Amarok

[hype3]

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Homepage

https://amarok.kde.org/

Maintainer

• [ ] Would you like to be the maintainer for this package?

Why should this be included in the repository?

Still one of the best music players for Linux.

Are we allowed to redistribute it?

GNU LGPLv2.1

What kind of user will use this package, and how many users do you think will use this package?

Everybody that used Amarok back in the days.

Link to source archive file

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/archive/v3.0.1/amarok-v3.0.1.tar.gz

[androidnisse]

Yes, now that it is maintained again I would love to see this.

[HarveyDevel]

We already have strawberry in the repo. Strawberry is a fork of Clementine which itself was a fork of Amarok.

Strawberry has seen lots of improvements over the years and has supported Qt6 since 2021~ (That is when I switched strawberry on Solus to Qt6 builds, it may have had support longer than that).

In contrast Amarok made its first new stable release since 2018 back in March finishing the port to Qt5. I do not see the value add of Amarok at this time.

[hype3]

Strawberry is a fork of Clementine that is a fork of Amarok 1.4 codebase. Amarok 2 and later is really different than the old Amarok 1.4. I don't want to use Amarok 1.4 (Clementine, Strawberry) I want to use Amarok 2 and later.

[malfisya]

This can go in. Feel free for anyone to package this and please also check if the Qt6 build is ready or not.

[androidnisse]

I will give it a go.

[androidnisse]

Got it to build but not start. So someone else feel free to try to tackle this