Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released!

Linux@lemmy.ml – 59 points – 5 months ago

blogs.kde.org

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.

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