So, with my ongoing usage of the Ubuntu Hardy Heron os on my spare work laptop, I needed to get a good, flexible music player. After a little bit of searching, I came across the Amarok player.
This nice little KDE player has all the gizmos you could want, including a MySQL driven database of your music. Upon setting up the player, it takes all of your music, from a specified location, and reorganizes it Alphabetically by artist. From there, it also imports all of your cover art, as we all know your “collected” music does not always come with the art work.
Some of the other nice features are : MP3 device management, hookup with streams like last.fm , scripting (what open source system would be good without this), as well as the simplest cd burning I have ever seen.
One snag with the burning though is that the proper libs are not installed. HowToGeek has pretty good guide for this, but you can also use your Synaptic Package Manager to install these libs as well. The appropriate libs to grab are k3b, libk3b2, and the libk3b2-extracodecs. You can also install k3b-il8n for internationalized k3b.
All in all I recommend this player, but if I find something better, I will be sure and let you know.
Posted by Drwndx, filed under Geek |
Date: August 18, 2008, 8:22 am |