Last May, after about six years in dry dock, I arrive a new version of the wolf player. It was one of the best for listening to music on Linux, and many others are based on it, such as Clementine or Strawberry. In version 3.0 it was used to make improvements to adapt the software to Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6, but development continued in amarok 3.1 with not too striking changes. Still, they make it clear that the project will continue.
Amarok 3.1 has arrived about three months after the previous version, and introduces a new version of the applet of context from similar Last.fm artists, something necessary for it to work in the new 3.x series. Also for Last.fm, the plugin has been updated to now use a token-based method and notify users of session errors.
Other news of Amarok 3.1
- Amarok is now based on KDE Frameworks 5.89. The project continues working to make the player use Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6.
- Ability to remember the previous destination provider when saving a playlist
- Updated the About dialog.
- Added ability to sort playlist breadcrumb menu by localized names.
- Disabled gapless playback when ReplayGain is active and the next track is not from the same album to avoid volume spikes due to a delay in applying ReplayGain.
- Podcast provider actions now show for non-empty podcast categories.
- Other improvements and bug fixes.
- More information in release notes of this version.
Amarok 3.1 was announced this weekend, and its code can be downloaded from this link. There is also a version in the Flathub beta repository, for which you have all the important information in the related article that appears above these lines.