Amarok refuses input

[joneall]

If I click on Amarok buttons or playlist, nothing happens. Really, nothing. There is no animation of the button, no movement of the playlist, nothing.

Don't know if it matters, but Amarok phonon configuration setting for audio playback shows no device. But I can get it to say "Front right" and "Front left" to me.

At the same time, Clementine works fine, but I don't like its interface as well as Amaroks's.

[Snowhog]

Posting this here isn't appropriate. It should be in the Software support forum for the version of Kubuntu you are running, which is?? (I'll move this thread)

[claydoh]

Amarok is still available up to 18.10, though being a KDE4 program, bit rot has likely set in, and troubleshooting this may not be very simple. It is probably looking for nonexistent KDE4 configs and other bits that no longer exist.
You could run it from the command line, then click some buttons and see if there are any error messages, but being able to fix it , I dunno.

[joneall]

Thanks. I fankly didn't know where to put it.

[joneall]

Amarok is still available up to 18.10, though being a KDE4 program, bit rot has likely set in, and troubleshooting this may not be very simple. It is probably looking for nonexistent KDE4 configs and other bits that no longer exist.
You could run it from the command line, then click some buttons and see if there are any error messages, but being able to fix it , I dunno.

What? Is Amarok going away? That's terrible! What will replace it?

I did run it from the command line. Thanks for the suggestion. The result is

$ WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded 
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Permission denied
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/jon/music-mp3/lost+found

What is it doing with lost+found in my music-mp3 partitioin.

So I did

$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -i phonon
libphonon4:amd64                                install
libphonon4qt5-4:amd64                           install
libphonon4qt5-bin                               install
phonon:amd64                                    install
phonon-backend-gstreamer                        install
phonon-backend-vlc                              install
phonon4qt5:amd64                                deinstall
phonon4qt5-backend-vlc:amd64                    install

Is there something obviously missing in here?

[Don B. Cilly]

It may not be going away, but it's "being ported to KDE5" since March 2018. Not looking good.
Some discussion, including alternatives, can be found on Reddit. And elsewhere, obviously.

[claydoh]

Amarok development more or less stopped for whatever reason. There has been a very slow attempt at porting it to plasma 5.



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[kubicle]

I seem to recall qt4-phonon (or at least the qt4-backends) were removed in a recent upgrade (of course this depends on which version of kubuntu you are running), so this could explain why you get this error:

...phonon backend plugin could not be loaded

I think it's time to say goodbye to amarok, since the qt5 version doesn't seem to get released. I moved to strawberry music player (a still developed clementine fork, and qt5), since I purged qt4 from my machines a while back.
It's not available in the repos yet, but there is an appimage package available, and also a downloadable deb package available from the website, if you prefer debs like myself: ( https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ ).

I hope it'll make it to the repos eventually.

[Don B. Cilly]

Well, you can always get one of these. Apparently they have good sound systems

[jglen490]

Clementine still works, but is also apparently not long for this world. As kubicle mentioned Strawberry works just fine and is a worthy successor to Clementine. Clementine was forked from the (now very old ) version 1.4 of Amarok. That was the last Amarok that was worth a flip

It's always time to move on ...

[vinnywright]

I like QMplay2 .
dose audio video browses/searches/plays youtube and DL's youtube internet radio and is Qt5 .

you can pull the interface apart into separate widgets so have the player window on one screen and the other controls on a different one.

hears an old shot of it and the nvidia settings showing it using the GPU to do the decoding/playing of a youtube vid



and one with interface puled apart just showing the EQ , video , playlist and info , the rest is behind the task bar (lower left)



these shots are old ,,,,,,

VINNY

[vinnywright]

Clementine still works, but is also apparently not long for this world. As kubicle mentioned Strawberry works just fine and is a worthy successor to Clementine. Clementine was forked from the (now very old ) version 1.4 of Amarok. That was the last Amarok that was worth a flip

It's always time to move on ...

Well , so this Strawberry is pretty sweet , must be ripe

for a music collection player like Amarok was it's very nice feature full and light , I still like QMplay2 for a video radio music all in one player , but this is good (Strawberry)

I grabbed the appimage and let AppimageLauncher integrate it into the system (QMplay2 has an appimage now as well) and it's working well on 2 systems

in Neon testing ,,,,,,,



and Kubuntu-19.10 ,,,,,,,



nice

VINNY

[jglen490]

And for those who may appreciate Synaptic, Strawberry is also available there.

[joneall]

I downloaded QMPlay2 and gave it a try with AppImage. It might be nice, but I can't figure out how to use it. All the online doc I can find are either how to install it or examples of things you can look at with no explanation of how. Do you know of any real doc for it?

[jglen490]

While it seems to have the usual menus and options, it's a bit of an insult to consumers to not even make a simple user's guide available, or a decent Help section. I haven't used QMplay, but maybe it has a Help menu? With some clues? I don't know