Until the recent upgrade to 40 I found this operating system the best due to keeping Amarok available as a multiplayer, most other distros have discontinued this application. Like the interface and way the data base system works for sorting and presenting your library of music on Amarok and the way Wikipedia presented information to you on the interface of Amarok when playing a recording of that artist. Amarok is still available at the software repository or through dnf yet the latest version seems deprecated with a lot of the functionality that up to Fedora 39 worked flawlessly.
You can’t judge a linux distro by whether they provide a native package for a particular application.
All distributions are encountering difficulties just keeping up with “core” elements that make linux useful on the full range of computers from single board systems to massive
data centres. We have discovered that many widely used open-source tools are not
being maintained as original creators retire. Applications not used by a significant
majority of users are being dropped by distros, but are often available in a cross-distro
form such as flatpaks: https://www.lorenzobettini.it/2024/04/installing-amarok-in-fedora-linux/.
Some very useful applications with a long track record are being abandoned because
only the original developer understands the code, or because there are inherently
insecure aspects to the design that can’t be tolerated in the current environment.
I also not agree, to judge Fedora because of a single application not working anymore on F40.
That is why I made you a own topic to discuss your Issue here. Please complete the information and describe your problem a bit better.
Added kde, package-maintainers
Amarok is a legacy application that was abandoned by the KDE devs. Fedora people just package whats available.
There is currently a modernization ongoing, first porting Amarok to Qt5 and then to Qt6.
No idea in what state the player is in currently. But you can for sure ask the dev (Thomas Nurmi) that stepped up to modernize it, if they accept donations.
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Oh, so the latest version is available also as a package, not only flatpak. Great! 
Did a recent 40 update and now Amarok seems to work fine yet with a slightly different interface for the program and a very different interface for the Wikipedia. I have no complaints about the change in this interface, works good. There is a possibility that I did not notice this small icon, double cross bars with small black balls centered, that seemed to open the Wikipedia link. In previous versions of Fedora this simply opened up by default when opening the program. Again the library retrieval and display seem to be working fine again, the merged view option is working again. Thanks to all for time and consideration.