Back From the Dead: Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released
“Aamrok 3.0, ported to Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5, has been released,” writes Slashdot reader serafean. “With the heavy lifting being done, the Qt6/KF6 version is expected later in the year.” Originally developed for Linux as part of the KDE desktop environment, Amarok is a free, cross-platform music player that supports various audio formats and a user interface that can be tailored to individual preferences. These are the main features/changes, as highlighted in a KDE blog post: FEATURES:
– Added a visual hint that context view applets can be resized in edit mode.
– Display missing metadata errors in Wikipedia applet UI.
– Add a button to stop automatic Wikipedia page updating. (BR 485813)
CHANGES:
– Replace defunct lyricwiki with lyrics.ovh as lyrics provider for now. (BR 455937)
– Show only relevant items in wikipedia applet right click menu (BR 323941), use monobook skin for opened links and silently ignore non-wikipedia links.
– Don’t show non-functional play mode controls in dynamic mode (BR 287055) The changelog is available here. You can find the package on download.kde.org.
– Added a visual hint that context view applets can be resized in edit mode.
– Display missing metadata errors in Wikipedia applet UI.
– Add a button to stop automatic Wikipedia page updating. (BR 485813)
CHANGES:
– Replace defunct lyricwiki with lyrics.ovh as lyrics provider for now. (BR 455937)
– Show only relevant items in wikipedia applet right click menu (BR 323941), use monobook skin for opened links and silently ignore non-wikipedia links.
– Don’t show non-functional play mode controls in dynamic mode (BR 287055) The changelog is available here. You can find the package on download.kde.org.
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