I've just updated to Amarok 2.9.0.r362.f0d3e6f069-1 via the Arch Linux AUR.

1) Is there a way to change the date format? Currently the "Last played" information is showing the cryptic "04 2014". Is there a way to make it, e.g. dd/mm/yy? I have Australia set in the System Settings > Formats > Region.

2) Is there a "proper" way to set a global Play/Pause shortcut? In Amarok's shortcut dialog, Play/Pause has no option to set a global shortcut.



FWIW KDE's system settings > Shortcuts > Global Shortcuts have a global option for Amarok Play/Pause, but this doesn't seem to do anything. In the meantime, I've bound a key to

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qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.PlayPause


which works well. For the record, the following also works:

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qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player org.kde.amarok.Mpris1Extensions.Player.PlayPause


EDIT
I also seem to recall the lyrics pane working better in past versions of Amarok. The pane doesn't seem to know as many songs as previous versions. I can't seem to find a way to change its settings, e.g. the lyric source. In addition, installing new scripts doesn't seem to work.

EDIT2
Dynamic playlists don't seem to remove old songs any more. I have "previous" tracks set to 5.

sparhawk wrote:I've just updated to Amarok 2.9.0.r362.f0d3e6f069-1 via the Arch Linux AUR.

Just to be clear: this is not a released version, it is a development snapshot of the WIP Qt5 port, and nowhere close to a release yet as it looks...

The last stable release is 2.9.0 (not .r362.something), but that is still Qt4/KDE4 based and therefore some distributions dropped it meanwhile.

1) Is there a way to change the date format? Currently the "Last played" information is showing the cryptic "04 2014". Is there a way to make it, e.g. dd/mm/yy? I have Australia set in the System Settings > Formats > Region.

No, this is hardcoded at the moment.

2) Is there a "proper" way to set a global Play/Pause shortcut? In Amarok's shortcut dialog, Play/Pause has no option to set a global shortcut.

The Play/Pause global shortcut was removed by mistake, this has been fixed recently:
https://cgit.kde.org/amarok.git/commit/ ... 0866be3ed5

By default, Play/Pause is actually bound to the "Media Control" component since Plasma 5.3 though, i.e. the MediaPlayer Plasma applet that can control Amarok and other players via MPRIS.

I also seem to recall the lyrics pane working better in past versions of Amarok. The pane doesn't seem to know as many songs as previous versions. I can't seem to find a way to change its settings, e.g. the lyric source. In addition, installing new scripts doesn't seem to work.

Yes, these are unfinished features in the Qt5 port.
The lyrics applet doesn't support fetching lyrics yet, it can only display lyrics that are already in the database (or stored in the files, I suppose).

Scripting doesn't work at all yet, there's currently a patch in review to restore the necessary (and missing) Qt5 bindings.
https://phabricator.kde.org/D24817

Dynamic playlists don't seem to remove old songs any more. I have "previous" tracks set to 5.

Not sure if it's the same problem, but I noticed here that no new tracks are added either, playback just stops when all tracks have been played.

Thank you for the reply, wolfi.

wolfi323 wrote:Just to be clear: this is not a released version, it is a development snapshot of the WIP Qt5 port, and nowhere close to a release yet as it looks...

The last stable release is 2.9.0 (not .r362.something), but that is still Qt4/KDE4 based and therefore some distributions dropped it meanwhile.

Yes, unfortunately KDE has dropped Amarok from the official repos. You can still install Amarok from the AUR, but I think some of the dependencies for the old, stable Amarok are no longer available.

Thank you for all that other information. TBH I've been tempted to switch to another music player, but I'll stick in there for a while longer. Thanks for the update!