Amarok 2.3 Beta 1 released

The Amarok Project developers have released the first beta for what will become version 2.3 of their popular open source music player for the KDE desktop, code named “Altered State”. According to the developers, they decided to release the next version of Amarok as version 2.3 instead of 2.2.3 because of the “considerable visual changes in the main toolbar, and many other improvements”.