The Much Favoured AMAROK Music Player Appears to be Back

[buster]

In VMWare, I installed Linux Q4OS for old times sake and selected the Trinity Desktop. And lo and behold, after the tiny install, there was a handy list of the most popular software to be added after the install, and near the top was Amarok!

I finally found the software needed to enable drag and drop from Win10 to Linux OS, moved across some albums, and played music. So the software is back in development and should show in many Linux varieties. Very comfortable to use.

The original install of Q4OS is pretty quick, but you do have to click some things. Solid and old fashioned. Using Trinity is easy to catch on to because the design is ancient. Comfortable and fast.

I will note that the first thing I did, as Fox does too, is added Synaptic.

Good so far.

[ssfc72]

Thanks for the info Buster.What was the software that you used to drag and drop between Win 10 and Q4OS?

[buster]

Bill asked, "What was the software that you used to drag and drop between Win 10 and Q4OS?"

I first installed Synaptic, and then searched for and installed

open-vm-tools

open-vm-tools-desktop

This works for most Linux distros, but I never got it to wok for xfce distros. You may have to reboot. I can't remember. I've used this software for ages.

Some people have complained about Wayland and drag/drop, but my weak memory suggests I managed with the newest Kubuntu, which has I think has Wayland as the default.

By the way, VMWare, if you can find the download, allows the full software free! And the two above pieces of software make life so much easier.

[buster]

Amarok is available in Q4OS Trinity, but not in the latest Kubuntu. It is also available apparently in Mint but Flatpack has to be downloaded as well to accommodate it. And it's a fair total size for a vm. So I'll use Clementine in my Mint vm.

[buster]

So way back we had Amarok. And then we had an offshoot of this called Clementine. And now we have an offshoot of this called Strawberry Music Player, which at the moment is playing some quiet, pleasant jazz Marilyn and I discovered at the Senator Hotel in Toronto, back when it was easy to visit Toronto. Or maybe we were just younger and that made it easy. The group had put out a tape or CD or something appropriate for the times.

Amarok -> Clementine -> Strawberry

Strawberry seems to be an organizer as well as a player. 

So in the world's political chaos, the makers of open software are still using their creativity daily. And I'm listening on a virtual Mint using VirtualBox.