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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Features
Amarok News & Activities
Recent News
- 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...
- POX published news article about Amarok
Amarok 3.0 “Castaway”: First stable release since 2018, powered by Qt5 & KDE Frameworks 5The Amarok development team has unveiled Amarok 3.0 “Castaway”, marking the first stable release of...
Recent activities
- michaelolsen thinks Privacy focused is a important feature of Amarok
POX added Amarok as alternative to monoPlayer- braky updated Amarok
- Wolfe04 liked Amarok
POX added Amarok as alternative to Rune Player- diegopds83 reviewed Amarok
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...
- diegopds83 liked Amarok
- POX updated Amarok
- POX updated Amarok
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