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IMPORTANT: Sharing Playlists with Other Players
Save playlists in
m3u
or
pls
format, so you can share them with any other
players using these formats.
Smart Playlists offer various views of your collection, such as tracks never played,
newest tracks, or tracks by genre. Right-click to add subfolders or to create your
own smart playlists.
Radio Streams lets you listen to live radio streams from the Internet. An extensive
list is already shipped with amaroK. Right-click to add more or create subfolders.
Podcasts imports podcasts to amaroK. Right-clicking opens a menu where you can
add podcasts and subfolders, refresh all podcasts, or set the scan interval.
At the bottom of the playlist browser window, you can Enable dynamic mode and
configure it with Show Options. Dynamic mode is a feature that allows you the
flexibility of picking music from your entire collection while keeping a relatively
small playlist that is easy to maintain. Refer to the online documentation (open it
with
F1 ) for details.
Media Device
If you own an iPod, you can use this browser to play music from it or to add music
from your collection to the iPod. It must be mounted at
/mnt/ipod
before starting
amaroK. To listen to tracks from the iPod, drag and drop them from the list view
to the playlist window. To add tracks from the collection to the iPod, drag tracks
from the playlist window to the list view.
File Browser
This tab opens a file browser. It corresponds to the standard KDE file selector dialog
with the usual controls for navigating the file system. Enter a URL or a path directly
into the text input field. From the contents displayed, drag elements to the playlist
to include them. You can also perform a recursive search for a file in a given direc-
tory. To do so, enter a text string for the title and the location at which to start the
search. Then select Search and wait for the results to appear in the lower section
of the window.
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