After six months of development, KDE has published the release of a musical player amarok 3.3.0. Amarok was very popular during the time of KDE 3 and KDE 4. After the release of KDE 5, the project was abandoned, but it was revived this year and updated to QT5/QT6 and KDE Frameworks 5/6 libraries. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the license gplv2.
Amarok offers a three-panel mode of displaying information (collection, current composition, and playback list), allowing users to navigate their music collection, tags, and individual catalogs. It also supports dynamic playlists, quick creation of custom playlists, automated recommendations, statistics, and popular song ratings. The player can load song lyrics, covers, and other information from various services, as well as automate actions through scripting.
The new version of Amarok completes the porting to QT 6 and KDE Frameworks 6, with continued support for QT5. The database schema has been updated to address coding issues, and a sound backend based on GStreamer has been implemented to provide additional functionality not available in the PHONON-VLC base for QT6. The scanning code for music collection contents has also been improved.
