Bug 412708

Summary:	no more playback after several updates e.g. of phonon4qt5 4.10 on 25th Sept. 2019
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Phonon	Reporter:	Sönke Jensen <gisela_soenke_jensen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Harald Sitter <sitter>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	matej, myriam, rihokalbus, romain.perier
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.10.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Sönke Jensen 2019-10-07 18:02:12 UTC

SUMMARY
no more playback after several updates e.g. of phonon4qt5 4.10 on 25th Sept. 2019
All relevant backends installed: gstreamer and also vlc

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start Amarok
2. no Playback
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
No Playback

EXPECTED RESULT
Playback

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon 5.16
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.62.0
Qt Version: 5.13.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Amarok --debug: phonon backend plugin could not be loaded

Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2019-10-09 19:26:16 UTC

This is distribution related, as the Neon devs have probably removed Qt4. Redirecting to Phonon.

Comment 2 Sönke Jensen 2019-10-10 16:53:27 UTC

Dear Myriam,

does a realistic expected time scale exist for the portation of amarok 
to QT5?

Kindly and warm regards,
Sönke

Am 09.10.19 um 21:26 schrieb Myriam Schweingruber:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412708
>
> Myriam Schweingruber <myriam@kde.org> changed:
>
>             What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              Product|amarok                      |Phonon
>                   CC|                            |myriam@kde.org,
>                     |                            |romain.perier@gmail.com
>     Target Milestone|kf5                         |---
>             Assignee|amarok-bugs-dist@kde.org    |sitter@kde.org
>            Component|Playback                    |general
>              Version|2.9.0                       |4.10.0
>
> --- Comment #1 from Myriam Schweingruber <myriam@kde.org> ---
> This is distribution related, as the Neon devs have probably removed Qt4.
> Redirecting to Phonon.
>

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2019-10-13 19:15:27 UTC

(In reply to Sönke Jensen from comment #2)
> Dear Myriam,
> 
> does a realistic expected time scale exist for the portation of amarok 
> to QT5?
> 
> Kindly and warm regards,
> Sönke
> 
It is largely ported but for the Context View plasma widgets that need to be ported to QML. Since we don't currently have anyone who has time and, most of all, willingness to work on this, I can't tell how long it ill take. Understand me right: it's not difficult, but tiresome and tedious work, and we can't force people to work on it in their free time...

If you can live without the Context View, you can already use the Qt5 port, it is shipped by several rolling release distributions.

Comment 4 Sönke Jensen 2019-12-10 19:53:30 UTC

Dear Myriam,

I suggest you to read that article: 
"http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Clementine"

Kindly and very sad for Amarok,

Sönke Jensen

Am 13.10.19 um 21:15 schrieb Myriam Schweingruber:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412708
>
> --- Comment #3 from Myriam Schweingruber <myriam@kde.org> ---
> (In reply to Sönke Jensen from comment #2)
>> Dear Myriam,
>>
>> does a realistic expected time scale exist for the portation of amarok
>> to QT5?
>>
>> Kindly and warm regards,
>> Sönke
>>
> It is largely ported but for the Context View plasma widgets that need to be
> ported to QML. Since we don't currently have anyone who has time and, most of
> all, willingness to work on this, I can't tell how long it ill take. Understand
> me right: it's not difficult, but tiresome and tedious work, and we can't force
> people to work on it in their free time...
>
> If you can live without the Context View, you can already use the Qt5 port, it
> is shipped by several rolling release distributions.
>