Amarok 2.x
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An audio player with many exciting features
Name | Amarok 2.x |
|---|---|
| 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.