{"id":678,"date":"2024-04-30T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T01:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/the-release-of-amarok-3-0-now-ported-to-qt5-kde-frameworks-5\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T06:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:03:11","slug":"the-release-of-amarok-3-0-now-ported-to-qt5-kde-frameworks-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/the-release-of-amarok-3-0-now-ported-to-qt5-kde-frameworks-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Release of Amarok 3.0: Now Ported to Qt5\/KDE Frameworks 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new version of the open-source music player Amarok<\/a> has been released, the first major update to the Qt-based media app since 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Amarok 3.0 is the first stable release to use Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5, and work to port the music player to the newest Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 is, its devs say, soon to get underway. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cCommon usecases should work quite well, and in addition to fixing KF5 port related regressions reported in pre-releases, 3.0 features many bugfixes and implemented features for longstanding issues, the oldest such documented being from 2009,\u201d<\/em> devs say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, with more than 20 years of development history, it is likely that not every feature Amarok has been tested thoroughly in the new release, and specifically some Internet services that have changed their API in recent years are not available, at least for now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Amarok 3.0 operates efficiently on KDE Plasma 6.0, making it an excellent choice for Kubuntu 24.04 LTS users, as it still uses the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS series. Similar to Amarok 3.0, the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS series is based on Qt 5 and KDE 5 Frameworks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

There are several new additions, corrections, and noteworthy adjustments:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n