cantata VS macOS-Simple-KVM

Hi, I wanted to start using MPD but sadly I just saw that Cantata has stopped the development. Is there any valid alternative as a qt gui client? I see that most gui alternatives are gtk based and since I'm using KDE I'd prefer a qt one. Thank you.

pkgname=cantata version=2.5.0 revision=1 build_style=cmake hostmakedepends="pkg-config qt5-qmake qt5-host-tools qt5-tools" makedepends="qt5-devel qt5-tools-devel qt5-svg-devel qt5-xmlpatterns-devel qt5-plugin-mysql qt5-plugin-pgsql qt5-plugin-sqlite qt5-plugin-odbc qt5-plugin-tds vlc-devel zlib-devel ffmpeg-devel taglib-devel taglib-extras-devel libmtp-devel mpg123-devel libcdparanoia-devel libcddb-devel speex-devel eudev-libudev-devel udisks2-devel libmusicbrainz5-devel qt5-multimedia-devel libcdio-paranoia-devel" depends="media-player-info qt5-plugin-sqlite" short_desc="Qt client for the music player daemon (MPD)" maintainer="[REDACTED FOR PRIVACY]" license="GPL-3.0-or-later" homepage="https://github.com/cdrummond/cantata" distfiles="https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/releases/download/v${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2" checksum=eb7e00ab3f567afaa02ea2c86e2fe811a475afab93182b95922c6eb126821724

For now I stay with Cantata as it once was Kubuntu's default player: https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata (archived). Not in active development but still available in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS repos and therefore I assume also in Debian. Don't think however it has the modern looks you want.

Unfortunately though, the Cantata repository on GitHub has been archived: https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata

Cantata is a very good option in my opinion. And I learned recently about ymuse, which is another MPD client and could be interesting to check out. Just in case you'd like to migrate to a native alternative in the future.

I'm a 30 year linux veteran and windows free for over 22. I di d have a windows vm for some time because I have some music stuff that doesn't work with linux, like a nord keyboard and some guitar stuff.

But i burnt the vm with fire when I found https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

I've heard a lot of buzz for MacOS-Simple-KVM but I see there hasb't been an update in 3 years.

You could always get a regular PC laptop, install linux on it and run your macos/windows vms via https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM qemu kvm, supports full hardware acceleration and should be able to do nested vms just fine, i run a macos vm on my desktop for work and a hardware accelerated windows vm for gaming

Then, i came across this tool https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM. However, it seems like it's asking me to install a different package for QEMU. sudo apt-get install qemu-system qemu-utils python3 python3-pip. Thankfully, I was able to create a Mac VM with this tool.

His github project " https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM "

git clone https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM.git /home/Downloads

You can virtualize mac os, but I would call it easy

I did the Windows passthrough with some problems but I got it to work and then I attempted MacOS for fun and it went down hill from there. Following this guide https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM I installed it no problem without passthrough then realised my 3060ti wouldn't work so I installed an old RX580 laying around and decided to passthrough that, when I did it hung, tried blacklisting the AMD drivers on host, amongst other things and I couldn't get it to work. I then switched to this guide using clover https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM as I heard that might work and nope it hung again.