Playing media files in various formats including but not limited to (depending on the setup) FLAC, Ogg, Opus, MP3, AAC, WAV, Windows Media Audio, Apple Lossless, WavPack, TTA and Musepack.For example, Amarok can be used to organize a library of music into folders according to genre, artist, and album, can edit tags attached to most music formats, associate album art, attach lyrics, and automatically "score" music by keeping play count statistics.Īlthough a more technical list of features is listed below, here are the primary functions or uses for Amarok: Features Basic uses and functions Īmarok serves many functions in addition to the basic function of playing music files. On June 3, 2009, version 2.1 was released which reintroduced a few of the 1.4 features which had been missing from the initial 2.0 release and introduced some features such as native ReplayGain support for the first time. The app's capitalization was changed to Amarok in June 2006.Ī new major version of Amarok, version 2.0, was released on December 12, 2008. Later the artwork changed to reference Amarok, a wolf in Inuit mythology. The program was originally named amaroK after a Mike Oldfield album of the same name.
The original amaroK was created based upon the idea of a two-pane interface seen in Midnight Commander, and the first version of the software released solely by Kretschmann, was based upon the ideal of allowing users to drag-and-drop music into an interface in which the playlist was displayed on the right and information on the left.Īfter the initial release of AmaroK, several developers joined the project to form the “Three M’s” the first of whom was Max Howell, who acted as an interface designer and programmer for the project, alongside Muesli (Christian Muehlhaeuser), who also provided user interface insight and programming till the late 1.4 versions.
I've merged a plethora of his code into my version of the theme to make what is hopefully the most elaborate and straight forward setup so far.The project was originally started by Mark Kretschmann as a means of improving XMMS due to several usability problems, which interfered with the addition of new files to the playlist due to several user interface elements existing for one task. That goes entirely to the original creator.įurthermore, the newest version implements a lot of TheQwertiest work with his CaTRoX branch. Take no credit for any of the underlying original code and styling. This is a heavily modified fork of the CaTRoX theme by eXtremeHunter1972. For the respective creators please view the comments and descriptions of I did not create nor do I own any of the plugins and scripts included in this You root Foobar2000 installation directory.
With the portable installation simply copy all the files in this directory to
Sure to copy the smoothbrowser, configuration and user-componentsįolders to your application data directory located at %appdata%/foobar2000.Īdditionally, copy the themes directory to your root Foobar2000 installation directory. If you have the standard non-portable version of Foobar2000 installed: make
Once you have completed the steps further below, make sure to install the fonts If at any point you make changes to the interface and wish to reset: There'sĪn included layout file in the theme directory called NekoRoX.fcl which youĬan load via ColumnsUI to reset everything to the way it was intended. Live biography lookup panel for tracks and artists.