The Media Sources Pane

Overview

The Media Sources pane on the left is the place where you access your local collection as well as other services: Local Music on top, which is the primary interface to your local collection and connected media such as mp3 players and CDs. There is a section for all Internet Services that you have enabled. Here, you can browse listings of radio stations and podcasts; listen/subscribe to them, interact with your last.fm account, purchase music from online stores such as Magnatune and download independent artists' music from Jamendo and more. The Playlists section allows you to create and manage Dynamic Playlists, access your Saved Playlists as well as the Automatic Playlist Generator. The Files section displays an integrated file browser and the Podcasts section will let you access your podcast subscriptions.

Menu Interface

The navigation menu is composed of several folders , each with it's own function , a filter bar , a bookmark button and a navigation bar.

Local Music

Displays the music from your default collection folder , sorted in a specific way.

You can change the sorting criteria using the following menu:

Menu Item	Description
Artist/Album	Shows the collection sorted by the name of the artists and albums. If two entries have the same artist then they will be sorted by the album.	Genre/Artist	Shows the collection sorted by the name of the genre and artist. The same rule as above applies here.
Genre/Artist/Album	Shows the collection sorted by the name of the genre, artist and album. The same rule as above applies here.
Levels	You can designate the window cascade order of your elements.
Show Years	Check if you want years to be displayed.
Show Track Numbers	Check if you want track numbers to be displayed.
Show Cover Art	Check if you want cover art to be displayed.

Internet

Shows your internet collection :

Menu Item	Description
Cool Streams	Shows a list of quality radio streams.
Jamendo	Connects with Jamendo, a growing free music database.
Last.fm	Connects with Last.fm fully embedding the site experience to Amarok.
Librivox.org	Connects with Librivox an extensive collection of free audio books.
Magnatude.com	Connects with Magnatude a great online music store.
Podcast Directory	Shows a large list of podcasts, if you choose to subscribe , the podcast menu will also be updated.

Playlist

Contains the following menu:

Menu Item	Description
Dyanmic Playlist	Dynamically updating parameter based playlist, more on this here
Saved Playlist	Useful for generating and importing playlists, more on this here
Automated PLaylist Generator	Creates playlists by specific criteria, more on this here

Files

A typical file browser that helps you add music to your collection or simply play it from your hard drive.

Podcasts

Lists your subscribed podcasts, you can listen, organize, add, import or unsubscribe podcasts.