1y ago

Amarok, KDE's legendary music player, is out with version 3.0.1.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/06/02/amarok-3.0.1-released/

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KDE has a lot of music players
- Amarok, Elisa and JuK. That's three, which is a lot, but it's not entirely uncommon for KDE to have three (or more) applications with a similar purpose.
  
  You're forgetting Clementine which was developed as a replacement for Amarok when it got all shitty.
What is the difference to Elisa really?
I used Elisa and found it quite unusable for folder-structured music.
I only used folder structures as I found no say so sync .m3u playlists including the music files between Android and Linux. Finding a way here would be great.
- I tried Clementine for a while, but I didn't like how careless the developers were with privacy and security. For example, quietly downloading and executing a Spotify blob (even when I don't use Spotify), and sending pings to a geolocation service without my permission.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Did Librewolf borrow the logo from Amarok?
I'm pretty happy with Cantata for now, but if it ever fails me, it's nice to know Amarok might be a decent alternative.
- I've been using Clementine ever since Amarok shit the bed way back when. Actually there may have been a gap before Clementine was released because I remember trying a few other players that I didn't like so much.
- Cantata ftw !!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Trying it out today, I had a flashback that reminded why I loved this player so much: when I pressed the "pause" button, instead of immediately cutting off, the track gradually faded into silence.
It was not the smorgasbord of features, but the small things like this that set Amarok head and shoulders above all other players. Can't wait to see it brought up to speed again.
- Yeah those glossy buttons etc don't fit in with the flat breeze theme at all. Looks like an unholy child of windows Vista and KDE 5
  
  It's not the theme, it's that it has 5 panels visible with vague hirerarchy. Music players shouldn't look like IDEs
  
  I don't use the UI much. once its playing. Keyboard shortcuts to pause/restart.
- And there was already a style change 😅
  I'd really like to know where Kde is heading style wise (I'm a regular donor)
  
  One of my biggest gripes about Linux in general is that none of the DEs can settle on a UI kit. I get WHY, but ffs, this is a major set back for various apps.
I always understood it was a powerful audio player but, I could never figure it out. Rhythmbox just works and gets out of the way 🤷‍♂️
- Yeah but Rhythmbox is GNOME and Amarok is KDE :)
Is this any good for library management and syncing to portable music players?
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Amarok has and will always have a place in my heart. Great music player.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social TELL ME OF THE LEGEND OF AMAROK!
Who let the dogs out amiright
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social hopefully someone will pick it up and package it for Debian again.
It's cool. But the music player landscape has changed so much, I just don't need library features and what not anymore. I find myself just queueing things in MPV using a terminal in a directory full of music, launching playlists and stuff. I've tried a ton of music players for Linux, from Amarok to Cmus, and I find that it's all cruft and all you need is a media player and at best a file manager.
- How well works qobuz with mpv. Strawberry

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