User Reviews and Votes for Amarok

Submitted by Sergio Fernandes on 19-Aug-2004 18:51:26

Summary: the best audio player for kde - by far.

Details: amarok was developed as an answer to the bad interface that noatun has, and the clumsiness of juk - and it works like a charm! http://amarok.kde.org/

Pros: fast, beautiful, customizable

Cons: not yet part of standard kde

Period used: 2 weeks

Other products used: juk, noatun, kaboodle, xmms

Submitted by philipp on 19-Aug-2004 23:45:33

Summary: El mejor de los nuevos para linux

Pros: easy nice stable free

Cons: cant play some mp3s

Period used: 2 meses

Other products used: a lot

Submitted by pocoO on 17-Sep-2004 11:16:03

Summary: A lot has to happen before I give up amaroK

Pros: Nice integration in KDE, easy to use, db for easy collection managment

Cons: Depends largely on arts (ok, I could use gstreamer, I know)

Period used: Jan - now

Other products used: xmms, winamp, win media player, musicmatch, mpd, noatun, mplayer, juk, realplayer, iTunes

Submitted by Wouter Deconinck on 17-Sep-2004 14:08:57

Summary: THE player for linux!

Details: iTunes for linux, but better!! Simple to use, fully featured, album covers, osd, play counts, etc etc etc... GREAT!

Period used: since 1.0

Other products used: xmms, musicmatch, itunes, winamp, audion, etc etc

Submitted by Nick Texidor on 21-Sep-2004 08:07:07

Summary: KDE killer app

Details: This iTunes-ish app will soon surpass its Windows and Mac brethren in usability, without sacrificing sheer power.

Pros: efficient, quick, powerful . . . did I mention free?

Cons: beta crashes intermittently, but hey, it's a beta

Period used: a couple months

Other products used: Everything under the sun (Windows & Linux)

Submitted by John Hammerle on 25-Sep-2004 22:58:31

Submitted by Mauro Mazzieri on 02-Oct-2004 07:18:13

Submitted by illogic-al on 08-Oct-2004 15:42:51

Details: AmaroK is a nice mediaplayer with support for many backends. It is relatily simple to use but has slight deficits in the UI, mainly because the designers put their work into drag&drop(wich is very good supported) but loose sight of a real and clearly structured interface. It has a really good collection-browser, like WinAmp's Library. It is fast, because it's database based.

Pros: Collectionbrowser, backend-support

Cons: unstructered UI

Period used: 1/2 Year

Other products used: JuK(messed up my collection)

Submitted by Dennis Schridde on 10-Oct-2004 07:45:53

Details: AmaroK is a nice mediaplayer with support for many backends. It is relatily simple to use but has slight deficits in the UI, mainly because the designers put their work into drag&drop(wich is very good supported) but loose sight of a real and clearly structured interface. It has a really good collection-browser, like WinAmp's Library. It is fast, because it's database based.

Pros: Collectionbrowser, backend-support

Cons: unstructered UI

Period used: 1/2 Year

Other products used: Others on Linux in order: XMMS-1.2.10; Kaffeine-0.5 (w/ Xine-1.0); KMPlayer-0.8.3 (w/ MPlayer-1.0); On Windows: WinAmp-5.05;

Submitted by Dennis Schridde on 10-Oct-2004 07:45:53

Period used: 6 month (earlier versions)

Other products used: xmms

Submitted by Dieter Zander on 11-Oct-2004 15:32:37

Details: sorry... the first voting was false :-(

Period used: 6 month (earlier versions)

Other products used: xmms

Submitted by Dieter Zander on 11-Oct-2004 15:32:37

Submitted by thenomor on 22-Oct-2004 07:19:31

Summary: Amrok is very good player

Other products used: xmms, juk, msmp9, itunes, wimamp

Submitted by Luis on 30-Oct-2004 01:39:27

Submitted by asbin on 10-Nov-2004 17:11:30

Submitted by peter lamm on 31-Oct-2004 11:30:34

Summary: Amarok is a very nice player with very few missing features

Details: I can't quite give it a 5 because of a few crash problems, and the fact that it does not have a file rename feature like JuK, though it is still far better than it. amaroK rocks. Best player for KDE by far.

Other products used: JuK, Noatun, WMP, WinAMP, XMMS, Rhythmbox, iTunes

Submitted by Quinn on 01-Nov-2004 19:14:20

Submitted by Fabio on 11-Nov-2004 18:30:46

Pros: One of few that does streaming radio on Linux

Submitted by Brian Jonas on 13-Nov-2004 19:07:52

Summary: Makes a monkey of all other media players on bsd/linux.

Details: Finally, KDE has a killer media player. No more joking around with XMMS, this is of a similar level of quality to iTunes or WMP. It's a music player/jukebox specifically, and is like the juk/XMMS drag 'n' drop combo some KDE users favour. Great jukebox/media library with cover art integration etc, nice, stylish, tactile player. Not especially light on the resources, but certainly more stable, and less leaky than most so it's more conducive to a stable desktop. It plays nice. It's not skins-obsessed, and the default look has a gentle character and style you won't tire of easily. Finally! It's a top-notch piece of software.

Pros: As featureful as corporate mp products.

Cons: Not cross-platform.

Period used: 2 months.

Other products used: Windows Media Player, iTunes, WinAmp, MusicMatch Jukebox, Juk, XMMS, zinf, Rhythmbox, Noatun, RealPlayer.

Submitted by Ed Black on 18-Nov-2004 16:15:03

Summary: amaroK finally made me ditch xmms.

Details: amaroK is supremely well designed for the job it does. Who says linux apps have to be awkward or quirky?

Pros: Excellent catalogue and playlist functions.

Cons: Player window in a little dull.

Period used: 7 days

Other products used: XMMS, Totem, JuK, and all the others.

Submitted by bongomaniac on 24-Nov-2004 14:10:48

Summary: Amarok rules!

Details: Best mp3/ audio player ever!

Pros: Context bar is great, Everything about it is good, runs on linux.

Cons: ...

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: Windows Media Player, Winamp, Itunes, juK, XMMS

Submitted by Chris Fraser on 25-Nov-2004 01:49:05

Summary: best audioplayer evar

Details: see above The interface is not as amazing as the rest of it, but it's very usable nonetheless. The features would rate somewhere around an 8.

Pros: everything

Cons: nothing?

Period used: several months, this specific version for several hours ;)

Other products used: musicmatch, winamp, sonique, mpd, xmms

Submitted by illissius on 28-Nov-2004 12:06:18

Summary: aucun ne lui arrive la cheville.

Details: C'est le meilleur player pour la musique c'est tout. Et pour pleins de raisons qui sont autants techniques qu'ergonomiques. Amarok + Kaffeine (4.3) Voil l'idal pour le multimdia sous linux.

Pros: ?

Cons: ?

Period used: tout le temps.

Submitted by Gyan000 on 11-Dec-2004 20:55:21

Period used: 6 month

Other products used: XMMS, REalPlayer, MediaPlayer

Submitted by Valentin on 12-Dec-2004 08:07:58

Summary: Amarok

Details: Nice player. excellent playlist system. Sorting media has never been easier for me.

Pros: What can I say? Its for linux and looks great.

Cons: crashes sometimes when updating your collection

Period used: about 2 months

Other products used: noatun, Xmms, Windows media trash.

Submitted by Chad C on 28-Dec-2004 14:33:23

Submitted by TheChaman on 29-Dec-2004 16:44:41

Submitted by Pavel Benisek on 03-Jan-2005 15:31:48

Submitted by tixo on 10-Jan-2005 14:31:13

Period used: 3 months

Submitted by O. MARI on 11-Jan-2005 15:47:36

Submitted by Steve on 10-Nov-2004 23:38:28

Summary: Best player for audio.. too bad it has so many bugs.

Details: The best music player I've ever seen with support for lotsa neat features (cover downloader, lyrics downloader, automagic tag filling, playlist manager, k3b integration, built-in crossfader, OSD, and many others). The very annoying thing is that it still has MANY bugs... segfaults pretty often.

Pros: Lots of features, easy to use, nice UI

Cons: Many bugs, frequent segfaults

Period used: few months

Other products used: xmms, beep media player, realplayer, kaffeine

Submitted by Robson on 15-Jan-2005 07:27:50

Summary: simply unmatched

Details: nothing, nothing, nothing, is as good as amaroK. not in windows, not in OSX and not in Linux. AWESOME sound quality, customizable, lyrics downloader, album cover getter, meta tag autofiller, support for audioscrobbler built in, song suggestions, just plain awesome in every way. its absolutely perfect.

Pros: everything

Cons: none

Period used: not sure, few months

Other products used: sonique, winamp(since 1998), xmms, beep media player, WMP, foobar, iTunes, musicmatch, real, mplayer, juk, noatun, kaffeine,

Submitted by Dimitri on 16-Jan-2005 22:10:33

Summary: The best audio player ever made!

Details: Wow, that player really surprises me! The best the cover manager and autodownloading, qeueing, interface,....

Pros: Wow, that player really surprises me! Cover manager and autodownloading, qeueing, interface

Cons: First versions (but very mature)

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: xmms, winamp, mm jukebox, real jukebox, freeamp, Sonique, Windows Media Player, noatun, juk,...

Submitted by Alain Crespo on 17-Jan-2005 19:01:36

Submitted by michmdr on 17-Jan-2005 21:09:03

Submitted by michel on 19-Jan-2005 08:37:48

Details: Fantastic audio player for Linux with many and nifty features (Like, for instance, automatically adding song-suggestions from audioscrabbler to your playlist while playing)

Submitted by Simon Simonsen on 22-Jan-2005 11:12:10

Summary: Best KDE Player

Details: Best KDE Player (KDE answer to XMMS)

Submitted by Troydm on 31-Jan-2005 05:17:27

Submitted by me on 06-Feb-2005 16:10:50

Submitted by George Ryrstedt on 07-Feb-2005 14:47:50

Submitted by Adarsh Sridhar on 09-Feb-2005 10:34:21

Submitted by Martin Dosch on 15-Feb-2005 14:50:15

Summary: I really like Amarok

Details: Everything works just fine, except for hiding showing the player, but that might be an operating system specific problem.(Gentoo with Xfce4.2)

Period used: 4 month

Other products used: xmms

Submitted by Thieving Magpie on 19-Feb-2005 19:15:00

Submitted by Anonymous on 14-Nov-2004 19:19:22

Submitted by Wylis on 28-Feb-2005 00:37:49

Summary: almost a little too full featured :)

Details: best player so far. I love it... the greatest.

Submitted by Daniel Mader on 28-Feb-2005 23:57:54

Submitted by bill on 01-Mar-2005 09:48:27

Submitted by ALeX on 01-Mar-2005 16:12:06

Summary: 5

Details: Best player ever

Submitted by maciek on 03-Mar-2005 18:38:00

Other products used: XMMS, Winamp

Submitted by Maciek S on 05-Mar-2005 03:23:01

Summary: Good...

Details: Good all around, except has no equilizer, and only for KDE.

Submitted by Sam Hinkle on 05-Mar-2005 14:32:21

Summary: The best player available for Linux :)

Details: I kept using xmms for a long time because Winamp was the one and only for me on windows. Now amarok is my favorite player in Linux. Haven't been using Windows lately so I cannot say if it's better than some Windows player. It's sure better than iTunes.

Pros: Much features and easy to use

Cons: The equalizer is hard to find :)

Other products used: Winamp, XMMS, Musicmatch, Juk, Yammi, Kmusicmanager, iTunes

Submitted by Jukka Hellen on 07-Mar-2005 10:26:05

Pros: with newer computers (500mhz processors and above) its just a wonderful media player

Cons: heavy on system resources with slower processors

Period used: 3 mths

Other products used: XMMS, Kaffine, Windows Media Player, Noatun, Real Player, Winamp, MPlayer, Juk

Submitted by Chavon on 07-Mar-2005 15:57:25

Summary: Music player designed for KDE Desktop (*nix)

Details: Full featured music player with all the bells and whistles. Music library/metadata (optional mysql connection) based GUI with optional 'small' player window ala winamp. Stats built up on favourite songs etc, combined with the Audioscrobbler plugin can recommend new artists/bands. Album cover/Lyrics retrievals. Musicbrainz for fixing inaccurate tags, visualisations. Wide range of configuration options for different sound engines. Without a doubt the best and most ambitious music player I have used. I hate giving things really high marks like this, but I really cannot fault it in comparison to the opposition right now - blew me away (once I got it working!)

Pros: Features, Interface, Developing very quickly.

Cons: Can be difficult to set up with all the options. Might need to compile yourself - I did! It also isn't skinnable and there are no plans for it to be. This doesn't matter to me, but I know how much some of you like your skins. Haven't figured out how to ge

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: media player (probably every version bar 10), winamp, realplayer, musicmatch, xmms, bmp (and plenty others, but not for long enough to remember)

Submitted by NoXiS on 08-Mar-2005 13:00:05

Submitted by Hannelore Kohl on 11-Mar-2005 15:42:34

Submitted by Massimiliano Cavicchioli on 15-Mar-2005 11:46:23

Submitted by lsa on 19-Mar-2005 21:23:03

Period used: 6 months

Submitted by huk on 23-Mar-2005 13:39:20

Submitted by Sinok on 25-Mar-2005 20:47:24

Submitted by a on 30-Mar-2005 10:43:56

Submitted by Karl Karzelek on 31-Mar-2005 13:43:08

Summary: The Best thing after Linux

Details: Simple, slick, and overloaded with features.

Other products used: XMMS,Juk, VLC, Kaffeine, MPlayer, Winamp, Real Player

Submitted by manulite on 03-Apr-2005 19:20:33

Submitted by Mike on 26-Feb-2005 14:28:19

Summary: Great. Best I've used since good ol' Winamp 1.0!

Pros: Great features, lots of nifty gadgets, built-in Audioscrobbler, nice catalougeing

Cons: Kind of heavy program. Slow to start, may crash sometimes...

Period used: About six months.

Other products used: Winamp, Xmms, Foobar, iTunes, Realplater, WMP, InfranView, Kaffeine, Zoom Player, Beep

Submitted by Jeff Eklund on 13-Apr-2005 12:39:20

Summary: Great!

Details: Normalnie nie widzia?em lepszego!

Submitted by Stef on 13-Apr-2005 19:30:11

Summary: amaroK, the KDE sound player :)

Details: amaroK, amha rox :) It is really the best free sound player of the world ! Great features, good library management, good integration with KDE...

Pros: Great integration with KDE

Cons: None :)

Period used: Since 10 months

Other products used: Juk, XMMS, bmp (or xmms2), and under windows : my player ;)

Submitted by Pinaraf on 17-Apr-2005 08:45:31

Summary: THE next generation of audio player

Details: A new way to manage files, playlists and others medias (online radios, lyrics, pictures, ...) 2 interfaces : player style / amarok style A lot of amazing features !

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: winamp, xmms, noatun, media player classic, bsplayer, kaffeine, zinf, .....

Submitted by swap38 on 17-Apr-2005 18:09:23

Other products used: xmms, beep, juk, rythmbox, zine

Submitted by Rikard Anglerud on 19-Apr-2005 07:18:32

Submitted by Tuomo Kuusela on 27-Apr-2005 15:51:40

Submitted by lightwarrior on 28-Apr-2005 21:56:28

Submitted by postNuKe on 29-Apr-2005 08:37:26

Details: the est player on earth!

Other products used: yes, xmms,winamp,vlc,noatun,juk,rythmbox. amarok was the best!!

Submitted by YvesFischer on 30-Apr-2005 15:44:54

Details: I`m missing .wma-support.

Period used: 2 months

Submitted by willy king on 01-May-2005 08:15:33

Submitted by fugacyna on 06-May-2005 08:57:01

Submitted by marcoplaut on 08-May-2005 05:50:59

Summary: The Best music mp3, ogg player

Pros: easy, simple, just works

Cons: ip radio streams could have more features

Period used: 8 months

Other products used: juk, wimamp, xmms, mediaplayer

Submitted by Lafa on 09-May-2005 04:50:17

Summary: My favorite player!

Details: Just my favorite player! I listen all the day to web radios with AmaroK. The sounds is great (Creative 7.1 managed). I like the extra functionnalities like the lyrics tool: great! But also the auto-get cover picture! Well ... simply the best sound player I used until now. Long life to AmaroK.

Pros: Great

Cons: ... euh ... don't see!

Period used: 5 monthes

Other products used: all !!

Submitted by Theo on 14-May-2005 09:17:01

Submitted by Markus Lindqvist on 19-May-2005 09:04:48

Submitted by Federico on 20-May-2005 06:16:04

Submitted by ScarFace on 26-May-2005 04:09:12

Summary: filled with cool features

Details: Has integrated audioscrobbler and musicbrainz functionality. Supports every possible audio format via gstreamer engine. Has dynamic playlists.

Period used: 1 week

Other products used: Rhythmbox, xmmx, noatun, realplayer, windows media player, foorbar2000

Submitted by murkus on 01-Jun-2005 11:40:47

Period used: 1 year

Submitted by Piotr Brus on 03-Jun-2005 17:25:42

Submitted by Akshay on 05-Jun-2005 07:13:30

Submitted by Alec N. Silva on 06-Jun-2005 19:25:16

Submitted by SteelRage on 07-Jun-2005 10:13:00

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: rhytmbox, juk, winamp, kaffeine, xmms

Submitted by Marco on 08-Jun-2005 08:53:14

Submitted by Balky on 09-Jun-2005 09:32:34

Summary: excellent

Submitted by Anonymous on 11-Nov-2004 17:31:33

Summary: Perfekt Player

Details: its the best player of the world

Pros: sdgf

Submitted by asf on 18-Jun-2005 08:07:03

Submitted by holifield on 25-Jun-2005 14:01:03

Submitted by jarod82 on 27-Jun-2005 14:29:51

Details: amaroK is the best media player ever. It supports all kind of engines (xine, gstreamer, akode, alsa, helix,...), and has many many features (showing related artist info, lyrics), party mode, support for visualisations from xmms, winamp,... Even comming to a windows desktop near you real soon (made possible by the native qt port for windows)

Pros: Many

Cons: ...

Period used: >6 months

Other products used: wmplayer, winamp, xmms, jukebox

Submitted by x_terminat_or on 29-Jun-2005 15:38:10

Cons: no plugins, no cd ripping

Submitted by juan on 07-Jul-2005 22:38:17

Submitted by Cristian Falcas on 14-Jul-2005 14:24:30

Details: Best Linux player I have used.

Pros: Best organizing, Album Art, Good Playlist

Cons: Internet radio not great, wont sync with my nomad zen extra

Submitted by spider on 26-Jul-2005 03:13:35

Submitted by Patrick on 29-Jul-2005 21:36:23

Summary: An ingenious open source player

Pros: Everything you ever need for your music

Cons: Long startup

Period used: 1/2 year

Other products used: xmms, juk, noatun

Submitted by hibatsu on 30-Jul-2005 08:31:26

Period used: > 3 months

Other products used: xmms, winamp, kaffeine, xine

Submitted by Carlos Wagner on 06-Aug-2005 22:33:59

Submitted by 654812315 on 16-Aug-2005 14:42:28

Summary: One of the best

Details: If your using kde, it is THE player to have ! I switch to kde for it :)

Pros: integration with kde

Cons: doesn't fetch album info automaticaly

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: xmms

Submitted by Chebe on 17-Aug-2005 07:32:18