Amarok 3.3.2: Enhanced User Interface and Audio Backend

Amarok 3.3.2 has been released today as the second minor update to the latest Amarok 3.3 “Far Above the Clouds” series of this open-source music player application designed for the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Coming more than five months after Amarok 3.3.1, the Amarok 3.3.2 release introduces the ability to show the “added to collection” time in the tag dialog when available and adds support for opening items in the playlist with a single click and adding them to the playlist in the collection browser with a double click. Several bugs were fixed in this release, including issues with playback and updating of the Magnatune collection, some issues in the playlist layout editor UI, saving of stream URLs in the playlist, the sort order of podcasts for some channels, and disabling of notifications when using system notifications. Moreover, Amarok 3.3.2 fixes an issue where the application would get stuck in a loop if the mute state was altered repeatedly. Starting with this release, Amarok now requires the KDE Frameworks 6.5 open-source software suite as a minimum version when compiling it from sources. Check out the release announcement page for more details about the changes included in Amarok 3.3.2, which you can download from the same location as a source tarball if you fancy compiling software from sources. Otherwise, you can install Amarok from your distro’s repositories or from Flathub as a Flatpak app. Amarok 3.3 was released in July 2025 as the first version based on the latest Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 application frameworks to provide users with a more modern user interface. It is also the first release of Amarok to drop support for the older Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5 frameworks. Highlights include a revamped audio engine to use GStreamer for playback instead of Phonon, an updated database character set to allow full UTF-8 values for improved support for emojis used in podcast descriptions and other very exotic symbols, and support for applying default pre-gain when ReplayGain is active.