Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
Must be fun to be done porting it to qt5 and realize qt6 is now the default. :)
Oh man, it’s been a grip since I’ve heard Amarok mentioned. Very exciting.
What about Elisa? I was under the (potentially mistaken) assumption that Elisa was the successor of Amarok.
Elisa is just the latest (and most actively developed) addition to the long list of music players developed under the KDE umbrella.
I guess Strawberry or Clementine are the real successors.
Elisa wasn’t really meant to be an Amarok successor, it just kinda turned out that way because Elisa popped up around the time of the Plasma 5 release while Amarok never made the Qt5 transition. There were other reasons for Amarok’s death (before its recent revival), though Elisa could be considered a factor.
