{"id":1008,"date":"2024-08-04T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T17:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/amarok-3-1-released-enhanced-last-fm-integration-qt-6-preparation-and-more-exciting-updates\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T06:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:12:48","slug":"amarok-3-1-released-enhanced-last-fm-integration-qt-6-preparation-and-more-exciting-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/amarok-3-1-released-enhanced-last-fm-integration-qt-6-preparation-and-more-exciting-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarok 3.1 Released: Enhanced Last.FM Integration, Qt 6 Preparation, and More Exciting Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>A new version of the Qt-based music player Amarok is available to download.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Amarok 3.1 arrives three months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2024\/04\/amarok-3-0-released\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amarok 3.0<\/a>, which was the first release in nearly 6 years and saw the developers complete their port to Qt 5 (which receives further polish here, in 3.1).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>With Qt 6 now out, work to port Amarok to Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 has been gaining momentum. Although that effort isn\u2019t complete here in Amarok 3.1, the team says it\u2019s \u201cnot that far away\u201d \u2013 which is great to hear.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Amarok 3.1 revamps its Last.fm integration plugin with more modern authentication and informs users of connection errors (for scrobble fans, there\u2019s nothing worse than losing a week\u2019s worth of playback stats unknowingly).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/amarok-3.1-1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><figcaption>Amarok 3.1.0 (image: Amarok)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><p>The \u201cSimilar Artists\u201d context applet also returns in this release, newly reworked for Amarok 3, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.kde.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=216528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">feature request first opened in 2009<\/a> (!) gets resolved in this update, namely: \u2018remember the previous destination provider when saving playlist\u2019. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Other changes include a bump to KDE Frameworks 5.89, code cleanups, Qt 6 prepping, and disabling gapless playback if ReplayGain is active <em>and<\/em> the next track is not from the same album (risking the changes that its audio levels may be different). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Bug fixes a plenty, including restoring playlist queue on quit\/restart, improving compatibility for exported playlists with other media software, threading-related crashes in the CoverManager \u2014 see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kde.org\/2024\/08\/02\/amarok-3.1-tricks-of-the-light-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official announcement<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2>Download Amarok 3.1.x<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/download.kde.org\/stable\/amarok\/3.1.0\/amarok-3.1.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">download Amarok 3.1.0 source code<\/a> from the KDE website and compile it by hand. Amarok is currently on <em>Flathub<\/em> or the <em>Snap Store<\/em> but a beta build is in testing for the former \u2013 so keep an eye out for word of that going stable.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If that sounds like effort, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or KDE neon users can choose to use an <em>unofficial<\/em> Amarok PPA maintained by a community member. <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~joe-yasi\/+archive\/ubuntu\/amarok-kde5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This PPA<\/a> only packages Amarok and Taglib for 22.04 \u2013 24.04 \u2013 no extra surprises, which is great to see:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:joe-yasi\/amarok-kde5<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p><pre>sudo apt install amarok<\/pre><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new version of the Qt-based music player Amarok is available to download. 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