Amarok 2 on Windows (will full codec support)

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Yesterday I stayed up until 4:30 AM while trying to fix Amarok to works on Windows and when I got it to build it was so late I was too tired to test it. So I fired it this morning and this is the result (click for larger images):

I have tested and it plays MP3, WMA, APE and whatever Magnatune streams on. Built with Visual C++ 2008.

Update Two more screenshots added and in case you were wondering, yes, Plasma works!

Posted in: C++, FLOSS, KDE, Software development, Unix/Linux, Windows

11 Thoughts on “Amarok 2 on Windows (will full codec support)”

  1. Danijel on Friday 18th July 2008 at 14:53:50 said:

    is it possible to download this version for windows?

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  2. Pau Garcia i Quiles on Friday 18th July 2008 at 14:57:13 said:

    @Danijel: if you mean downloading precompiled binaries using the KDE Windows installer, the answer is no. You can install Visual C++ and build it yourself using emerge, though.

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  3. numerodix on Friday 18th July 2008 at 18:22:39 said:

    Fonts look pretty lame on Windows. I realize this isn’t amarok specific, but do you happen to know if this is going to be improved?

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  4. Pau Garcia i Quiles on Friday 18th July 2008 at 18:41:06 said:

    It’s probably my system, I’m using the default fonts an Amarok probably wants some special font (i. e. Bitstream Vera, DjVu Libre, etc).

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  5. Paulo Luis F Casaretto on Wednesday 23rd July 2008 at 23:51:15 said:

    Hey there,

    i was wondering if you could maybe mail me a small guide on building amarok on windows, or at least point me in the right direction.

    Thanks in advance!

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  6. pgquiles on Thursday 24th July 2008 at 00:03:13 said:

    @Paulo
    It’s very easy, just download follow this guide ( http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge ) and do “emerge amarok”. Make sure you have installed the Platform SDK (only if using Visual C++ Express Edition) and the DirectX SDK.

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  7. Amey on Friday 22nd August 2008 at 17:59:37 said:

    I tried out the instructions given at Techbase, but everytime the compilation halts with some error. I tried googling for the error, but no help was forthcoming.
    do you know of any other way of compiling Amarok2 on Windows? Preferably with mingw…

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  8. Ishmael on Saturday 04th October 2008 at 20:28:04 said:

    Is it that hard to upload the installer/binary?
    This is Windows, not Gentoo, if it works in your system, it works in mine.
    Put it in rapidshare or something…. please?

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  9. Pau Garcia i Quiles on Saturday 04th October 2008 at 20:38:32 said:

    You no longer need to build Amarok yourself, just download and use the KDE on Windows installer from http://windows.kde.org

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  11. audio codecs download on Sunday 18th July 2010 at 16:45:58 said:

    You have no idea how much I’ve been looking forward to this release. Oh, god, ever since I’ve tried it on my linux test machine I’ve been yearning to have it full time on Windows.

    Does it ac3 support?

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