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Amarok 2 Adds Video Support – Only Music Videos, Though

I’m a little late this time. At the end of May, Mark Kretschmann, the lead developer of Amarok, gave us Amarok fans a little surprise by adding integrated support for playing music videos within the Amarok window. The video looks perfectly integrated thanks to Plasma, and now you can manage you music videos along with your music collection, and not as a separate tab/section. Giving us this new candy, Mark clearly mentions that this video support will remain minimalistic, so that Amarok remains a music player and does not become a video player. Therefore, it won’t be including features like full-screen mode or DVD playback.

Later, in the first week of June, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen, another Amarok developer gave us a bonus gift by adding video podcast support using Mark’s Plasma Video applet. So now, in addition to the awesome music podcast collection that Amarok already has, you can expect your favorite video podcasts to be included. I think they will include options for watching streaming music videos from YouTube too. Lets cross our fingers and hope that Amarok 2 will be worth the wait.

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