Amarok 2.2.2 Beta 1 / 2.2.1

A summer which has been quite busy for the whole Amarok team, implementing new features, fixing bugs

All elements of your preferred music player have been worked on. The changelog is indeed quite huge and impressive. Amarok is now available with its new and improved browser layout on the left and the brand new videoclip applet providing you with music videos for your favorite songs from various websites. A new photo applet shows pictures related to the current artist to get you in the right mood. Many of the other context applets have also received huge updates.

Left, right, middle... how boring. Well, you can now change the layout of the different elements and place those where *you* want to have them! You can even place elements on top of each other and switch between them using tabs. Is the toolbar too big for your taste? Then just try out the brand new toolbarNG. Of course we didn't stop at the visual enhancements. We also improved the collection scanner and eliminated some errors there. You can now rate your music in the collection view, the current track applet and also in the playlist. Do you have a media device? Plug it in and it will show up in the collection browser. Want to play a CD? Just put it in your drive and it will appear in the collection browser, allowing you to either play it directly or copy the tracks to your harddrive.

The playlist also has a ton of new features to offer. It now offers advanced multi level sorting with an intuitive interface, full or partial shuffling and the option to change the way tracks are grouped together. All these different playlist settings can be stored together as a bookmark and easily applied again later, so for instance if grouping tracks by composer, you can also apply a playlist layout that shows composer and not album related information in the group header. Speaking of bookmarks, both the content browser and the playlist now have a very simple interface to store and recall bookmarks; and for editing, grouping and deleting bookmarks, the bookmark manager has been greatly improved and is now accessible from the tools menu.

In the "Saved Playlists" category you will find imported playlist files discovered in the collection folders during scanning. When you change these in Amarok the files on disk will now also change.
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Floola 5.3.1

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It's a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Windows Vista is supported).
Floola supports all common used iPod features including photos, artwork, podcasts and smart playlists!
It automatically converts any incompatible audio or video file so that you can copy almost any file to it. It even allows adding youtube and myspace videos with a single click!

Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.
Features
Cross plattform
Works on any Windows (98 and above), any Mac and any linux distribution with GTK installed.
Portable
Put the application on iPod and launch it on any PC, immediately.
Copy
add and extract songs to and from iPod.
Playlists
Easily manage, import and export (m3u, pls) playlists.
Last.fm
Join the social music revolution.
Podcasts
Join the social music revolution.
Web videos
add files to iPod just copying the page url
Localization
Available in different languages.
Lyrics
Lyric support even on older iPods (3G and above).
Search for duplicates
Easily find duplicated songs on iPod.
Search lost files
Easily find songs lost in your iPod.
Artwork
Add artwork to your songs easily.
Videos
Videos can be added to iPod.
Convert
Convert audio and video incompatible formats
Export to HTML
Create HTML files containing list of your iPod files
Fix iPod
Did a software mess up your iPod? Fix it!
Notes
Manage notes.
Growl support
(Mac version only) Get beautiful system notifications.
Snarl support
(Windows version only) Get beautiful system notifications.
Music
Play iPod's music.
Photos
Freedom to simply add photos to iPod.
Latest changes
# new ffmpeg version (windows only)
# minor issues with iteminfo window
# more consistent autocomplete feature in iteminfo window
# delete exception
# fixed some minor issues with photo feature
# faster quit
# fixed artist/album mixup issue
# swedish translation update
# fixed issue searching for certain characters
# fixed issue downloading certain podcasts (ex. CNN)
# issue editing song tags
# photos were not deleted from ithmb files
# fixed minor bugs in photo managing window
# issue with main listbox columns
# podcast downloading issue when loosing focus
# writes also filetype to db
# ffmpeg paramater issues (mac+win)
# improved photo db handling
# issues copying photos when fullres is not available
# invisible files on copy (windows)
# last.fm tracks played in Floola had wrong timestamp
# Korean translation added
# synch folder wrong file count
# PHOTO SUPPORT
# last.fm startup submission improved
# last.fm "now playing" multiple track submission
# last.fm "now playing" support
# reset last.fm
# audioscrobbler protocol 1.2
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HandBrake 0.9.3

DVD to MPEG-4 converter

Details:
Supported sources:

* Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
* Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

* File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
* Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
* Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

* Chapter selection
* Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
* Integrated bitrate calculator
* Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
* Grayscale encoding

Credits

HandBrake uses a lot of (L)GPL librairies from the Linux world:

* liba52 (AC3 decoding)
* libavcodec (decoding, picture cropping, scaling and deinterlacing, MPEG-4 encoding)
* libdvdread (DVD navigation)
* libfaac (AAC encoding)
* libmp3lame (MP3 encoding)
* libmp4v2 (MP4 muxing)
* libmpeg2 (MPEG-2 decoding)
* libogg (OGM muxing)
* libsamplerate (audio resampling)
* libvorbis (Vorbis encoding)
* libx264 (H264 encoding)
* libxvidcore (MPEG-4 encoding)
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