On Sunday, 17 August 2025 01:58:13 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > 250804 Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > >> # Alexey Sokolov <[email protected]> (2025-08-03) > >> # Inactive upstream, stuck on Qt5. Suggested alternatives: > >> # media-sound/strawberry, media-sound/amarok. > >> # Removal on 2025-09-03. Bug #960012. > >> media-sound/clementine > > > > I was somewhat shocked by this announcement, which came out of the blue. > > I've been happily using Clementine with Qt 6 for a few months > > & haven't encountered any problems ; also Amarok is itself masked ; > > apparently, there are limitations to Strawberry. > > I looked up the bug & see that there are challenges for developers, > > but they don't seem to be insuperable to a user at least. > > I've waited a while for others to jump in, but no-one has commented. > > > > What do I have to do to go over to Strawberry ? > > -- do I simply unmerge the old one & emerge the new one ? > > Is that enough or do I have to do anything else to make it all work ? > > May want to give it a little time to see if someone picks it up and > maintains it. I've seen these announcements in the past on packages and > while the person who used to maintain it can't anymore, someone else > picks it up. > > In the meantime, if you want to try other replacement packages, that > might be a good idea too. Just in case no one picks it up. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Although there was a hiatus in the Clementine development since 2016, there were a couple of contributions in the last 7 and 4 months, with a new release 1.4.1_p28-r1 three weeks ago. This release is hard masked in portage, because it is still on the deprecated Qt5. Given Strawberry is a fork of Clementine, but with fewer functions/features and Clementine was inspired from Amarok, it may be worth trying out Amarok first, which uses Qt6 and is in constant development. https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/blob/master/README media-sound/deadbeef is another audio player with some plugins available to extend its functionality - I've read good comments about it, but have not used it. https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/ Besides basic functionality, they all play audio and can structure/manage playlists after all, it is of course a matter of personal taste and matching your personal use pattern. Trying more than one application could help you discover a better audio player than Clementine.
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