Six years since the last release formed music player release Amarok 3.0.0, which was very popular during the days of KDE 3 and KDE 4. The release is currently only available in source code. Amarok 3.0.0 was the first release ported to Qt5 and the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries. The project code is written in C++ and distributed by licensed under GPLv2.
Amarok provides a three-panel mode for displaying information (collection, current song and playlist), allows you to navigate through the music collection, tags and individual directories, supports dynamic playlists and quick creation of your own playlists, can automatically generate recommendations, statistics and ratings of popular songs, supports downloading lyrics, covers and information about compositions from various services, and makes it possible to automate actions through writing scripts.
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Among changes in the new version:
- The codebase has been migrated to use Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
- It is possible to rearrange elements with the mouse in the queue editor using drag&drop mode.
- Enabled support for drag&drop of tracks from contextual applets to the playlist.
- An item has been added to the menu for collapsing all expanded items in the collection.
- The On Screen Display (OSD) uses a higher DPI for images. Disabled broken OSD screen settings in Wayland based environments.
- The on-screen OSD indicator displays the progress of song playback.
- The scripting engine has been ported from QtScript to QJSEngine.
- Added the ability to copy track information by clicking on the context applet of the current track.
- Added support for FFmpeg 5.0 and TagLib 2.0.
- The upnpcollectionplugin plugin has been removed.
- In edit mode, a visual hint has been added to contextual applets to demonstrate the ability to resize.
- Added a button to stop automatic updating from Wikipedia data.
- To download song lyrics, the lyrics.ovh service is used instead of the discontinued lyricwiki.
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