The Amarok Handbook

The Amarok Handbook

Mike Diehl (madpenguin8 yahoo.com)

Developers: The Amarok Development Squad

Revision 2.1 (2006-02-20)

Copyright © 2005 The Amarok Development Squad

Copyright © 2006 The doKymotion Krew

Amarok is a media player for the K Desktop Environment.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Amarok Quick Start Guide

Building a collection
Making a playlist
Listening to streams
Playing an audio cd
Burning an audio cd

3. Configuring Amarok

General Options
Configure Appearance
Configure Playback
Configure On-Screen-Display
Configure Engine
Configure Collection
Configure Last.fm

4. Using Amarok

The Player Window

The Equalizer Window

The Playlist Window

The Sidebar Browsers

Context Browser
Collection Browser
Playlist Browser
Media Device Browser
File Browser

The Playlist

The Playlist Menubar

The Actions Menu
The Playlist Menu
The Tools Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu

The Playlist Toolbar

The Playlist Status Bar

The Right Mouse Button Menu

Album Cover Manager

The Queue Manager

Dynamic Playlists

What Are They?
Where Are They?
How Do I Use Them?

Configuring Dynamic Playlists

Changing the Behaviour of a Dynamic Playlist
Adding a Custom Dynamic Playlist

The Script Manager

The Visualizations

5. Advanced Amarok features

Keyboard Shortcuts

The DCOP Interface

dcop amarok collection
dcop amarok contextbrowser
dcop amarok player
dcop amarok playlist
dcop amarok playlistbrowser
dcop amarok script

Command-line Options

Script Writing

Bindings
Getting Started: The Templates
Controlling Amarok With DCOP
Notifications
Script Termination
Packaging
File permissions
Distributing

6. Questions and Answers

What is Amarok?
Installation
Troubleshooting
General Usage
Playback
Development
Tips and Tricks
General Questions
Konqueror Sidebar
Audioscrobbler
General Engine/Playback Questions
GStreamer engine
xine engine
aRts engine

7. Credits and License

8. Requirements

A. Installation

How to obtain Amarok

How to compile Amarok
Configure Options

Introduction