We are happy to announce the 1.2 Beta release for Plasma Media Center (PMC). This release comes with nifty new features and an improved media experience for your device!

New Features

• Even easier to use All Music mode
• Automatic Artist and Album cover download
• Folder previews for Browse Pictures mode
• Multiple Playlist support
• Keyboard support for media controls [Mute, (Z)Prev, Next]
• Refactored common components for media browsers (for developers)

In addition to these, there were bug fixes to ascertain consistency in behavior

Screenshots

    

Artist Image                                                                         Album cover

     

Folder previews                                                              Multiple Playlists

Install

• Source tarball link  – http://download.kde.org/unstable/plasma-mediacenter/1.1.9/src/plasma-mediacenter-1.1.9.tar.bz2.mirrorlist
• Please follow instruction to install Plasma Media Center on your machine.

Wiki

To know more about Plasma Media Center, check out the wiki http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center

Bugs

Found any bug in PMC or want to have your favourite feature included in future release? file a bug to  https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=plasma-mediacenter&format=guided

We want you!

Please try out Plasma Media Center and let us know what can be improved or added in order to make final release more cool and awesome!

Cheers!