Amarok is a powerful music player that can manage your iPod with music, photos, and videos. Here are some tips on how to use Amarok to its fullest potential:

  1. Import your music library into Amarok. This is easily done by dragging and dropping your music files into the Amarok window. You can also use the “Add Music” button on the main toolbar to import your music from a CD or USB drive.
  2. Play your music in Amarok. To play a song, just click on it in the list of songs and hit play. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+F5 for example) to quickly play a specific song.
  3. Edit your music files in Amarok. If you want to make changes to a song’s metadata (such as adding artist information or changing track titles), you can do so by clicking on the song in the list and hitting “Edit”. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+E for example) to quickly edit a song’s metadata.
  4. Organize your music files in Amarok. You can group songs together by album, artist, or genre using the “Group By” menu option on the main toolbar. This makes it easy to find specific songs when browsing through your library!
  5. Share your music with others using Amarok’s sharing features. You can share individual songs or entire albums with friends via email, Facebook, or Twitter using Amarok’s sharing features ..

Install Amarok

In case you don’t have Amarok, you can install it by dropping down to terminal. To open a terminal window click ALT+F2 and type “gnome-terminal” (without quotes).

Or from the menu Applications \ Terminal.

In the terminal window, type the following command and wait a couple of moments while Amarok is installed.

In order to enable support for mp3 format, type the following commands on your terminal window one by one.

Managing Your iPod

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras

Before we can start using an iPod with Amarok, let’s make it’s the default player to manage your iPod. When you plug in your iPod, the following window will pop up.

By default Rythmbox Music Player selected. From the drop down menu select “Open with other Application” and from the Add Application window and select Amarok.

If you want to make Amarok the default application to open your iPod in future, check the box “Always perform this action” and Click Ok.

Managing iPod in Amarok

Now that we have made Amarok as the default application to launch your iPod we can easily transfer files to iPod. Go to Collection in Amarok, Right-click the file you want to transfer to iPod and click copy to collection and select iPod.

That’s it! The song is now copied to iPod. You can also select multiple tracks to transfer them simultaneously.

This should get you started with managing your iPod with Amarok on your Ubuntu machine.

http://amarok.kde.org/