The open-source music player Amarok has released version 3.3.2, bringing usability improvements and fixes to its interface and audio features. This update, part of the 3.3 “Far Above the Clouds” series, requires KDE Frameworks 6.5 and addresses several playback and playlist issues. It follows the major 3.3 update from July 2025, which shifted to modern Qt 6 and GStreamer backend.
Amarok 3.3.2, the second minor update to the 3.3 series, arrived on January 18, 2026, more than five months after version 3.3.1. Developed for the KDE Plasma desktop environment, this release enhances user interaction by displaying the “added to collection” timestamp in the track tag dialog when supported by the backend. In the collection browser, single clicks now open items in the playlist, while double clicks add them, streamlining navigation.
Under the hood, Amarok 3.3.2 mandates KDE Frameworks 6.5 as the minimum version for compiling from source. It resolves multiple bugs, including playback and update issues with the Magnatune collection, problems in the playlist layout editor UI, failures to save stream URLs in playlists, incorrect podcast sort orders for certain channels, and improper disabling of notifications when using system notifications. A key fix prevents the application from getting stuck in a loop during repeated mute state changes, improving stability.
This update builds on Amarok 3.3, released in July 2025 as the first version based on Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6, dropping support for the older Qt 5 and Frameworks 5. Notable 3.3 features include a revamped audio engine using GStreamer instead of Phonon for playback, an updated database with full UTF-8 support for emojis in podcast descriptions, and default pre-gain application when ReplayGain is active.
Users can download Amarok 3.3.2 as a source tarball for manual compilation or install it via distribution repositories or Flathub as a Flatpak application.
