Project Neon is the best solution for people who desire to have the new nightly builds service for Amarok. Following the simple instructions contained in Project Neon you will able to enjoy the last developing packages for Amarok 2.0 without waiting the release of the stable version. Project Neon also provides simple instructions to install Amarok 2.0 on your Ubuntu in just five minutes. Last but not least, it is necessary to remember that Amarok 2.0 is not in its final version  yet and it could potentially create some serious problems on your PC. To install it just add: deb ... hardy main in your sources (/etc/apt/sources.list) and the install it using the following command lines: $ sudo apt-get uptdate $ sudo apt-get install amarok-nightly Enjoy it!

We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec.

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python.It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.

VLC media player (originariamente chiamato VideoLAN Client) è un media player del progetto VideoLAN. VLC supporta molti codec audio e video, formati file come DVD, VCD e vari protocolli per lo streaming. Può essere utilizzato anche come server per trasmettere in stream, in unicast o in multicast su IPv4 o su IPv6 su un network a larga banda. Il media player impiega la libreria codec libavcodec del progetto FFmpeg per maneggiare molti dei formati supportati, ed utilizza la libreria di decriptazione DVD libdvdcss per gestire i playback dei DVD cifrati