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.
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).
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.
Are they ever going to respect embedded lyrics?
I hope the followup is named “Wilson”
I wonder how it is compared to Clementine/Strawberry.
