Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released!
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.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/04/29/amarok-3.0-castaway-released/
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.
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