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a powerful music player for Linux and Unix, macOS and Windows.

Amarok home page: http://amarok.kde.org/

Amarok wiki main page: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Main_Page

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How to bind play/pause key to Amarok?

I have some play/pause, stop, next etc. keys on my Dell Vostro 1510. These interact with Banshee but don't with Amarok. How can I bind the latter to those keys?
neydroydrec
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How can I change the appearance of KDE applications?

I use Gnome. I want to change the appearance of KDE applications such as Amarok. The colors in Amarok don't match the rest of my applications. How can I customize them?
ændrük
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Can I connect to iTunes music shares using Amarok?

The Amarok manual claims: Amarok automatically shows the tracks from the server in the Media Sources -> Local Music pane and no further configuration is required. But Amarok did not automatically work with no configuration: What am I doing…
ændrük
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Amarok in kubuntu 19.04

I just have upgraded from kubuntu 18.10 to 19.04 and I found Amarok player has disappeared! How could I install it again? Thanks!
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Amarok 2.8 High Memory Usage in Kubuntu 16.04?

On a brand new install of Kubuntu 16.04 I have noticed that Amarok is the biggest memory hog right from the start with 450Mb. The same Amarok version on Kubuntu 14.04 uses only 75Mb. Any hints or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Edit 1: I looked…
Conf Comp User
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Way to play only songs that were last played before a certain date in amarok

I want to make a dynamic playlist in amarok (version 2.8.0-0ubuntu3) which plays songs that I haven't heard in a while, for example should it contain only songs that were last played in 2013 or earlier. This being a fairly straightforward condition…
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Amarok tool tips are just black boxes, Is it possible to fix it?

I use GNOME. I want to use Amarok, but tool tips are just black boxes in Maverick. Here's what it looks like: Is it possible to correct this by changing some settings or it is a bug? I saw this - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10186430 -…
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Amarok doesn't play any songs

I've recently installed Kubuntu 15.10. After adding my local library to amarok, it doesn't play anything. Double click on a song does nothing. No errors etc. Playing songs/video in VLC is working just fine. Amarok Diagnostics: General…
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Write tags from collection to files in amarok

Sorry if that question is a bit peculiar but is there a way in amarok to have it write back the tags from its database to the files composing its collection? I ask because on my dual-boot machine windows media player botched the tags of half my…
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Amarok and MusicBrainz Audio Fingerprinting

Amarok 2.8 supports searching MusicBrainz by an audio-fingerprint. However this feature doesn't seem to work for me -- for example if I remove the ID3 tags from a known song and click on "Get Tags from MusicBrainz" I get no results. From the Amarok…
Guy
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What music player works with ipod nano 7th generation?

Does anyone know of a music player that supports the ipod nano 7g? I know amarok doesn't, and I haven't had any success playing around with rhythm box or banshee. Any suggestions for how to get these or other players to work would be wonderful!
gabrielle
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Music player that supports multiple genres

Is there a music player for Ubuntu that either supports multiple genres or has a plug-in to support them? Say I have a song with the genre "Metal/Instrumental" (the separator isn't really important). I would like it to show up in both the "Metal"…
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Why was Amarok removed from 19.04 repositories?

Is there an official explanation somewhere? I understand that it's maybe not maintained enough but what is the exact reason? Did something stop working? What are the parameters by which a project is deemed not maintained? easystroke for example is…
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Ipod scrobbling to last.fm?

The Amarok 1.4 series scrobbled the songs I played via ipod (and also had great ipod song transfer functionality). I've not been able to scrobble songs played via my ipod then synced to a media player since my upgrade to 11.10 (and the subsequent…
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Transfer music to ipod

I've been trying to add music to my ipod nano from ubuntu with no luck. I've tried Amarok, kgtpod and Banshee all with the same result: I can add music to the ipod in the program, and it seems to work (in Amarok and Banshee I can play the new music…
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