Amarok 2: Cross platform

November 29, 2007 in tech by Seb

Development work on Amarok 2 has been gathering some momentum. It’s nice to see, but there is still so much work to do.

Cross platform support is also being improved drastically. Martin has done some work on OSX development, with Benjamin Reed doing lots of hard work on amarok builds (screenshot proof).

We even have an awesome open source windows developer, Shane King, who has been hard at work ensuring that Amarok will eventually run for those running Microsoft Windows. Looks like my wishes about finding an open source win dev actually came true. How wonderful and happy that makes me, perhaps the world is coming to it’s senses about software libre.

Amarok on Windows

For build instructions and a few larger screenshots on Windows builds, visit the Amarok wiki

6 Comments

  1. logixoul
    Posted November 29, 2007 at 11:03 pm | Permalink

    Cooool!

  2. martin
    Posted November 30, 2007 at 4:08 am | Permalink

    booh, windows, etc.
    Seriously, this shows the portability of KDE as a development framework, which is yet another one to add to my list of why use KDE for anything and everything.

  3. shiny
    Posted November 30, 2007 at 7:22 am | Permalink

    Bleh, it looks just the same as on Linux. Boooring… :D

  4. tom
    Posted November 30, 2007 at 7:29 am | Permalink

    I’m curious about database portability. What will the upgrade path look like? Can I take my Linux 1.4.x db to Windows?

  5. Seb
    Posted November 30, 2007 at 8:47 am | Permalink

    @tom:
    Sure, the DB will be the same across all platforms. However, we don’t know how easy it will be to port the 1.4 database to the new schema. Hopefully it will all go smoothly.

  6. tom
    Posted November 30, 2007 at 1:33 pm | Permalink

    Excellent, that would be great to have the db on an external hd full of music and use it at home and work (linux and windows). thanks