<sect1 id="playing-music"> <!-- Uncomment the <*info> below and add your name to be --> <!-- credited for writing this section. --> <sect1info> <authorgroup> <author>&Lauri.Watts;</author> </authorgroup> </sect1info> <title>Playing Music</title> <indexterm><primary>Music</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>Sound</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>Audio</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>&arts;</primary></indexterm> <para>Intro to &arts;</para> <para>Performance tuning, sharing devices</para> <sect2 id="music-media-players"> <title>Music Players</title> <para>There are several &tde; music players with somewhat overlapping feature sets, however, each is quite different in style.</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term> <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="noatun-icon.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </inlinemediaobject> &noatun; <indexterm><primary>&noatun;</primary></indexterm> </term> <listitem> <para>Noatun is the default &tde; music player. It features a highly configurable interface, including several styles of playlist manager, and many plugins to provide different &GUI;s, visualizations, and other features.</para> <para>&noatun; is part of the tdemultimedia package.</para> <para><mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="noatun.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject></para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term> <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="juk-icon.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </inlinemediaobject> &juk; <indexterm><primary>&juk;</primary></indexterm></term> <listitem> <para>&juk; is a media manager, playlist manager, and metadata tagger. It is a highly efficient way to manage all your music files, make and maintain playlists, and maintain the metadata tags in your music.</para> <para>It is equally useful as your primary music player, or managing playlists and files for use in another application.</para> <para>&juk; is part of the tdemultimedia package.</para> <para><mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="juk.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject></para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term> <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kaboodle-icon.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </inlinemediaobject> &kaboodle; <indexterm><primary>&kaboodle;</primary></indexterm></term> <listitem> <para>&kaboodle; is a one shot player. That means, it will run, play a file, and stop. &kaboodle; is useful for instance if you want to quickly listen to a single file without interupting your current playlist from another media player.</para> <para>&kaboodle; is part of the tdemultimedia package.</para> <para><mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kaboodle.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject></para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term> <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="amarok-icon.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </inlinemediaobject> <application>amaroK</application></term> <listitem> <para><application>amaroK</application> is a popular third party application. You should be able to find packages from your normal distribution source.</para> <para><mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="amarok.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject></para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para>Most of the &tde; based movie players such as <application>Kaffeine</application> and <application>kmplayer</application> also make useful music players.</para> <!-- Add links to "further reading" here --> <!-- <itemizedlist> <title>Related Information</title> <listitem><para>to be written</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist>--> </sect2> </sect1> <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file Local variables: mode: xml sgml-omittag:nil sgml-shorttag:nil sgml-namecase-general:nil sgml-general-insert-case:lower sgml-minimize-attributes:nil sgml-always-quote-attributes:t sgml-indent-step:0 sgml-indent-data:true sgml-parent-document:("index.docbook" "book" "sect1") sgml-exposed-tags:nil sgml-local-catalogs:nil sgml-local-ecat-files:nil End: -->