text.
Podcast titles are stripped of unnecessary whitespace. (BR 177403)

Bugfixes
Fixed incorrect track counts in the collection.
Fixed duplicate scanning of playlists during collection scan
Fixed drag and drop to other applications. (BR 177415)
Fixed the filter widget in the Files browser. (BR 176139)
Fixed crash when using context menu after collection update. (BR 190056)
Fixed problem with Amarok showing wrong track length for Last.fm streams. Patch by Michael Quinn . (BR 188512)
Fixed several memory leaks.
Set the value of the slider to the actual scale when loading a fuzzy Bias playlist, instead of 100% in every case
Don’t fetch all coverless albums automatically when opening the Cover Manager. (BR 176170)
Podcast episodes are loaded correctly when restoring a playlist on startup. This means the local file will be played if downloaded. (BR 189328)
Next button in the main toolbar no longer has a clipped shadow. (BR 176031)
Fixed slider mouse events in RTL layouts. (BR 185465)
Detect iPhones as iPods. (BR 184744)
Clicking on “Stop after current track” disables the flag if it is already enabled.
Show a track marker when the “stop after current track” flag is set. (BR 185888)
Don’t flash the OSD when opening the settings dialog. Patch thanks to Andreas Heider .
Podcast file formats are correctly displayed.
Don’t crash when pressing Delete on empty playlist. (BR 189021)

Checkout: Amarok 2.1 Beta 2 released