Amarok 3.3 Released Using Qt 6, GStreamer Audio Engine

A new version of iconic Qt music player Amarok has been released, the first to be based on Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6. Amarok 3.3 (codenamed ‘Far Above the Clouds’, a reference a song by progressive rock musician Mike Oldfield) picks up a glut of improvement as a result of the toolkit bump, which its developers describe as a “decade-sized update of the technological foundations.” GStreamer is used for audio playback in Amarok 3.3 rather than Phonon, the KDE-developed multimedia API Amarok has used since the Amarok 2.0 release in 2008. Amarok’s devs say the switch ought to “provide a […]

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