Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
Must be fun to be done porting it to qt5 and realize qt6 is now the default. :)
Qt6 will be collecting bugfixes for another year yet. I’m not saying they should take another 5 years but there’s no hurry.
Qt 6 has been out for more than three years now.
The amount of new bugs introduced since Qt 6 is embarassingly, staggeringly massive. It has only very recently started going down to where it is becoming usable. But every new release breaks something new so /shrug
Oh man, it’s been a grip since I’ve heard Amarok mentioned. Very exciting.
What about Elisa? I was under the (potentially mistaken) assumption that Elisa was the successor of Amarok.
Elisa is just the latest (and most actively developed) addition to the long list of music players developed under the KDE umbrella.
I guess Strawberry or Clementine are the real successors.
Clementine ia also semi-abandoned. Which is why Strawberry was forked to begin with. Clementine has an rc branch that sees some infrequent work from one guy (last in Oct 2023) but Strawberry is actively developed (including support for Qt6).
Si, correcto. Strawberry is solid.
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Elisa wasn’t really meant to be an Amarok successor, it just kinda turned out that way because Elisa popped up around the time of the Plasma 5 release while Amarok never made the Qt5 transition. There were other reasons for Amarok’s death (before its recent revival), though Elisa could be considered a factor.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
But the Amarok developers hope to begin porting to Qt6 and KF6 in the coming months with potentially having that more incremental update ready still this calendar year in beta form.
Much of Amarok’s Qt5/KF5 porting was complete nearly a decade ago but the project stalled a bit in more recent years while back in 2021 was the 3.0 alpha release.
Today’s Amarok 3.0 release announcement notes: "Common usecases should work quite well, and in addition to fixing KF5 port related regressions reported in pre-releases, 3.0 features many bugfixes and implemented features for longstanding issues, the oldest such documented being from 2009.
It might well be that getting them in better state wouldn’t require huge effort, however, so if you know your way with Qt and KDE Frameworks and your favourite Internet music service does not work with Amarok 3.0, you are extremely welcome to join in and help!
Work on porting to Amarok to Qt6/KDE Frameworks 6 should start in the following months, the goal being to have a usable Qt6/KF6 based beta version in 2024 still."
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