Amarok

by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 15, 2009 07:50 AM

— filed under: Multimedia Solutions

Amarok is a powerful music player and manager made for the KDE Desktop environment. Amarok uses the gstreamer framework for music playback and encoding. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 and iTunes music stora aac files, aren't included in gstreamer by default. You can add support for such formats by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org

Requirements

This assumes you have a working Fedora installation and that you have configured yum to use rpm.livna.org

Doing the work

Installing Amarok

Amarok is not incuded by default, to use amarok you first have to install it:

Open a terminal
Enter:
```
su -c 'yum install amarok'
```
Amarok can now be found in the menu, under "Sound & Video"

Adding support for non-free formats

As mentioned, legal issues stops Fedora from including support for non-free formats such as Mp3 and aac.

Open a terminal

For F7 or Newer Enter:

su -c 'yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld'

Restart Amarok, it should now be able to play mp3, aac and more.

Troubleshooting

How to test

More Information

Disclaimer

Users should be aware of the legal limitations of the mp3 format and other non-free formats. Please do read the legal issues page.

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net.

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