Important changes in amarok 1.4.0:

* amarok-engine now exists as virtual dependency that is provided by 
any amarok-engine-XXX pkg

* amarok-engine-arts has become obsolete - RIP

* amarok-engine-gst is under heavy developement and not available for 
1.4.0 - it will be probably back in 1.4.1

* amarok-engine-xine is the only engine available at the moment for 
arch. 

* there exist other engines for amarok that are not yet packaged. 
namely they are amarok-engine-helix amarok-engine-nmm and 
amarok-engine-mas - the requirements for helix are fulfilled by the 
helixplayer pkg in AUR but we have not yet any NMM or MAS pkgs 
available - if somebody wants to play with them and contribute this 
amarok-engines, please take the amarok-engine-xine 1.4.0 PKGBUILD as 
template ==> discussion on additional amarok-engines is open! - one 
important thing to consider: the xine engine is the most stable and 
most featurefull at the moment... but there are probably people 
around that do not like xine... or people who have managed to make 
NMM compile under arch (i tried but it fails compiling on our 
gcc :-( ... if somebody wants to work on it, i have a PKGBUILD)

* additional dependencies to libifp libgpod libmp4v2 for support of 
iriver and apple portable music players and MP4/AAC format support

* libvisual is now not mandatory dependence any more (removing gtk2 
dependency), but keep in mind that visualisations will not work if 
you don't have libvisual + libvisual-plugins installed
 
enjoy!

greetings,
Damir

-- 
So stretch out your arms without delay
and give someone a hug today.

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