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Siberian Fox · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: Music player: Amarok

I was thinking of including Amarok in our distribution. I had posted this in the gnome section, but I wanted to go heavily into it here (this is also one of my favorite Linux programs). Amarok can manage Ipods, has Last.fm support, built in Wikipedia, lyrics, visuals, and a site similar to Itunes stores. It also supports radio, user mods, and streams. You can read up on it here. Let me know your thoughts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_(audio)

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SamFisher47 · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject:

It looks nice and support for iPods is a must! What we need is to find some skins that will blend with our theme, but otherwise, Amarok gets a +1 from me!
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Siberian Fox · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:29 pm Post subject:

it won't be hard. All the images come in their own folder, and are fully replaceable. I'm on Opensuse now, and they have added their logo to it, so it is rather easy.

SamFisher47 · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject:

Would you be able to edit the post to look like the post here for Transmission?

master_kernel · Moderator Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 66

Amarok is good for KDE, but what about Gnome? I know that Banshee and Rhythmbox are very user-friendly, not to mention the extensions that you can install for each.

Siberian Fox · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:08 am Post subject:

Amarok runs well on Gnome too.

Davmont · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

i used rhythmbox in gnome... and its really nice... now i cant live without amarok...

for kde i think amarok, but for gnome, maybe rhythmbox is better
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Siberian Fox · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject:

Lol, I know what you mean. It's sort of funny, people leave Windows because of security, customizing, etc, and I left entirely for Amarok Very Happy

. Anyways, I suppose Rythembox will be best for Gnome as default.

rustybronco · Newbie Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 3

Amarok is the best music player going imho, don't know if its because of ubuntu or not' but it defaults to sqlite and tells you that it is acceptable to leave it that way then searches for installed music libraries.
I think it should be a default install in kde and gnome

master_kernel · Moderator Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 66

Is Amarok fully compatible with Gnome? It seems more KDE-like.

Siberian Fox · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject:

It was designed for KDE, but it runs well on Gnome. I have never had it crash there.

yatt · Newbie Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

I fully support Amarok on KDE.

I would use Exaile on Gnome. It is quite similar to Amarok, but is GTK.

master_kernel · Moderator Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 66

Siberian Fox · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject:

Amarok's new version updated a lot of their mp3 players. Also, it wouldn't be default. It would be an officially supported add-on, instead of requiring you to install the RPM manually (or DEB).

crashdisk · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject:

Audacious is very nice too, you can use theme from winamp on it. I prefer it and i tried the other you speek about here.