Amarok

There are many media players around these days, it's true. What's missing from most players is a user interface that doesn't get in the way of the user. How many buttons do you have to press for simply adding some new tracks to the playlist? Amarok tries to be a little different, providing a simple drag and drop interface that really makes playlist handling easy. Quick and simple drag and drop playlist creation Music library Cross platform: Support for Unix, MacOS X and Windows Plays all audio formats known to man Cover art download using Last.fm services Automatic play-statistics generation (iRate style) Full lyrics download Learn about your music with integrated Wikipedia Full Last.fm support gpodder.net support Configurable on screen display for track changes Podcast support iPod support, as well as other media players Powerful scripting interface Integration with Plasma and KDE Applications Integration with multiple web sources including Magnatune, Ampache, and others. The following list should give you an impression what's required but it might not be entirely up to date. You can always look at CMakeLists.txt to discover the most recent dependencies. MariaDB Embedded (libmariadbd). Building with external database support only (MySQL 5.0 or newer / MariaDB) is also possible, but requires the user to manually set up the external database. optional iPod album artwork support requires: libgpod built with GDKPixBuf support enabled GDKPixBuf 2.0 (or newer) itself Liblastfm 1.1.0 (or newer) (For scrobbling, internet radio, and artist info) originally a version with Qt6 support available at e.g. Transcoding requires (at runtime): FFmpeg 0.7.0 (or newer) - For all supported encoders to be available in Amarok, FFmpeg needs to support the following codecs: aac (introduced in 3.0, alac flac opus libmp3lame (NOT just "mp3") libvorbis (NOT just "vorbis") wmav2 Please note that if compiling from source you also need to install -dev/-devel versions of these packages, depending on your distribution. For answers to problems like "Amarok won't play any MP3s!" and "My MP3s skip and stutter!" please visit: