Amarok 2

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Provides a brief overview of the quintessential KDE music player.
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Amarok 1.4

Amarok is a music player and organizer for Linux with an intuitive Qt interface that integrates very well with KDE. For a similar GTK-based music organizer, you might try Exaile.

Amarok 2 has not yet and will not implement all features from Amarok 1.4[1], so if you are not satisfied with the new version and would rather have the old one back, refer to that article.

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Installation

The developers of Amarok currently recommend using phonon-xine over the more buggy GStreamer backend[2]:

# pacman -Sy amarok phonon-xine

Users of KDEmod will want the KDEmod Amarok build.

Customization

Integration with Gnome

See Uniform look for QT and GTK apps for visual integration of the main GUI.

Scripts and applets

New scripts and applets can be found either directly from within Amarok or at kde-apps.org.

SHOUTcast

For reasons which have not been adequately explained Amarok developers have removed the SHOUTcast Internet radio features from version 2.1.90 onwards. See the discussion page, the forum here and the thread starting here.

Amarok 1.4 and VLC continue to support the SHOUTcast Internet radio station index and streaming as before.

See also: How can I use Amarok to stream to my own radio station?, which recommends Internet DJ Console, available in the AUR (idjc).

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