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A couple of questions about Cantata (self.linux)

submitted 4 months ago by CtrlAltOoops to c/[email protected]

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Hello all,

A couple of questions about Cantata.

It hasn't been developed for a while now. Will it eventually just stop working or there's any way to at least port it to qt6, without new features, just keeping the basic functionality?

I have the habit of star most of the songs I listen to, so that it's become easier to, for example, create smart playlists. In the case I can use Cantata no more is it possible to export somehow this data? Let's say that it stops working and I switch to something else (say, Navidrome or some equivalent). Will I be able to export my preferences, stars, playlists, favorites, etc?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Big fan of Cantata here :)

It was forked this year and the new developer kept using the original name.

[–] CtrlAltOoops 2 points 4 months ago

Hey, that's great news!

And to think I've been searching so much about Cantata these last few days and didn't find this github project... although it seems to be the fork of a fork, isn't it?

I do appreciate your input.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Afaik the Flatpak uses EOL dependencies

[–] just_another_person 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of it, but it will stop working eventually not because of QT, but due to updated distros replacing aging or insecure libraries or compilation tools that will be incompatible with this software. You would have the option of keeping it running on an older LTS release of something, but eventually that will also run out. Best to just find an alternative that is actively developed at some point.

[–] CtrlAltOoops 5 points 4 months ago

Cantata is an excellent graphical frontend to mpd.

And another Cantata fellow fan posted a fork of the the original project that apparently has been maintained.