More good news for Windows Amarok users-to-be

Friday, December 14. 2007

More good news for Windows Amarok users-to-be

As some of you have probably already heard, Trolltech have committed their phonon backends to KDE's svn repository. Details here.

What this means for Amarok is we now have a proper audio backend for Windows (and Mac OS too). A proper phonon backend was one of the key things that needed to happen before Amarok on Windows could really go ahead, and Trolltech have delivered ahead of expectations.

For those few brave souls who compile amarok on Windows themselves, unfortunately the code in svn isn't fully integrated with KDE yet. I have a patch awaiting approval from the phonon guys that makes it work with MSVC, but mingw will need a little more work. Unfortunately Amarok will be audio-less on Windows until that happens (as I've removed the temporary backend).

Update (15/12): Amarok now uses this backend and can now play both local files and streams under Windows.

Posted by Shane King in shakes at 02:27 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Amarok is the best music player I know and I would love to use it under windows too!!! I read since 2006 that this is possible, it even seems that some working versions exist, but I never found somewhere a download. When will it be available?

#1 Daniel Keller on 2007-12-16 14:29 (Reply)

There has never been an end user download because Amarok for windows was and is a work in progress. It would however be cool if there was some sort of alpha download available for adventurous people that don't feel like setting up a dev environment in windows just to give it a shot

#1.1 Simon Krämer on 2007-12-16 17:15 (Reply)

Seconded.

#1.1.1 Darkelve on 2007-12-17 11:30 (Reply)

Yup, great idea!

#1.1.2 Andrei on 2007-12-17 12:19 (Reply)

Currently unless you're writing code there's no point using Amarok in it's current state. Hence we don't feel that having to have a dev environment is a problem at the moment. We don't really want bug reports, since there's already more bugs we know about than we can fix in the short term.

Once it stabilises a bit and the features start to get closer to completion we'll be releasing alphas. There will be windows binaries at that point.

#1.1.3 shakes (Homepage) on 2007-12-17 12:50 (Reply)

I just want to drop a big thanks at the whole amarok team, in particular to the guys who are porting this great app to osx and windows

#2 stenosis on 2007-12-16 18:37 (Reply)

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