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Amarok 3.3.3 released!

Amarok is a music player that is free and open-source, and it’s available on Windows, macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. It’s one of the oldest Linux music players that started its development in 2003 and is still under active development.

A new version of Amarok in the v3.3 version series was released, and it’s a rather minor version that focuses on fixing bugs that have been reported since the last release, which was v3.3.2. This new version is under v3.3.3, and it fixes an important bug that restores functionality for inhibiting system suspend while the music is playing.

The above bug fix is important, as this means that you’ll now be able to play music without worrying about your system going to the suspended state, just like before. This change is essential as it improves your music listening experience.

Alongside that, the Wikipedia applet has been updated to adapt to some page syntax changes that were made server-side. This ensures that the Wikipedia applet works properly in this version of Amarok, and that you’ll be able to see a Wikipedia article of the artist of the current track.

To learn more about the changes made to Amarok v3.3.3, check out this article.

Amarok 3.3.3 released!

Amarok is a music player that is free and open-source, and it’s available on Windows, macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. It’s one of the oldest Linux music players that started its development in 2003 and is still under active development.

A new version of Amarok in the v3.3 version series was released, and it’s a rather minor version that focuses on fixing bugs that have been reported since the last release, which was v3.3.2. This new version is under v3.3.3, and it fixes an important bug that restores functionality for inhibiting system suspend while the music is playing.

The above bug fix is important, as this means that you’ll now be able to play music without worrying about your system going to the suspended state, just like before. This change is essential as it improves your music listening experience.

Alongside that, the Wikipedia applet has been updated to adapt to some page syntax changes that were made server-side. This ensures that the Wikipedia applet works properly in this version of Amarok, and that you’ll be able to see a Wikipedia article of the artist of the current track.

To learn more about the changes made to Amarok v3.3.3, check out this article.

Amarok 3.3.1 released!

After the Amarok 3.3.0 music player was released, the Amarok development squad have released the first bugfix release, versioned as 3.3.1. This incorporated many bug fixes and general improvements, including the build system improvements and the Amarok 3.3 scripting system enhancements.

In addition to that, some of the remaining UI tool buttons that are not themable now respect the system theme that you’ve configured, to make the UI look more uniform to the rest of the system. FFmpeg is now required to build Amarok, which means that in order to be able to build the music player successfully, you are required to install the former library.

Here is the full set of changelogs:

• Features
  • Enable saving and loading script console items, autocompletion in script console, and re-enable some more scripting functionality
• Changes
  • Convert the remaining main UI toolbuttons to use icons from theme
  • Clear out remnants of the now-discontinued MusicDNS service
• Bugfixes
  • Fix example permission grant command in database settings (BR 386004)
  • Fix equalizer gains not updating when selecting some presets (BR 463908)
  • Fix continuing playback after timecoded tracks (cue files etc, (BR 270003)
  • Fix MusicBrainz search
  • Properly start CD playback if Amarok is not already running (BR 503310)
  • Also transmit embedded cover art through MPRIS (BR 357620)
  • Don’t show transcoding dialog after canceling download (BR 275840)
  • Load network information earlier to avoid crashes on startup (BR 507497)
  • Try to export as-compatible-as-possible playlist files (BR 507329)
  • Fix some random crashes during playback

For those who are using MusicBrainz, you can now use the search function to find songs in that service without any errors, hopefully.

In order to install Amarok 3.3.1, you’ll have to either build from source, or use your distro’s package manager. In addition to that, you can also use the Flatpak version, which guarantees that you’re using the latest version.

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