The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.

VERSION 3.0.0

FEATURES:

  • Added a visual hint that context view applets can be resized in edit mode.
  • Display missing metadata errors in Wikipedia applet UI.
  • Add a button to stop automatic Wikipedia page updating. (BR 485813)

CHANGES:

  • Replace defunct lyricwiki with lyrics.ovh as lyrics provider for now. (BR 455937)
  • Show only relevant items in wikipedia applet right click menu (BR 323941), use monobook skin for opened links and silently ignore non-wikipedia links.
  • Don’t show non-functional play mode controls in dynamic mode (BR 287055)

BUGFIXES:

  • Fix loading of some Flickr photos in the photos context view applet and show more relevant photos. (BR 317108)
  • Fix playlist inline play control slider knob & draw playlist delegate icons with higher DPI.
  • Fix searching for composer and album info for local files in Wikipedia applet.
  • Don’t remove wrong songs from collection when contents of a folder, whose name is a substring of another collection folder, are changed (BR 475528)
  • Prefer symbolic systray icon to fix colours in Plasma6 systray (BR 485748)