Tuesday, May 26. 2009Amarok on Windows: Get Your Nightly Builds Many users have been asking us lately for updated builds of Amarok 2.1 for Windows. Here's some good news for you folks! Thanks to our tireless KDE-Windows crew (Patrick Spendrin and others) you can now get nightly builds for Windows right here: http://mafia-server.net/amarok-nightly Apparently these builds are pretty solid. Quoting a user from our forum: "Wow the nightly build version is way different. After using it for some days I can say that it seems to be much more stable than 2.0.1. Good job." So, give it a try   Trackbacks
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This is a good news for sure (2.0.1 build, the lasted until now even crashed on startup because of LibriVox).
Unfortunately the new build didn't actually fix any of my "showstoppers" for day to day usage. Most annoying (probably due to Phonon, but the final result is the same): stop button isn't able to actually stop the song. bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176626 Cannot download covers: bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183178 Temporary UI freeze (this is something I can live with, but annoying anyway): bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183184 OSD configuration "steal" the mouse: bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183186 Also ogg seem to be a problem under Windows. Amarok isn't able to play them and sometimes even crashes. I'll report if I manage to get more information. However thanks to the amarok team for the great work! And thanks SaroEngels for the work on the Windows version! 
Yep, I'm aware of these bug reports, and I take them very seriously.
Unfortunately I'm personally missing the time to debug Amarok on Windows (I develop on Linux), but I would very much like to see these issues solved. So here's a call for help: Windows users with programming knowledge, please help us resolve these issues. If you happen to have any technical questions, don't hesitate to ask, we'll try to help as best as we can
I wanted to have a look at the src yesterday, but although i had already a qt development environment it seemed quite complicated to step into kde-on-windows devel. The techbase pages list a lot of possibilities. Do you have one for amarok specifically, so I could skip the unneeded parts?
As a starting point, I recommend reading the files in the HACKING/ directory in Amarok's source.
Also, we developers use IRC extensively and there are almost always some of us present in #amarok on irc.freenode.net. Last not least we have several mailing lists, e.g amarok@kde.org. If you have specific questions you could also ask there.
This is a great news. I would be really happy if we can get this through kde win installer. I already have KDE 4.2.3 on Windows. This makes the updates lot easier as installer works very well.
Using the mirror on existing KDE installation breaks pretty much everything :/. Will you be making this compatible in the future?
Anyway, thanks for this. I'll try installing it separately, hoping one KDE config for two installations will work.
A couple questions
1) I downloaded this file: http://mafia-server.net/amarok-nightly/unstable/2.0.1/win32/amarok-msvc-20090526-bin.tar.bz2 is this the one I want if I just want to try out Amarok in Windows? 2) I can unpack this, no problem. Why is it compressed twice. 3) The contents look promising, but simply clicking on amarok.exe does not work. It can't find the kdeui.dll, which is fair enough sincekdeui.dll is not in this at all so far as I can tell, so there must be more to the process than just getting a usable amarok binary. What do I need to do?
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No, you'll need additional libraries too. Ad 2) It's not compressed twice, tar just scales many files into one and bz2 compresses it. Ad 3) You may try adding qt, qtscriptgenerator, taglib and taglib-extras - maybe it'll be enough, but I wouldn't count on it.
...assuming you have KDE installed. If not, just read the README.
The README is here:
http://mafia-server.net/amarok-nightly/README
I'll check out the README file, but I expect no smooth sailing ( at least there is no mention of compiling everything myself, which is the norm for Linuxy projects ).
I tried the KDE for Windows installer a while back and that worked well. The next update, Amarok was broken. Last version I tried was 4.1.2 I believe, that does not work but errors out every time it starts. Versions after that don't seem to contain Amarok, like 4.2.3 that I looked at today, just lots of spelling and language packs. I know what it should look like and it worked fine for me the first time I tried it, so I don't see how anyone can blame be for the failure.
Good Job,
i linked your articel on www.kde4.de. I think many users should try it out, to have fun with Amarok and music
Hmm, maybe you can blame me, I fired up the kde windows installer and selected 4.2.1 because it shows amarok in the list of items to install. I'll see how Vista likes that, but I see I failed to add the link to the nightly build as suggested in the README file. Not like it's a big and complex list of instructions, I just skipped right over it.
Anyway, it sounds like having KDE for Windows installed is required to expect Amarok to run no matter where it comes from, so I will keep working at it.
I figured this is the kind of thing I could do before I go to bed? I have very little knowledge in this area and some help would be appreciated (: Durations and things would a great help.
It's probably not really version "2.0.1". The directory on the build server is just incorrectly named.
In reality it's probably "2.1-SVN", which is at this point basically 2.1. You can check this by opening the "About Amarok" dialog in the Help menu.
The numbers I gave were from the About Amarok dialog. The build date is listed as Jan 30, 2009, so I'm obviously not running what everyone else is running.
I'll have to have another look at the KDE for Windows installer options. I plugged in the URL for the nightly build and got an Amarok item listed that seemed correct. Hope I don't break anything trying to update the KDE build or Amarok build, this version is playing nicely.
Amarok-nightly stills requires some KDE 4.2.1 packages, while I already have 4.2.3 installed.
I don't want to downgrade (rather break) my whole Windows KDE for Amarok, although I would like to test.
@Mark:
You shouldn't forget Björn Schröder who maintains the builds (he is probably much more important than myself). @cyril & others: I am currently sitting on a Qt 4.5 based release for 4.2.4 which will solve the discrepancy between Amarok-nightlies and KDE again. |
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