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submitted 4 months ago by m4@kbin.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

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 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] superfes@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Welp, just in time to get to KDE 6...

[-] optissima@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Iirc it was better to port through for backwards accessibility?

[-] superfes@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Are they ever going to respect embedded lyrics?

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

I hope the followup is named "Wilson"

[-] sfera@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

I wonder how it is compared to Clementine/Strawberry.

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