]> The &amarok; Handbook Mike Diehl
madpenguin8@yahoo.com
The Amarok Development Squad Developers
2005 The Amarok Development Squad 2006 The doKymotion Krew &FDLNotice; 2006-02-20 2.1 &amarok; is a media player for the K Desktop Environment. KDE multimedia player audio ogg mp3 wav music sound script
Introduction Logo &amarok; is an audio player for &kde; that is extremely powerful, yet surprisingly simple to use. With &amarok; you can simply drag and drop music into the playlist instead of searching through endless menus. Just looking for that one song in a huge collection? &amarok;'s collection browser with its quick-search bar will help you find it in a matter of seconds. It may seem that &amarok; has the same old features found in the average audio player, but we did not stop there. One look at the context browser and you will see why &amarok; is one step ahead of the rest. The context browser shows all kinds of information related to your currently playing track - from the album cover, through to other music by the same artist, as well as related artists - an informative and fun way to learn about your collection! Do you already have many different playlists but can never decide on which one you want to use? Then the playlist browser is just for you. Never know what to listen to? Amarok's Dynamic Mode will choose your music for you, and Smart Playlists allow you to jump right in to specific parts of your collection. Amarok has outstanding support for Apple's iPod, iRiver's ifp and a multitude of generic USB devices. It also features many different audio backends allowing YOU to choose how you listen to your music. These and other features make it the most advanced audio player available. &amarok; is smart, sexy and clever. We hope that its use will truly allow you to "Rediscover your music!" &amarok-quick; &amarok-config; &amarok-using; &amarok-advanced; &amarok-faq; Credits and License Program copyright 2003-2005 Mark Kretschmann markey@web.de and The AmaroK Team. The AmaroK Team Christian babe-magnet Muehlhaeuser chris@chris.de Frederik ich bin kein Deustcher! Holljen fh@ez.no Mark it's good, but it's not irssi Kretschmann markey@web.de Max Turtle-Power Howell max.howell@methylblue.com Mike purple is not girly! Diehl madpenguin8@yahoo.com Pierpaolo Spaghetti Coder Di Panfilopippo_dp@libero.it Roman and God said, let there be Mac Becker roman@formmorf.de Seb Surfin' down under Ruiz me@sebruiz.net Stanislav did someone say DCOP? Karchebny Stanislav.Karchebny@kdemail.net Contributors: Adam Pigg (analyzers, patches) adam@piggz.fsnet.co.uk Adeodato Simo (patches) asp16@alu.ua.es Alexandre Oliveira (improvements, bugfixes) aleprj@gmail.com Andreas Mair (MySql Support) am_ml@linogate.com Andrew de Quincey (Postgresql support) adq_dvb@lidskialf.net Christie Harris (roKymoter) dangle.baby@gmail.com Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen (first run wizard) admin@removeleinir.dk Dan Meltzer (roKymoter) hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com Enrico Ros (analyzers, king of openGL) eros.kde@email.it Florian 'da-flow' Egerer (Amarok application icon 'Blue Wolf) flo_for_never@gmx.at Gérard Dürrmeyer (icons and image work) gerard@randomtree.com Greg Meyer (Fabulous help with our pre 1.2 bug-avalanche) greg@gkmweb.com Harald Sitter (roKymoter, translations, bug fixes, screenshots) harald.sitter@kdemail.net Ian Monroe (patches, Ruby script template (eean) )ian@monroe.nu Jarkko Lehti (tester) grue@iki.fi Jocke Andersson (roKymoter) ajocke@gmail.com Kenneth Wesley Wimer II (icons) kwwii@bootsplash.org Kenny Lemieux (Amarok webmaster) swaft@pwsp.net Melchior Franz (new FFT routine, bugfixes) mfranz@kde.org Michael Pyne (K3B export code) michael.pyne@kdemail.net Nenad Grujicic (splash screen for 1.1) mchitman@neobee.net Olivier Bédard (website hosting) paleo@pwsp.net Reigo Reinmets (Wikipedia support, patches) xatax@hot.ee Roland Gigler (MAS engine) michael.pyne@kdemail.net Sami Nieminen (Audioscrobbler support) sami.nieminen@iki.fi Scott Wheeler (TagLib) wheeler@kde.org Stefan Bogner (Loadsa stuff) bochi@online.ms Stefan Siegel (patches, bugfixes) kde@sdas.de Sven Krohlas (roKymoter) sven@asbest-online.de Whitehawk Stormchaser (tester, patches) zerokode@gmx.net Documentation copyright 2005 Mike Diehl madpenguin8@yahoo.com &underFDL; &underGPL; &amarok-req; Installation How to obtain &amarok; &amarok; can be downloaded from The &amarok; home page The latest development version can be obtained from &kde; SVN, module /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/. How to compile &amarok; In order to compile and install Amarok on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Amarok distribution: ./configure --prefix=`tde-config --prefix` make su -c "make install" The --enable-final configure flag is no longer supported. Since &amarok; uses autoconf and automake you should have no trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the &kde; mailing lists. Configure Options &amarok; is like most other apps in that it has several compile time options that can be enabled or disabled during configure. This is a list of the options that can be configured. Some compile time options require specific dependencies to be used. See the requirements section for more details. Option Default Description --enable-debug= no Enables debug symbols. Choose from yes, no, and full. Please use the full option if you intend to help with &amarok; development. --enable-mysql Disabled Enables MySql database support for &amarok; --disable-amazon Enabled Disables Amazon cover art downloading support in &amarok; --without-arts With Disables aRts support for &amarok; --without-gstreamer With Disables GStreamer support for &amarok; --with-helix With Enables Helix engine support for &amarok; --without-xine With Disables xine support for &amarok; --with-nmm Without Enables NMM support for &amarok; --with-mas Without Enables MAS support for &amarok; --without-opengl With Disables OpenGL (analyzer) support for &amarok; --without-included-sqlite With Do not use the included sqlite sources (requires sqlite to be installed) &documentation.index;