plugin support to allow better integration into Amarok. Migration from the KDE 3 to KDE Software Compilation 4, and utilization of core technologies such as Solid, Phonon, and Plasma. The user interface had been redesigned to make context information like lyrics and albums from the same artist more accessible and allow the user to decide which information is available by adding applets to the Context View in the middle. Changes since version 1.4 Service Framework: This integrates networked music sources directly into Amarok. This includes online music stores, media servers, Web music lockers, and more. Due to this the users can get easy access to music provided by Magnatune, Jamendo, Last.fm, MP3Tunes Locker and Ampache. Biased Playlists: Biased Playlists extend the old Dynamic Playlists. They allow users to define an automatically populated playlist, based on specific probability-driven criteria called "biases". Context View: This view occupies the central place of the Amarok's window, replacing the old Context Browser from the 1.x series. It displays contextual information about the music one plays, like the album cover, track rating, labels, lyrics, artist information, related songs and artists and track mood. Other Features: Additional changes in Amarok 2.0 include a new SVG-based scalable theme, advanced scripting, dynamic collections, usability changes, updated media device handling, new podcast manager and support for more software platforms. Forks and variations The transition from version 1.4 to version 2 was criticized by many users. As a consequence, some new projects have been established, based on Amarok version 1.4.x. Amarok Live was a live CD Linux distribution created as a co-promotion with magnatune.com to promote the idea of Free Software and Open Music. The self-bootable CD was distributed with songs mostly selected from the Magnatune library by the developers. Clementine is a fork of Amarok 1.4 to port it to the Qt 4 framework. Exaile is a GTK+ clone of Amarok 1.4. Gereqi is a clone of Amarok 1.4, written in PySide. Pana was a fork of Amarok 1.4. The intention was to keep the original program alive. The author has now discontinued the project. Release history References External links 2003 software Applications using D-Bus Audio player software that uses Qt Extragear Free audio software Free media players Free multilingual software Free software programmed in C++ Jukebox-style media players KDE Applications Linux media players MacOS media players Online music database clients Windows multimedia software no:Liste over KDE-programmer#Amarok