Minirok 2.0 out, apparently popular among disenchanted Amarok users

Yesterday I released Minirok 2.0, which is basically a port of Minirok 0.9 to KDE4, with a couple nice features thrown in, like undo support in the playlist, which I can’t live without.

Minirok is a very simple audio player written in Python and modeled after Amarok 1.4 (the interface is almost identical). I’ve been told by several people already that they’ve happily migrated to it from Amarok, after being dissatisfied with the 2.x series. Beware, though, that Minirok is very simple, has limited functionality by design, and may not be what you’re looking for. For example, there’s no collection built from tags, only a tree view of the filesystem. See the homepage for details.

Minirok is known to work well with KDE 4.2 and Qt 4.5, which are both in Jaunty and Squeeze already, but it should work with KDE 4.1 and Qt 4.4 as well. The package is already in unstable, feel free to grab it from here for other distrubtions.

A note for users upgrading from 0.9: Last.fm submissions are disabled by default now, instead of enabling themselves opportunistically upon the presence of lastfmsubmitd (which could be not configured). If you want Minirok to continue submitting to Last.fm, you’ll have to enable it in the preferences dialog.