Amarok – powerful music player
Amarok is not just a music player! You can use it to manage and organize the collections of large amounts of music, to burn it to discs, or to edit tags. An important advantage of Amarok is user-friendly graphical interface and high quality of audio playback. This program uses two most popular media frameworks – GStreamer and Xine, so that it can provide support for almost all audio file formats you can imagine. Like most competitive players Amarok allows you to play Internet radio - including automatic download of album covers and text of the songs as well as information about the artist. All pieces of information are displayed in translucent OSD. Also Amarok has an additional interesting feature: it automatically generates playlists with specified music type or according to user criteria. Moreover, it supports most portable media players. Functionality can be extended by a huge amount of scripts available on the internet. The latest version has improved user interface, dynamic playlists generation, and the new options of choosing tracks. Also, there new functionalities as: new example playlists, a Quiz-play option that will pick a song that starts with the same character the last one ended with. And the last thing: this program supports ‘drag and drop’ method which expands its possibilities.
