Amarok 2: Cross platform
November 29, 2007 – 10:37 pmDevelopment 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.
For build instructions and a few larger screenshots on Windows builds, visit the Amarok wiki
6 Responses to “Amarok 2: Cross platform”
Cooool!
By logixoul on Nov 29, 2007
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.
By martin on Nov 30, 2007
Bleh, it looks just the same as on Linux. Boooring…
By shiny on Nov 30, 2007
I’m curious about database portability. What will the upgrade path look like? Can I take my Linux 1.4.x db to Windows?
By tom on Nov 30, 2007
@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.
By Seb on Nov 30, 2007
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
By tom on Nov 30, 2007