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submitted 5 months ago by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

Amarok, KDE's legendary music player, is out with version 3.0.1.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/06/02/amarok-3.0.1-released/

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[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Man Amarok was amazing back in the day, but that was many days ago.

It still might be good, and kudos for the effort, but Clementine has already surpassed Amarok. It would be nice to the effort going to either Continue clementine development, or make Strawberry as feature complete as Clementine and go on from there.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I tried Clementine for a while, but I didn't like how careless the developers were with privacy and security. For example, quietly downloading and executing a Spotify blob (even when I don't use Spotify), and sending pings to a geolocation service without my permission.

[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

That is interesting. Now I am going to have to run Wireshark and see if anything is going on with mine.

Shame if so, it is the most feature rich music player.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You might also check to see if it has already downloaded any .so files. (These are executable code, like Windows DLLs.) I found one in $HOME/.config/Clementine/spotifyblob/ when I used it a few years ago, but recent versions may store them elsewhere or do it conditionally.

[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I looked and I do not see anything like that. Who packaged your version I wonder.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

The blob wasn't packaged with the application. Clementine downloaded the blob after installation. It's possible that it doesn't do this automatically any more, or does it under different conditions. I have no reason to investigate further, since I no longer use it.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I have the same home directory for 20+ years and have been running Clementine since it was released on Fedora. I have no blobs or .so files.

[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Cool. I guess I was wondering if the package maintainer had set a configuration to pull those in automatically, or if Clementine was designed to do that. But in any case, thanks for the reply.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I have no spotifyblob directory in my ~/.config/Clementine. Just Clementine.conf, clementine.db, jamendo.db and an albumcovers directory

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