Download amaroK 1.4

The amaroK program is a popular audio player for KDE and features extensive possibilities. This way you can easily create playlists, search for song lyrics on the internet and adjust MP3 tags without any hindrance. It has onboard support for Podcasting, audio scrobbler, streaming from a KIO source and various backends such as GStreamer, xine, NMM and MAS. The developers have released version 1.4 titled “Fast Forward” with the following announcement:

The amaroK team has cut the brake lines in their eternal quest to bring you the BEST audio experience ever, and there’s no turning back! The most eagerly anticipated event of the 2006 multimedia calendar has finally arrived — amaroK 1.4 “Fast Forward” is officially off the leash, and racing to a distro near you.

Those of you who have helped us test the new amaroK via beta versions and SVN will have had a sneak peek at the new features, but for everyone else, here’s the lowdown:

• Tagging support for all major audio formats (OGG, MP3, MP4, FLAC and RM)
• Enhanced media device support (iPod® IFP/IRiver®, generic devices)
• Reworked tagging dialog for better management of the collection
• Non-KDE users are now able to set their default browser without installing KDEBase
• Consistent and independent icon set
• Option to view wikipedia articles in another language by default
• Gapless playback for the xine engine
• User-based rating system
• More options to configure the sidebar

For a full-featured guide of hottest new stuff, including screenshots, have a look at the What’s new in 1.4 page.

As this is the probably last series before amaroK 2.0 which will be based on Qt 4.x and aims to be released at the same time as KDE 4.0 we hope you like the Fast Forwarding amaroK. Though if you experience problems we would be really glad if you could do a bug report at so that 1.4 becomes roK stable, as an amaroK actually should be.