Amarok
 Amarok is an
audio
player for KDE
offering a wealth of
features,
yet being intuitive to use. It has an attractive interface
where
music can be drag and dropped into the playlist.
Amarok does not support any media types directly, but instead
uses a backend independent approach.
There are plugins available for the iRiver media devices,
Apple iPod, Creative Nomad and Zen.
Amarok 1.4.9.1
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Price
Free to download
Size
12.1MB
License
GNU General Public License
Developer
Amarok team includes Christian Muehlaeuser, Frederik
Hollen, Mark Kretschmann, and Max Howell.
Website
amarok.kde.org
System Requirements
KDElibs 3.3
Ruby 1.8
TagLib 1.4
Qt-x11 3.3.8
xine-lib 1.1.2
Helix
SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL
GStreater
0.8.6 and Gst-Plugins 0.8.6
(recommended)
Support
Sites:
blogspot.com,
Amarok Forum,
Amarok
Wiki, Amarok
with MTP Device
Selected
Reviews:
Raiden's Realm,
Linux
Gazette,
blogspot.com,
LWN.net,
NewsForge,
Novell
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Features include:
- Support for multiple backends (xine,
Helix, Gstreamer,
aRts, and NMM), so that Amarok can play lots of different music formats.
- Internet functionality: Streaming including Radio Streams,
and
Podcasts, full support for last.fm, automatic downloading of cover art
using Amazon
servces, lyrics downloads.
- Support for iPod®, iRiver® and generic UMS
mp3 players with the all new media-browser.
- Album Cover Manager for managing your album covers.
- Queue Manager allowing complete control over playlists.
- Crossfading.
- 10 band equalizer.
- Visualizations from libvisual and XMMS.
- KDE
integration.
- Automatic completion of ID3 tags.
- Translated into more than 35 languages
More Advanced features:
- K3B
(CD/DVD burning) integration.
- Dynamic Playlists; self-generating playlists, created
accordingly to defined rules.
- DCOP interface providing an easy way to control Amarok with
custom scripts which can be written in many different languages
including Python and PHP.
- Support for sqlite, MySQL and PostgreSQL
databases ensuring fast collection access.
- Shortcuts enabling the software to function whilst
minimised to the system tray.
If you prefer GNOME
applications, you might want to check out Banshee
instead.
Last Updated Sunday, April 20 2008 @ 06:55 AM EDT
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