Amarok 2.x
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An audio player with many exciting features
Name | Amarok 2.x |
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Overall rating | 2.0/5 1 rating |
Excerpt | An audio player with many exciting features |
Pros | |
Cons | |
Reviewed version | 2.5.0 (Ubuntu 12.04) |
Player | |
ReplayGain | Yes option: Album/Track |
Transitions | - Only on Stop |
Gapless | No |
Equalizer | Yes |
Navigator | |
Mode de navigation | TreeView (up to 3 levels among album, artist, genre, artistalbum, composer, label) |
File | Yes |
Cover Navigator | No but there is a cover manager that can replace, though not handy |
Local Library | |
Multiple folders | Yes |
Watch folders | Yes |
Statistics | playCounter, lastPlayed, firstPlayed, score (optional), rating (optional) |
Playlists | |
Playlists | Yes |
Smart | Yes |
Dynamic | Yes |
Queue | Yes |
Tags | |
Editor | Yes |
id3 version | ?? |
Auto tag tools | Yes MusicBrainz, Filename |
Scrobbler | |
Last.fm | Yes plugin |
Libre.fm | No maybe a plugin |
Informations | |
Lyrics | Yes |
Biography | Yes Wikipedia |
Photos | Yes |
Online sources | |
Radio | Yes |
Podcasts | Yes |
Jamendo | Yes |
Magnatune | Yes |
Last.fm | Yes |
Libre.fm | No |
Others | Librivox.org, Amazon |
Other features | |
Plugins | Yes |
Visualisations | No |
Karaoke | No |
Exclusive | |
Global shortcuts | "Win"+ shortcuts by default. Configurable. Did not manage to make multimedia keyboard to work. |
Ubuntu (gnome) integration | Yes OR Custom OSD |
Other systems | |
Windows | - with KDE for Windows (dev) |
macOS | - no official support |
Technical details | |
License | GNU GPL |
Programming language | C++ (Qt) |
Database | Sqlite (default) (~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db) or MySQL (on demand) |
Static Playlists | |
Dynamic Playlists | |
Smart Playlists | |
Audio Engine | gstreamer |
id3 library | ==> TBD !!! |
Distribution | |
Ubuntu software-center | Yes |
Ubuntu one-click install | apt://amarok |
External Information | |
Website | kde.org/en |
Wikipedia | wikipedia.org/... |
Ubuntu-fr | ubuntu-fr.org/... |
User reviews and comments
Simply too slow to be practical for me.