| 1. | How do I use Amarok as an alarm clock? |
| Actually, thanks to the magic of DCOP you already can :) Simply set an alarm in your favorite calendar program and tell it to run the following command:
dcop amarok player play
This command will tell Amarok to start playing. Make sure that Amarok is running before you go to bed, and you should wake up to the merry tune of whatever you pressed stop on before going to bed. |
| 2. | How do I get what Amarok is playing right now, when I'm on another computer? |
| If you have a properly set up ssh environment, you can use that to get the information. The following command will return the Now Playing string.
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa yourip dcop --user yourusername amarok player nowPlaying
Make sure that you replace yourip with your IP and yourusername with your username. Also note that this expects your identification to be found in the ~/.ssh/id_rsa file. |
| 3. | What kind of tricks can the Player Window do? |
| The Amarok player analyzers can be detached from the Player Window. By pressing d on your keyboard the active analyzer will open in an independent, re-sizeable window. |
| 4. | What kind of tricks can the Playlist Window do? |
| Holding Control and clicking the right mouse button enqueues files in the order in which you clicked them.
Pressing Enter after making a playlist search will play the first search item and will clear the search. |
| 5. | I see the Player Window and Playlist Window have neat tricks, what about the tray icon? |
| Hovering your mouse on the icon will display a nice popup with current track information.
Clicking the middle mouse button on the icon play-pauses the current track.
Scrolling the mouse wheel changes volume.
Holding Shift while scrolling the mouse wheel seeks through the current track.
Holding Control while scrolling the mouse wheel will skip through tracks in the playlist.
Dragging and dropping items into the tray icon opens a pop up menu allowing you to choose from three options, Append to Playlist, Append and Play, and Queue after Current Track.
Tray icon is also a song position indicator. |
| 6. | Where do I find the settings for Amarok? |
| ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok
~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc |
| 7. | How do I disable a browser section in Amarok? |
| Clicking with the right mouse button on any browser title shows up a list of visible browsers. You can use this list to disable/re-enable any browsers available. |
