KDE @lemmy.kde.social KDE @floss.social 1mo 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.
Man Amarok was amazing back in the day, but that was many days ago.

It still might be good, and kudos for the effort, but Clementine has already surpassed Amarok. It would be nice to the effort going to either Continue clementine development, or make Strawberry as feature complete as Clementine and go on from there.
- 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.
  
  That is interesting. Now I am going to have to run Wireshark and see if anything is going on with mine.
  
  Shame if so, it is the most feature rich music player.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Did Librewolf borrow the logo from Amarok?
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 :)
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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.
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 !!
Is this any good for library management and syncing to portable music players?
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social TELL ME OF THE LEGEND OF AMAROK!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I’m pretty excited to see this. Amarok was the first Linux music player I ever used, back when I maintained a carefully curated collection of low-bitrate MP3s.

Years later I’ve gotten into purchasing and ripping CDs to FLAC so I’m always loving to hear about new players.

If there’s eventually support for scrobbling to listenbrainz and a dynamic range meter plugin…it will be the only thing I’d ever need!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social hopefully someone will pick it up and package it for Debian again.
Who let the dogs out amiright

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