After wasting many, many hours of work trying every page available on Google for installing Amarok on OS X, I have come up with the ONLY working way to do it if you are not a programmer.
The wrong way:
- Select any of the pages currently online describing the technical details of how to get Amarok installed and running on OS X.
- Carefully follow the instructions given.
- When it doesn't work, email or post a reply to the authors and various email lists explaining the problem and asking for help.
- Wait 3.5 years for a reply or any useful advice at all.
The right way:
- Take your Macintosh and set it on its side (if it's a tower), on its front face (if it's an iMac) or close the lid if it's a laptop, so the maximum flat, level surface area is on top.
- Purchase a PC.
- Put your PC on top of your mac.
- Install Amarok on your PC.
Congratulations! You now have Amarok running on your Mac!
And yes, this is the ONLY way to get Amarok running "on" an OS X machine. I've tried all the other ways that people describe online, every one of them, and it was a colossal waste of time. Hopefully you found this page before you wasted your time, too. These people claim to have gotten it running but none of their instructions work. All Amarok does on OS X is crash when you open it.
Update: There are some developer preview binaries available for Amarok 2.0 which run on OS X at http://ranger.users.finkproject.org/kde/index.php/Home. It requires installing over 2 gigabytes of required files just to install a version of this "mp3 player". And it's an alpha version with one big hitch - it can't play mp3s! (If you have the 2GB free diskspace, try it! It's a hoot!) home