AImagendrew Lake, the main developer of Bangarang,  has announced the release of Bangarang 1.0 “The Basics”. Bangarang is a media player for KDE. The name comes from the Jamaican word for noisy, chaos or disorder.  Bangarang is a simple and stylish media player. The version 1.0 of Bangarang aims to introduce a basic functionality feature set.
Improvements since RC verison:
- Use correct Phonon audio output category (Music/Video) for the corresponding media type.


- Playback will attempt to continue with next item after encountering a phonon error during playback.

This latest release can be downloaded from opendesktop.org – it will be updated with packages as they become available.  Please report any issues you encounter on the issue tracker.  If you would like to package Bangarang for your distribution you can download the source tarball for the latest release from here.  You can also keep up with the latest development at the gitorious project development home.