amaroK LiveCD

amaroK Live CD is a unique collaboration between open music and free software. The amaroK Live CD developers designed this project as a way to show people the power of the amaroK music player. The amaroK Team is very proud of this release and hope you enjoy the music that they have selected. There's a party in the CD.

What is amaroK?

amaroK is a music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface. amaroK makes playing the music you love easier than ever before - and looks good while doing it.

Let's see some of amaroK's features:

￭ Quick and simple drag and drop playlist creation
￭ Super eye-candy interface
￭ Multiple backends supported (GStreamer, xine, helix, NMM, MAS and aRts)
￭ 10 band equalizer
￭ Automatic cover art download using Amazon services
￭ The unique and powerful Context Browser
￭ Automatic play-statistics generation (iRate style)
￭ Full lyrics download
￭ Read about your bands with embedded wikipedia browsing!
￭ Funky visualisations from libvisual and XMMS
￭ Streaming from any KIO source
￭ Crossfading
￭ Podcasting Support
￭ Fully configurable translucent OSD for track changes
￭ K3B (CD-burning) integration
￭ KDE integration
￭ Style your Context Browser with custom CSS styles
￭ Save space in your Context Browser with collapsable boxes
￭ Show the Context Browser without amaroK open through the Konqueror sidebar!
￭ Full support for Last.FM! Share your music taste with friends on the net
￭ Generate dynamic playlists based on last.fm suggestions
￭ Support for SQLite, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases ensuring fast collection access
￭ Support for your iPod, iRiver and generic USB device with the all new media-browser
￭ Powerful scripting interface, allowing for easy extension of amaroK
￭ Complete DCOP access
￭ Translated into more then 35 languages, thanks to the KDE internationalization team.

The amaroK Team is working very hard right now to bring you a new and improved version of their free music player, version 1.4, which is now at Beta3. Most likely, there will be also a RC, followed by the major release itself.

Most of the music on the amaroK LiveCD has been provided by Magnatune, which is a revolutionary music label which aims to reinvent the music business, applying the lessons learned from the open source movement to the recording industry. Fair use, remix rights, and musicians actually being paid!

Free means freedom. amaroK is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License. Magnatune uses open licensing so that both customers and musicians get a fair deal. Half of every Magnatune sale goes to the artist!

We have taken the CD for a "test drive" and here are some screenshots:




Download now amaroK LiveCD from Softpedia.
Download now amaroK 1.4 Beta3 from Softpedia.