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.
It’s a music player, in case anyone’s wondering. More info at https://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.
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).
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.
Are they ever going to respect embedded lyrics?
Welp, just in time to get to KDE 6…
Iirc it was better to port through for backwards accessibility?
Sorry, I was just making a stupid joke, I’ve always liked Amarok, every time it stalls, it gives me a sad.
I hope the followup is named “Wilson”
I wonder how it is compared to Clementine/Strawberry.
