Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released! (blogs.kde.org)
from m4@kbin.social to linux@lemmy.ml on 29 Apr 2024 20:31
https://kbin.social/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/993906

The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 “Castaway”! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.

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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml on 29 Apr 2024 22:09 next collapse

Amarok has been around for a long time. I’ve never used it much but I remember the name.

The road to 3.0 has not been a short one. Much of the Qt5/KF5 porting was done in 2015 already, but finishing and polishing everything up has been a slow, sometimes ongoing and sometimes stalled process ever since.

Wow. Almost 10 years for the polishing porting to Qt5, and now KDE based on Qt6 has just been released. I didn’t know that Amarok supported scripting, interesting (Imagine having a cronjob or systemd timer to slowly fade away the music).

jonne@infosec.pub on 29 Apr 2024 23:01 collapse

I used to use it back in the day, but I switched to streaming and don’t really have a use for a desktop music player any more.

It was good (smart playlists being a killer feature), but didn’t quite look like other apps.

GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org on 29 Apr 2024 22:30 next collapse

It’s a music player, in case anyone’s wondering. More info at apps.kde.org/amarok/

In five paragraphs of text there is no description of what the program does in the blog post . Pretty common for open-source blogs and release notes, but I always find it funny. At least this one has a screenshot.

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works on 29 Apr 2024 22:57 next collapse

Are they ever going to respect embedded lyrics?

superfes@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 21:33 next collapse

Welp, just in time to get to KDE 6…

optissima@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 21:50 collapse

Iirc it was better to port through for backwards accessibility?

superfes@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 22:04 collapse

Sorry, I was just making a stupid joke, I’ve always liked Amarok, every time it stalls, it gives me a sad.

electricprism@lemmy.ml on 01 May 2024 02:31 next collapse

I hope the followup is named “Wilson”

sfera@beehaw.org on 10 May 2024 10:41 collapse

I wonder how it is compared to Clementine/Strawberry.