Download Amarok 2.6

The developers of Amarok have released version 2.6. This audio player features extensive options for playing and organizing music. Downloads are not only available for Linuxbut also for Windows. Version 2.6 brings, among other things, improved support for Apple devices, there is album art for ogg and flac files and of course several problems have been fixed. The complete list of changes and improvements is up this page to find. This is the announcement for this release:

Amarok 2.6 “In Dulci Jubilo” Released

Let’s rejoice and celebrate: Amarok 2.6 is here! The Amarok Team is proud to present you the result of their work over the last 7 months. With a reasonable set of new features, we focused this release on bug fixing and improving the overall stability, making this the most stable Amarok release ever. The new features are:

• A complete overhaul of the iPod, iPad and iPhone support including solid support for device playlists (however, underlying library, libgpod, still doesn’t support iOS 5 devices completely)
• Transcoding for iPod-like and USB Mass Storage devices that complements transcoding for Local Collection
• The Free Music Chart service is now activated by default
• Embedded Cover support for Ogg and Flac files
• Album Art support for tracks on the filesystem and USB Mass Storage devices
• And of course numerous bug fixes

It should be noted that unless you upgrade from 2.6 Beta or Release Candidate, a database update will run on first start. This procedure, that shouldn’t be interrupted, can run up to a couple minutes on large collections with thousands of tracks.

Amarok 2.6 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.