Installation

To install amaroK, first follow these instructions:

• RestrictedFormats - adding support for MP3, DVD and other multimedia formats

• AddingRepositoriesHowto - enabling installation of the software for your computer, in the "universe" and "multiverse" repositories which is where amaroK is located

Some KDE/qt libraries will be installed as well since amaroK is a KDE application.

sudo apt-get install amarok amarok-engines

Customizing

If this is the first qt application you have used under gnome you probably noticed that large fonts and other various UI blemishes. Installing kcontrol (KDE control center) you will be able to customize the look and feel of KDE applications.

sudo apt-get install kcontrol

After that is installed launch kcontrol by going to: Application>Run Application...>kcontrol That will give you this and here is how I have my fonts configured.

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Feel free to change the look and feel as you like.

Sound

amaroK by default uses the aRts (KDE sound engine. Change the sound engine by going to Settings>Configure amaroK>Engine Change the engine to xine, gstreamer works also but as of now, xine is still superior.

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Feel free to experiment with gstreamer and xine.

Usage

amaroK provides a very useful and responsive music playback enviornment. Some of its features include:

• Audio Scrobbler integration
• On the fly lyrics
• Smart Playlist generation
• Mysql and SQLite database capability

• And many more, for more information goto [ http://amarok.kde.org amaroK's website ]

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