New Features Coming in Amarok 2.3.1

Amarok is one of the best music player available for Linux. The latest stable release, Amarok 2.3 brought some cool new features and much needed improvments. Due to the extremely short release cycle that Amarok has, development for the next release, i.e. Amarok 2.3.1, has already been started.

The Amarok team has decided to put in some cool new features for the next release, Amarok 2.3.1. Three of the most exciting new features that is coming in Amarok 2.3.1 are CoverBling, Similar Artists & Upcoming Events and Smart Playlist.

CoverBling

CoverBling is a new applet which will allow you to browser your album collection in an animated 3D view. This is like the Cover Flow feature that iTune has. This is one feature that I am very excited about.

Similar Artists & Upcoming Events

Similar Artists applet displays a list of artist which are similar to the one you are playing. The Upcoming Event applet displays future events like concerts for the artist that is currently playing. Both of these applets fetch their information from Last.fm.

Automated Playlist Generator

This new feature allows smart creation of playlists that matches user defined constrain. It combines the “Smart Playlist” from Amarok 1.4 with the Bias System from amarok 2.0.

These are the major new features being introduced in Amarok 2.3.1. However, there are other new features and improvements. You can check them out here.

[via Amarok Blog]

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