so... Amarok is not maintained anymore?

[Utsuho Reiuji]

This one catched me by surprise, so I emerge --sync'ed today and this was part of the output:

[ct85711]

From what I can tell, there isn't any official word on amarok at all, beyond they haven't bothered updating it much. If anything, I have been seeing, amarok is only being updated by a single person, and it is hardly finished/working. That dev, still amarok is still around but nothing beyond that. I saw a few articles on the web saying elisa (not in the official portage tree) is going to be a replacement for amarok. Even then, I am seeing that is strictly going for music play, not collection manager; and even that isn't fully working yet either.

[Gatsby]

[kitsunenokenja]

I was once a big fan of Amarok long ago, with Amarok 1.x. Then there was quite a backlash with the new wave of changes for the 2.x line, mainly the hard dependency on mysql. It was preposterous that a simple media player requires a full-blown database engine as a hard dependency! I quit using Amarok immediately as a result. Luckily, there is another project to continue the legacy of the style of Amarok 1: Clementine. This project is severely lagging behind the move from QT4 to QT5, but the latest dev branch should be QT5 based and it's a matter of time until it's ready for a proper release. If Amarok's days are numbered, you may want to try this player out as a replacement. I know the portage package mask message mentions this but at least, if you didn't know about it, you've got some history about its relationship to Amarok.
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[Utsuho Reiuji]

[lyallp]

For me, amarok is not broken, it does everything I want, and none of the proffered alternatives 'cut the mustard'.
I spent a couple of days working through alternatives before I re-installed amarok using the kde overlay.
I do find it annoying that things are removed simply because they are not maintained.
If I can still build and use it, why not leave it. Masked maybe, but not removed.
However, so long as it's still available in an overlay somewhere, I guess it's ok.
Efforts to keep gentoo portage tidy are appreciated.
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[Juippisi]

[Juippisi]

Good news everyone!

https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/888

So amarok is still being developed. This version is still based on Qt4 if I understood, but they promise the next one will work with Qt5. This makes me happy! Let's hope the port from Qt4 to Qt5 wont break it.

[Zucca]

I wonder if Clementine is still in development. I think it's pretty much like old Amarok (well it's a fork), but without kdelibs depency.
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[asturm]

[Juippisi]

Hey,

https://mgallienkde.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/0-1-release-of-elisa/

Here's something interesting. Really early release, but looks promising.

[asturm]

Sure, check it out. I don't think though that it is a viable alternative for most amarok users.

Meanwhile amarok sees active development again. But they need to port away from embedded mysql before we can add it back to tree.

[baaann]

There is also Babe Media Player

https://github.com/KDE/babe

https://milohr.github.io/BabeIt/

I have seen some positive reviews but not tried it myself as yet

[Yamakuzure]

I still use Amarok on Windows at work. There isn't any better Musik player for my needs. (Although I am too lazy to get MoodBar back working...)

If you don't mind overlays, you can add the "kde" overlay via layman and install media-sound/amarok-9999, which is KF5 based. I have to admit, though, that I did not test that one lately...
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[lyallp]

No idea if qt5 git Amarok is a good music player, it's not what I use it for, generally.
I tried lots of players, none have the podcast support I wanted.
Amarok used to.
QT5 git version is rather flakey at the moment, podcasts download one directory level too high after renaming the tmp file, and if you right click configure a podcast, it core dumps.
It does, however download the podcasts. I have raised these issues upstream.
Amarok 2 went through a similar rough period where things didn't go well. Lets hope the qt5 version shapes up
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[Juippisi]

First elisa, now THIS:
https://vvave.kde.org/beta.html

looks amazing.

[lyallp]

[asturm]

[Moderator note: this post was a response to a post that was later edited to be spam. That post was binned. This one was legitimate, so it stayed. -Hu]

[lyallp]

amarok-99999 from the kde overlay seems to work mostly, the only issue I have is you can't edit podcast entries, it core dumps.
I use an external mariadb to store my amarok data, makes backing up easier.
Over the time I looked for an amarok replacement, I deleted the amarok preference files but left the mariadb database alone.
As such, when I re-installed amarok, all legacy settings where gone and only the database remained.
Music plays, but the context pane is empty, no lyrics, etc. Don't care. Music plays, podcasts download, it works well enough for my purposes.
I found the volume control to not be particularly intuitive.
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[gentoo_rob]

the one I miss most in amarok-9999 for kde5 is the scripting feature. does that work for somebody?

[Fitzcarraldo]

[asturm]

Amarok was neither part of KDE3 nor KDE SC4 and no dependency forced them to do what they did...

[NichtDerHans]

Amarok returns with Plasma 6. https://amarok.kde.org/

https://github.com/gentoo/kde/blob/master/media-sound/amarok/amarok-9999.ebuild

[asturm]

This has nothing to do with Plasma 6, and as you can see is still Qt5 based.

[NichtDerHans]

You're right about that. The timing just fits together very well.