Amarok
Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before — and it looks good doing it.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Haiku
- Flatpak
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Library Management
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler- Podcast Subscription
- Music Library
- Dark Mode
- Support for scripting
- Ad-free
- Multiple languages
Tags
- Music Organization
- audio-cd
- audio-tagging
Amarok News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Amarok
Amarok 3.3.1 update fixes crashes and improves scripting supportAmarok 3.3.1 is now available and resolves occasional crashes related to the new audio backend and ...
- POX published news article about Amarok
Music player Amarok 3.3 released with Qt6/KF6 support, GStreamer audio engine, and moreAmarok 3.3, known as “Far Above the Clouds”, has been released as the latest version of this classi...
- Danilo_Venom published news article about Amarok
Amarok releases version 3.1 with Last.fm integration and KDE Frameworks updateAmarok 3.1 has been released, bringing significant updates and enhancements. This new version intro...
Recent activities
- POX updated Amarok
- Kusco updated Amarok
- Alaik updated Amarok
- Lehuga added Amarok as alternative to Blaiz Music Player
Raygen added Amarok as alternative to MellowPlayer
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What is Amarok?
Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before — and it looks good doing it!
Features
- Scripts: Enhance your Amarok experience with community developed scripts.
- Dynamic Playlists: Create playlists that automatically update based on complex, but easy to use, constraints. e.g., tracks from around the year 1967
- Context View: Customize the supplemental information related to your music with the Plasma powered Context View.
- PopUp Dropper: Simplify drag and drop actions with the revolutionary PopUp Dropper menu system.
- Multiple Language Translations: Enjoy Amarok in your native language, with over 45 community contributed translations.
- Collection Management: Organizing your music collection has never been easier with Amarok's powerful tagging, renaming, and sorting abilities.
- Database Importing: Import your iTunes or old Amarok 1.4 database and keep your playcounts, statistics, and scores.
- Scriptable Services: Integrate other web services into Amarok with community developed services. Here are just a few: Greek Radio Streams, and NPR.
- Bookmarking: Mark positions in tracks to come back and listen to later. Automatic bookmarking will ensure you can pick up where you left off in that podcast or audio book
- File Tracking: Move your music files around or rename them and don't fear! Amarok will keep track of the files. Your statistics and playlists are safe. As of Amarok 2.2 file tracking can use Musicbrainz identifiers.
- Audio CDs: Play your Audio CDs in Amarok, and use the Copy to Collection feature to easily rip them to your local collection.
Amarok information
Developed by
KDE Licensing
Open Source (LGPL-2.1) and Free product.Alternatives
167 alternatives listedNews
4 news article related to AmarokSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Since I migrated to Linux, I was looking for a player that emulates the experience and organization of iTunes, which was the app where I best organized my music library. The closest I found was Amarok, but at the time I couldn't install apps outside the distros graphics environments. Finally, I installed. There are some problems and I think it lacks an interface that better takes advantage of the space used, with additional columns to group some fields and always make them visible instead of using scroll bars. Still, it is a very interesting player as it allows to open Wikipedia articles about the band or album playing (and once in article, navigation by other links is free), displays a list with some similar artists and it is possible to read the bio of each of them. It also displays some pictures of the band, all inside the player window! What missed the most was the field of letters that is not worked, even in songs whose lyrics are embedded. I will take a better look at the documentation to see if it is possible to solve this.
Amarok is no longer being developed for the Windows operating system.
Confirmed, last update 2013, from download page:
"Please note that the current Windows version 2.8.0 was released in 2013. Although usable as is, it has not received updates since, and can be considered to be in unmaintained state."
From other comments here about Windows errors be safe to remove this OS from the list of options.
looking for a program that can play and organize my hard drive of music' easier to set up than Foo Bar
Amarok has been my media player of choice for many years on linux. The team has really put in some great effort into making it work on windows too and now I can install and use it on windows without a glitch! Thanks!!
Although not officially supported on windows, I found the installer with requisite KDE bits to work without problems. Used to find it okay to use on linux, but the interface on windows seems rather broken - played files fine, but could do little else, including volume control, and buttons seemed unexpectedly inactive. In short I wouldn't recommend this for windows.
My experience with this software on a mac is horrible. You have to build it yourself and it is not updated very often.
It's not really available for Windows, is available through KDE for Windows, and to say you need to install a whole desktop environment just to use one player is not exactly the idea of availability