Rediscover Your Music With Amarok Linux Player

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Written by Carlos Peraza on 2005-07-26

I am a gnome lover and I plan to stay the way. KDE has some very nice apps that can be also use in gnome such is the case of KB3, amarok linux music player (http://amarok.kde.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,66/) and others. I am proud to say the linux now has one of the best linux music players I have ever used for music. I remember seeing this application back in mandrake 10 and now it's included by default. In May 30, 2005 it was chosen app of the month. (http://www.kde.org.uk/apps/amarok/)

For fedora users can be install via yum from fedora extras and it takes less then five mins. to accomplish it if you already have KDE installed.

1. Open terminal, become root, and run:

yum install amarok

[root@laptopFC4 imdeemvp]# yum install amarok
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for amarok to pack into transaction set.
amarok-1.2.4-6.fc4.i386.r 100% |=========================|  68 kB    00:01
---> Package amarok.i386 0:1.2.4-6.fc4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libtag.so.1 for package: amarok
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for taglib to pack into transaction set.
taglib-1.3.1-2.i386.rpm   100% |=========================| 4.4 kB    00:00
---> Package taglib.i386 0:1.3.1-2 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 amarok                  i386       1.2.4-6.fc4      extras            5.8 M
Installing for dependencies:
 taglib                  i386       1.3.1-2          extras            139 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 6.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): taglib-1.3.1-2.i38 100% |=========================| 139 kB    00:03
(2/2): amarok-1.2.4-6.fc4 100% |=========================| 5.8 MB    02:33
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: taglib                       ######################### [1/2]
  Installing: amarok                       ######################### [2/2]

Installed: amarok.i386 0:1.2.4-6.fc4
Dependency Installed: taglib.i386 0:1.3.1-2
Complete!
[root@laptopFC4 imdeemvp]#

Visist the amarok website (http://amarok.kde.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,66/) for more info and themes that can be install. Enjoy!