KDE Amarok 3.2 Music Player Released With Initial Qt6/KF6 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Amarok 3.2 Music Player Released With Initial Qt6/KF6 Support

Back in April was the release of the Amarok 3.0 music player for KDE after a six year hiatus and their first version ported to using the Qt5 toolkit and KDE Frameworks 5. Now in ending out 2024, the Amarok team has released an updated version of this open-source music player that provides initial support for the Qt6 toolkit and KDE Frameworks 6...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Amarok-3.2-Released

[bug77]

A valiant effort, but there enough holdouts out there that still listen to music from their own computer?

[cl333r]

A valiant effort, but there enough holdouts out there that still listen to music from their own computer?

I do 99% of the time. I got fast internet but when it disappears I freak out. And something only belongs to you if it's on your HDD, everything else is a service.

[skeevy420]

A valiant effort, but there enough holdouts out there that still listen to music from their own computer?

Yes. I got my driver's license back in the era of MP3 CDs and I've never migrated away from ensuring that I always have a good collection of music at my fingertips. Even when streaming services and smart phones became a thing I just alternated to PowerAmp and keeping my library synced up because the internet was still very spotty back in those days. It still is in some areas.

Plus, like cl333r pointed out, you don't have to worry about random songs being pulled because publishers and streaming services renegotiated their terms or new streaming services coming out and fragmenting the market and available content even further.

[M@GOid]

Not only I don't want to depend on the cloud for my music listening, I doubt there is any service(s) that can provide the niche stuff I have on my drives.

[bug77]

So, 4 people

[zerothruster]

Whether Amarok is the way to play local music is a different question. I build from source, and kde is excessively heavy as a dependency. So I use audacious (for qt, only a few parts of Qt6 are needed).

[zexelon]

Yeah....as bug77 said... like 4 or maybe 5 people. Spotify works flawlessly on Linux and even has some terminal only players for really funky edge case uses

They also have a killer API that can be tapped into.

All that said... I am the purest of pure music consumer I really dont have favorite artists or even genres, I like to just have the music running continuously... I can say they have some really esoteric genres. Having spent hours driving through complete network deadzones I can also say they have probably the best caching algorithms I have ever seen. Only had drop outs after really really long deadzone areas and even then you just back up to the beginning, it keep the songs there.

[bug77]

Whether Amarok is the way to play local music is a different question. I build from source, and kde is excessively heavy as a dependency. So I use audacious (for qt, only a few parts of Qt6 are needed).

Amarok does not depend on KDE. It depends on some KDE modules. There's several of them precisely because KDE is broken into small, modular pieces. But yeah, if you're uncomfortable with that, use whatever you want. Linux ftw!

[Party0445]

Yeah....as bug77 said... like 4 or maybe 5 people. Spotify works flawlessly on Linux and even has some terminal only players for really funky edge cases.

Dunno how you call yourself a music fan if you only listen using lossy codecs.

each their own I guess but maybe don’t generalise?