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Ofte stillede spørgsmål
Hvad er Amarok?
- Amarok er en musikafspiller. Mere information kan findes i oversigten over funktioner og samlingen af skærmbilleder. Se Kom godt i gang hvis du ikke kender Amarok. Du kan finde Amaroks håndbog her.
Hvad er forskellene imellem Amarok 2 og de tidligere versioner?
- Amarok 2 er en næsten fuldstændig omskrivning af kildekoden og har således ikke meget at gøre med Amarok 1.4. Hvis du mangler en funktion, så skriv dit ønske på Bugzilla.
- Her har du en kort oversigt over nye funktioner:
- Måske den vigtigste nye funktion er Service-fundamentet, som integrerer musikkilder på netværket direkte i Amarok. Dette inkluderer online musikbutikker, medieservere, musik opbevaret på nettet med mere. På grund af dette har du nem adgang til musik fra Magnatune, Jamendo, Last.fm, MP3Tunes Locker, Ampache og mange andre. Du kan forvente, at flere store (og små) navne vil dukke op efterhånden som 2.x udgaverne udvikles. Se Internet mediekilder for mere information.
- En anden spændende funktion er feltet Kontekst som udgør den centrale del af Amaroks vindue og erstatter den gamle Kontekstbrowser fra 1.x-serien. Den viser information om den musik som spilles lige nu, for eksempel albumomslag, vurdering, mærker, samgtekster, information om kunstner, beslægtede numre og kunstnere og guitar- og bastabulaturer. Takket være den anvendte Plasma-teknologi kan feltet Kontekst udbyde mange slags informationer som AJAX, video og animationer, alt på en iøjefaldende måde. Mere om Kontekstfeltet her.
- Som ledsager til feltet Kontekst har vi udviklet en ny pladsbesparende spilleliste. For at spare plads i vandret retning grupperer den spornavn, albumnavn og albumkunst sammen og muliggør yderligere gruppering efter albumnavne. Desuden kan du omarrangere den så meget du har lyst, Hvis du foretrækker den gammeldags 1.4-spilleliste, så kan du også få det. Se mere i Ændring af layout for spillelisten.
- En anden værdifuld nyskabelse er understøttelse af video. Det er rart at kunne se sine musikvideoer i Amarok.
- Vi må ikke glemme de Dynamiske spillelister, som udvider de gamle Dynamiske spillelister. De lader dig definere en automatisk opbygget spilleliste baseret på specifikke kriterier kaldet "bias", som påvirker det tilfældive udvalg af spor. Dynamiske spillelister får selskab af den nye Automatiseret spillelistegenerator, som bruges til at generere lister til bestemte formål og af bestemte længder. Se Dynamiske spillelister og Automatisk generering af spillelister for mere information.
- Der er mange flere nyttige funktioner som avanceret scripting, dynamiske samlinger, forbedringer af brugerfladen, borbedret håndtering af medieenheder, en ny håndtering af podcasts, understøttelse af andre platforme med mere.
Installation
Kan jeg bruge Amarok uden KDE?
- Amarok har brug for dele af KDE for at kunne køre, men den kører fint under Gnome og andre skrivebordsmiljøer, herunder Windows og OS X. For at Amarok skal kunne køre, så skal kdelibs og kdebase-runtime være installeret.
- Nogle funktioner, som on-screen-visningen, kræver, at din vinduesmanager er indstillet til at understøtte de relevante freedesktop.org-standarder. Mere om at køre Amarok på andre platforme her.
Hvorfor bruger Amarok KDElibs?
- Vi understøtter Amarok på alle platforme. Vi bruger KDElibs of Qt, fordi de giver os et glimrende udviklingsmiljø. Ud over Linux og BSD virker Amarok også på Windows og MacOS, og der inndes installationssoftware, men desværre har vi (endnu) ikke ressourcer til at yde fuld understøttelse af disse operativsystemer. Næsten alle vore udviklere bruger frie operativsystemer, og disse er vores første prioritet. Vi tager maget gerne imod udviklere med Windows- eller OS X-baggrund, som er villige til at hælpe med og forbedre Amarok på disse platforme.
Generel brug
How can I control Amarok from the keyboard?
- Keyboard shortcuts are available; see our Keybinding Reference page for more information.
- To control Amarok from the console, type
amarok --help-all
for a current complete list of available control commands.
Where can I get support for Amarok?
- There are several options. Often times problems you have with the initial install of Amarok are best answered by experts of your particular Unix or Linux distribution. You may seek help from fellow users and developers at the Amarok forum and the Amarok IRC channel at irc.freenode.net channel #amarok.
- Note that bugzilla is not a place to seek support. Please do enter a bug if you are serious about helping fix a bug in Amarok itself.
Questions about the Playlist
- More about the Playlist here.
When I start Amarok, I see an empty playlist. How do I actually get tracks in there?
- Use the Collection on the left side to navigate to the desired artist/album/track. Then drag the files into the Playlist part on the right. You can use Dynamic Playlists or the Automatic Playlist Generator to populate your playlist. You can also drag files in from any file manager, such as Dolphin. You may also double-click a track, artist or genre in your Collection or file-system, or right-click and or .
How do I remove tracks from the Playlist?
- Select the track(s) you want to remove, and press the Delete key. Or right-click the selection and choose .
How can I load a playlist?
- Just drag and drop the playlist file into the Playlist, like you would do with any other file. It's that simple!
How can I save the current playlist?
- Use the button in the Playlist toolbar. Slow-click the disc icon to chose to save to your harddisk, or to the database.
Playback Questions
How do I play audio CDs?
- When you insert an audio CD, it will be shown as a local collection. Drag to the playlist or Pop-Up Dropper, or right-click the selected tracks and choose or .
What media types does Amarok support?
- Amarok does not play music by itself, but lets Phonon do that job, specifically the VLC, GStreamer or Xine backends of Phonon. Therefore, whatever files they can play, Amarok can play. To analyse file tags, Amarok uses Taglib, which supports most file types that contain metadata.
What is Phonon? What are Phonon backends?
- Phonon is the multimedia framework of KDE 4. You can find more information here.
- Usually the VLC backend works better than the Xine one, although this is not always true. We also suggest you try the Gstreamer backend, although it is still in development. You can find more details on installing backends in the download page.
Amarok won't play mp3s, what can I do?
- Have a look at the mp3 information page. You probably lack the codecs required by your particular phonon-backend (VLC, Gstreamer, or Xine).
I can't get any media to play in Amarok, why not?
- Test the sound frameworks at the command line:
xine-check
- (The xine-ui package contains xine-check)
- The output from these commands should help you identify the problems you are having and how to fix them.
I have a second soundcard and I'm using ALSA. How do I make Amarok use it instead of the default?
- Configure this in the Phonon system settings module.
Where's the equalizer?
- The equalizer is only available if you are using a Phonon-backend which supports it, which the modern ones now do. You can find it in the menu. You can get more information about configuring Phonon-backends in your distribution in the download page.
How do I turn on visualizations?
- Visualizations are not implemented yet, but they will be very soon.
How can I add podcasts?
- Go to Podcast section in the left toolbar and then select Add the podcast URL where indicated. More about podcasts here.
- We also have some services, such as gpodder and Podcast Directory to help you find great podcasts. Enable services in the menu: .
How can I use Amarok to stream to my own radio station?
- If you want to stream directly to an icecast or shoutcast server the answer simply is: it is not supported. You could use IDJC for that.
General questions
What are scripts?
- They are little pieces of software that add some functions to Amarok. There are a lot of scripts, and you can find them in kde-apps.org or you can find and install them inside Amarok using the Script Manager (until Amarok 2.4.1). More details here. After Amarok 2.4.1, you will find the Script Manager from the menu, .
Can I use Amarok 1.4 scripts in Amarok 2?
- No. A new and powerful scripting API has been created, which provides huge improvements but won't let you use your old scripts. The new scripting system is based on QtScript and will significantly reduce Amarok's dependencies, a huge problem for non-technical and cross-platform users, and will greatly reduce the amount of external processes launched at runtime. Another advantage is that the new API will allow much deeper integration with Amarok than the old scripting system. Amarok Scripting API.
What are Moodbars?
- Moodbars show the mood of a song in the progress bar. More about Moodbar here.
Can I play video files?
- Amarok is mainly a music player so no video file management, collection support, DVD playback, subtitles, or any other sophisticated features are available. However, the video applet lets you play YouTube video clips inside Amarok.
Is it Amarok, AmaroK or amaroK?
- It is Amarok! The former spelling was amaroK, but it was changed due to its strange look.
How are track scores determined?
- Amarok assigns a score (a number 0-100) to a song based on how many times you've listened to it and whether you skip the song without it finishing. Every time the song finishes playing, the score is changed.
- Here you have an example script that can calculate scores:
if( playcount <= 0 ) # not supposed to be less, but what the hell.
newscore = ( prevscore + percentage ) / 2
else
newscore = ( ( prevscore * playcount ) + percentage ) / ( playcount + 1 )
end
- You can easily create your own script with your own algorithm. Look at the Script-Writing-Howto for further information.
How do I manually change a track's score?
- You may change the score manually in the Edit Track Details dialog, available by right-clicking on a track, and choosing the tab. Before Amarok 2.4.1, this is called the tab.
But I also want that stars system like in other players!
- Amarok, of course, supports an user-defined rating system, and you can rate your tracks with a single click using the Current Track applet. You can also do this in the context menu (right-click) tab (before Amarok 2.4.1, this is ). If you have the rating stars displayed in your playlist layout, you can also edit there, with the slow double-click.
Can I drag and drop Plasma applets from the main window to the Desktop?
- No, but there are many Plasmoids available for your Desktop, which will let you display information provided by Amarok as well as control Amarok.
Can I use removable media inside Amarok?
- Amarok has a greatly improved support for the media devices based on Solid, the KDE hardware layer, that doesn't need a lot of configuration. You should be able to just plug in your device and access it within Amarok. Also, thanks to the Dynamic Collections, your media devices could become part of your music collection, and be searchable and accessible within the Collection Browser when it's connected.
- You can transfer your songs, albums and artists from your local collection by right-clicking ; and you can also do it in the other way: right-click . More about Amarok and devices here.
How can I save a stream?
- First of all, load the stream into the playlist. There are several ways to do this: downloading the file, for example from shoutcast.com, and opening it with Amarok; using the menu ; among others.
- Once the stream is loaded, you can save it by clicking on which is under the Playlist, and giving it a meaningful name. The Stream will then be added to the Saved playlists view for later reference.
Can I use the old Amarok's collection in Amarok 2? Will my tags, score are ratings be lost?
- A database importer is available. You will be able to keep your ratings and statistics just fine. More here.
Where do I find the settings for Amarok?
`kde4-config --localprefix`/share/apps/amarok
`kde4-config --localprefix`/share/config/amarokrc
Troubleshooting
How can I obtain a backtrace?
- If Amarok has crashed and you want to report it, visit the Debugging HowTo. The bug report must be sent in bugs.kde.org after verifying if it has already been reported.
Amarok just freezes! How can I help get this fixed?
- You can obtain a backtrace of a frozen instance of Amarok using gdb like so:
$ gdb -p `pidof amarok` (gdb) thread apply full bt all
- Then just post the backtrace to PasteBin, as described in the Debugging HowTo.
Amarok takes a lot of time to start
- If this happens you have to check what scripts you have installed and what internet services are running, because some of them may slow down the startup. Also, if you have streams in the playlist when you open Amarok, the startup can take a little longer.
- On the other hand, if you don't use KDE, but a different desktop environment, startup time can be increased very slightly because there are more libraries to be loaded.
Development questions
How do I get a GIT version of Amarok?
- How to obtain and build Amarok Git. Check here for a local build: Building from Git Locally: Full Summary
Why isn't Amarok part of KDEmultimedia?
- The developers don't want the man telling them when they can release. (Meaning, packages in the KDE SC proper have a release schedule that doesn't fit with Amarok's fast-paced development.)
I've found a bug / I've got a great idea for Amarok!
- Please report it at bugs.kde.org. If you have a list of suggestions or wishes it may be best to send them to our mailing list: [email protected]. Simply posting the idea to our IRC channels or on an obscure wiki page or blog won't help much as the information will get lost.
Do you accept patches?
- Happily! Your best course of action is to let us know what you plan to do before you do any work so we can discuss it, but don't fret; we haven't turned down a patch yet! Discussion is mostly to help you patch the correct bits of Amarok. Submit your patches and code contributions to git.reviewboard.kde.org. See also How to Submit Patches to Amarok. If you have a bug fix then just go ahead; this is open source after all.
Why did you choose the name Amarok?
- Amarok is an album by British composer Mike Oldfield. Project founder Mark Kretschmann happens to like it a lot, and he thought the name had a nice sound. Plus, of course, it contains the all important K.