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AMAROK(1) The audio player for KDE AMAROK(1)

NAME

amarok - The audio player for KDE

SYNOPSIS

amarok [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [URL(s)]

DESCRIPTION

Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before and it looks good doing it! Amarok is based on the powerful Qt 4 / KDE 4 technology platform and nicely integrates with KDE desktop.

Much work has been invested into integrating Amarok 2 with various Web services:

  • Ampache
  • Jamendo Service
  • Last.fm
  • Librivox
  • MP3tunes
  • Magnatune
  • OPML Podcast Directory

Amarok comes with a lot of features including but not limited to:

  • Scripts - enhance your Amarok experience with community developed scripts.
  • Dynamic Playlists - create playlists that automatically update.
  • Context View - customize interface with the Plasma powered Context View.
  • PopUp Dropper - simplify drag&drop actions with revolutionary menu system.
  • Multiple Language Translations
  • Collection Management - organizing your music collection has never been easier with Amarok's powerful tagging, renaming, and sorting abilities.
  • Database Importing - import collections from Amarok 1.4 or iTunes.
  • Scriptable Services - integrate other web services into Amarok.

OPTIONS

Arguments:

URL(s) Files/URLs to open

Options:

Skip backwards in playlist
Start playing current playlist
Play if stopped, pause if playing
Pause playback
Stop playback
Skip forwards in playlist

Generic options:

Show help about options
--help-qt
Show Qt specific options
--help-kde
Show KDE specific options
--help-all
Show all options
Show author information
Show version information
Show license information
--
End of options

KDE options:

Use 'caption' as name in the titlebar
Use 'icon' as the application icon
Use alternative configuration file
Disable crash handler, to get core dumps
Waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager
sets the application GUI style
sets the client geometry of the main widget - see man X for the argument format
Do not run in the background.

Qt options:

Use the X-server display 'displayname'
Restore the application for the given 'sessionId'
Causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display
Limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification
tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard
running under a debugger can cause an implicit -nograb, use -dograb to override
switches to synchronous mode for debugging
defines the application font
sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated)
sets the default foreground color
sets the default button color
sets the application name
sets the application title (caption)
forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display
sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot and root
set XIM server
disable XIM
mirrors the whole layout of widgets
<file.qss> applies the Qt stylesheet to the application widgets

AUTHORS

Alexandre 'Ain't afraid of no bugs' Oliveira <aleprj@gmail.com>

Bart 'Where are my toothpicks' Cerneels <bart.cerneels@kde.org>
Dan 'Hey, it compiled...' Meltzer <hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com>
Ian 'The Beard' Monroe <ian@monroe.nu>
Jeff 'IROCKSOHARD' Mitchell <kde-dev@emailgoeshere.com>
Leo Franchi <lfranchi@kde.org>
Mark 'It's good, but it's not irssi' Kretschmann <kretschmann@kde.org>
Maximilian Kossick <maximilian.kossick@gmail.com>
Nikolaj Hald 'Also very hot' Nielsen <nhnfreespirit@gmail.com>
Seb 'Surfin' down under' Ruiz <ruiz@kde.org>
Nov 2009 K Desktop Environment