Amarok - Howto Install

Rediscover music with amarok.

Amarok is a free music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive and skinnable interface. Amarok makes playing the music you love easier than ever before - and looks good doing it.

From wiki:
Amarok serves many functions rather than just playing music files. For example, Amarok can be used to organize a library of music into folders according to genre, artist, and album, can edit tags attached to most music formats, associate album art, attach lyrics, and automatically "score" music as you play it. Thus, the first run of Amarok can be daunting for some users. Users that find the interface difficult to navigate due to the many features may hide some features (such as by closing tabs) but may simply prefer a simpler audio player. The abundance of features has also attracted some criticism that Amarok is resource-intensive or "bloated."

Although a more technical list of features is listed below, here are the primary functions or uses for Amarok:

* Playing media files in various formats including but not limited to (depending on the setup) FLAC, Ogg, MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA, and Musepack. Note that Amarok will not play digital music files embedded with DRM.
* Tagging digital music files (currently Ogg, WMA, AAC, MP3, and RealMedia).
* Associating cover art with a particular album, and retrieving the cover art from Amazon.com
* Creating and editing playlists, including smart and dynamic playlists. The dynamic playlists can use such information as the "score" given to a song by an Amarok script, and the playcount which is stored with the song.
* Synchronizing, retrieving, playing, or uploading music to digital music players, such as iPods or Creative Zens.
* Displaying artist information from Wikipedia and retrieving song lyrics.
* Last.fm support, including submitting played tracks (including those played on some digital music players) to Last.fm, retrieving similar artists, and playing Last.fm streams.
* Podcast



Amarok can be installed both on GNOME and KDE, the X freedom.

Here's a quick jump on how to install Amarok on Fedora 8. Simply follow these simple procedures:

INSTALL HOWTO
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As root, simply issue
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# yum install amarok
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Due to legalities, non-free music formats are not supported by Fedora. However, you can install support for those non-free music format such as MP3 and AAC

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# yum install amarok-extras-nonfree
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The above requires an existing livna repo. Livna repo installation can be done by visiting this link and this link for later fedora version.


BINARY LAUNCH
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Alt + F2, amarok

SCREENSHOTS
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Amarok music player also supports various applications themes. You take a look several themes from the site.