I'm merrily sick of Amarok crashing on me, it happens 2 or 3 times a day, the bug reporting tool says that it doesn't contain any useful information so I reported it manually

Whoever was handling this report told me that I was using an outdated version and should update from v2.2.2

Fair enough, I open a terminal and run "yum update amarok' and eventually get a 'you already have the latest version, nothing to do' message.

So I come and have a look here for a way of getting the upgrade, the instructions are

- open a terminal and run 'yum install amarok'

I'm pretty sure I'm going to get another 'nothing to do' message

How might a frustrated Fedora user get a more recent non-crashing version of Amarok ?

Have you considered asking in a Fedora forum or IRC channel?

They probably know this better than we do

2.3 is definitely on the way. I have amarok-2.3.0-3.fc12.i686, but I run the unstable and testing repos of kde-fedora. This version came to us testers on Monday. I haven't noticed howls that users are finding any great problems with it, so I'd expect it to go into the main repos any day now.

Hmm - maybe they did find issues after all. I've just seen that amarok-2.3.0-5.fc12.i686 is queued, so it may be a day or two longer. Usually things move pretty fast once they get to this stage - it's often a matter of clearing up minor issues.

For future reference fedora-wise:

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yum update amarok --enablerepo updates-testing

will pull in the latest version of amarok from the updates-testing repo.

Also, the kde-redhat repo will often have beta and release builds (thanks rdieter!) sooner than the fedora updates/testing repos.
http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

Just note that impatience can sometimes have a price (they don't call it 'testing' for nothing), so backup your settings if you don't want to lose them.