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Amarok是一款在LINUX或其他类UNIX操作系统中运行的音频播放器软件。 经过两年开发后

<chapter id="using-kapp">
<title>Using &amarok;</title>

<para>&amarok; is a versatile audio player that offers many different ways of controlling your music collection. Like any ordinary audio player, &amarok; has a player window for controlling your most basic functions. &amarok; also has a playlist that is second to none. The playlist window has multiple browsers for creating and browsing your entire audio collection.</para>

<para>In this chapter we will go over how to use all the features of &amarok; including creating a collection and a playlist.</para>

<sect1 id="player-window">
<title>The Player Window</title>

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<para>The player window is your one click &amarok; control center. At the top of the player there is a scrolling display to show the currently playing track or stream. Just below the scrolling display there is an area to display the current track's play time, bit rate, and sample rate. Clicking this area will change the track time from total played to total time remaining.</para>

<para>The player window also features a selection of audio analyzers also located under the scrolling display. You can cycle through the available analyzers by left clicking the analyzer area.</para>

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<para>The &amarok; player analyzers can be detached from the player window. By pressing <keycap>d</keycap> on your keyboard the active analyzer will open in an independent, re-sizeable window.</para>
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<para>Also below the scrolling display are the <guibutton>PL</guibutton> and <guibutton>EQ</guibutton> buttons. The <guibutton>PL</guibutton> button is used to quickly enable or disable the playlist window, while the <guibutton>EQ</guibutton> button is used to enable and disable the equalizer if your engine is compatible.</para>

<para>The remainder of the player includes the playback buttons and the volume and track position sliders. Use the sliders to choose a track postion or volume level that suits your needs. Use the playback buttons to control the playback of the current track, or to skip either forward or back through your tracks.</para>

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<sect1 id="equalizer">
<title>The Equalizer Window</title>

<para>The built in equalizer is easy to use and works with all engines. There are 17 presets included, ranging from Classical to Techno, and you can easily create your own. </para>

<para>To access the equalizer choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Equalizer</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the main window or click the <guibutton>EQ</guibutton> button from the Player window. Once you check the <guibutton>Enable Equalizer</guibutton> check box in this window, the equalizer will be active.</para>

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<para>You can use the dialog's drop down box to select one of the built in presets. You can also adjust individual sliders here. Adjusting a slider will automatically cause a switch to the Manual preset so feel free to experiment with them until you find a desirable combination. When you are ready to save, click the <guiicon>Add new preset</guiicon> icon to the right of the drop down box. If you change to another preset without saving your changes they will be lost. In addition to saving you can also click the <guiicon>Manage presets</guiicon> icon, to the right of the drop down box, to delete or rename presets.</para>

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<sect1 id="playlist-window">
<title>The Playlist Window</title>

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<para>The &amarok; playlist is the most advanced playlist available to any audio player for &kde;. The playlist offers many features that are not found in any other player. You should not be intimidated by the power of the playlist however, as it is still the easiest to use.</para>

<para>The playlist window can be divided into two main sections, on the left is the sidebar. The sidebar is where you will find some of the excellent features of the playlist like the <link linkend="context-browser">Context Browser</link>. On the right side of the window is the playlist itself. The playlist is simple to use yet powerful enough for even the most advanced users.</para>
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<sect1 id="playlist-browsers">
<title>The Sidebar Browsers</title>

<para>Browsers in &amarok; allow you to acess your music collection in several different ways. They are situated on the left side of the window, and each one is represented by a tab with its name written on it. Clicking on a tab brings the selected browser into view. If a browser is active clicking on its tab again will contract the browser. Only one browser is visible at any time, although you can drag tracks from one tab to another by hovering on the target tab for 1 second until that tab becomes visible. You can also hide browsers by simply right-clicking on any tab and (un)selecting the desired browser(s) in the provided context menu.</para>

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<sect2 id="context-browser">
<title>Context Browser</title>

<para>The Context Browser displays various information related to the currently playing track. Its appearance can be modified by using themes known as <link linkend="configure-appearance">Context Browser Styles</link>. It is organized into three tabs: <quote>Music</quote>, <quote>Lyrics</quote>, and <quote>Artist</quote>. These tabs, whose function will be more fully explained below, supply information on different aspects the track currently being listened to.</para>

<note><para>Users of previous &amarok; versions will notice that there is no longer a <quote>Home</quote> tab. The information from this tab has been redistributed throughout the &amarok; interface. Analogous information can be found mainly in the Statistics dialog, accessible through <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Statistics</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para></note>

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<sect3 id="current-track-tab">
<title>The Music Tab</title>

<para>The <guilabel>Music</guilabel> tab offers information about the currently playing track, and it's artist and album.</para>

<para>The first pane in this tab is for information about the track. The title of the pane lists the track name, artist name, and album. Inside the pane you will find it shows the album cover image for the track. Next to the image you will find a <ulink url="http://www.musicbrainz.org/">MusicBrainz</ulink> icon. <inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="musicbrainz.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject></inlinemediaobject> Click this icon to do a MusicBrainz look-up for the track.</para>

<para>Below the MusicBrainz icon there is more information about you current track. Here you will find the total number of times the track has been played, the track's current core, and when the track was first and last played.</para>

<tip><para>To display album cover images in the Context Browser you must have the album cover image in the same directory as the track you are listening to. Supported file formats are .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, and .png. The images can be named anything, but images with the word <quote>front</quote> in the filename will be used with preference. The Context Browser will also use cover images saved from the album cover downloader, or images embedded in ID3v2 tags.</para></tip>

<para>The next pane, <guilabel>Suggested Songs</guilabel>, lists multiple tracks for suggested listening. Click on any of the listed tracks to begin playback of the track.</para>

<para>Below <guilabel>Suggested Songs</guilabel> is the <guilabel>Favorite Tracks By Artist</guilabel>. This pane lists the five highest rated tracks by the current track's artist.</para>
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<tip><para>You can adjust the amount of information shown in the <guilabel>Music</guilabel> tab by right-clicking anywhere on Music tab and toggling items on the context menu.</para></tip>

<para>The last pane, <guilabel>Albums By Artists</guilabel>, lists all of the albums by the current track's artists that are in your collection. Clicking on any of the albums in this pane will expand the album to show the album's content.</para>

<tip><para>You can click on tracks in any of the panes to begin playback of the track. You can also right click albums and tracks for a pop-up menu to choose several ways to play or enqueue the track or album.</para></tip>

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<sect3 id="lyrics">
<title>The Lyrics Tab</title>

<para><guilabel>Lyrics</guilabel> tabs fetches lyrics for the currently played song from one of the supported websites. This feature is flexible, and it's possible to write scripts to fetch lyrics from different sites. See Chapter on Script-Writing. When you click on the Lyrics tab, &amarok; attempts to fetch lyrics for the current track. If there is no lyrics script running you will be given the opportunity to select one.</para>

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<para>You can perform various actions on the lyrics tab, using its toolbar buttons.</para>

<para>The <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button opens (in an external browser) the <quote>Add Lyrics</quote> page on the lyrics website, depending on which script you run.</para>

<para>The <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> button allows you to edit lyrics for the current track. They are then stored in &amarok;'s collection database. This does not require a lyrics script to be active.</para>

<para>The <guibutton>Search</guibutton> button launches a google.com search (in an external browser) for the lyrics of the current track.</para>

<para>The <guibutton>Refresh</guibutton> button clears cached lyrics for current track, and searches again.</para>

<para><guibutton>Open in external browser</guibutton> displays the current track's lyrics in your external browser.</para>

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<sect3 id="wiki">
<title>The Artist Tab</title>

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<para>The Artist tab shows Wikipedia article about currently played artist. Toolbar contains:</para>

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<para>Navigational buttons for moving forward or backward</para>
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<para>Page buttons for jumping to artist's, album's or track's Wikipedia page,</para>
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<para>A button for opening current page in external browser</para>
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<para>A configuration button for setting the Wikipedia locale</para>
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<sect2 id="collection-browser">
<title>Collection Browser</title>

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<para>The Collection browser is the heart of &amarok;. The entire collection is viewable here and sorted using various groupings. Within each grouping, everything is always alphabetical, symbols and numbers first, and case insensitive. In every grouping method, tracks that have unknown artists and/or albums are always grouped at the start of your collection, under <quote>Unknown</quote>. Although track numbers are not shown, tracks are listed in their album order. Clicking the header of the collection list reverses the sort order. Left-clicking on the expand icon to the left of any entry in your collection will expand that entry.</para>

<para>The <quote>Group By</quote> pull-down menu allows you to group your collection in several ways:</para>

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<para><menuchoice><guimenu>Group By</guimenu><guimenuitem>Artist</guimenuitem></menuchoice> - Top level sort only, every track is grouped under its artist, with no consideration given to albums or genres.</para>
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<para><menuchoice><guimenu>Group By</guimenu><guimenuitem>Artist/Album</guimenuitem></menuchoice> - Tracks are sorted into artists, and then beneath this, sorted by album. If you want to see compilation or soundtrack albums, this is the best way to view your collection - these albums are grouped together at the very begin of your list, under <quote>Various Artists</quote>.</para>
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<para><menuchoice><guimenu>Group By</guimenu><guimenuitem>Artist/Year-Album</guimenuitem></menuchoice> - Sorts by artist, with albums in descending order of year (most recent first). If there is no <quote>Year</quote> tag set for a track, the default <quote>0 - album name</quote>.</para>
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<para><menuchoice><guimenu>Group By</guimenu><guimenuitem>Album</guimenuitem></menuchoice> - Every album in your collection is displayed alphabetically based on the album name, regardless of artist.</para>
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<para><menuchoice><guimenu>Group By</guimenu><guimenuitem>Genre/Artist</guimenuitem></menuchoice> - Tracks are grouped according to their genre tag, then by artist.</para>
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<para><menuchoice><guimenu>Group By</guimenu><guimenuitem>Genre/Artist/Album</guimenuitem></menuchoice> - Same as above, only with tracks sorted by album, below each artist.</para>
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<para>The remaining items on the pulldown menu allow you to customise the grouping with any combination of the above.</para>

<para>The next two icons on the toolbar change the way your collection is viewed. The first, Tree View, is the default view, and the one you'll probably see the most. The next button enables Flat View, which at first appears empty. Typing search terms in the text entry box immediately below the toolbar will begin to populate your collection, which can be sorted in a variety of ways, by left-clicking on the column headers. right-clicking on the column headers will pop up a context menu allowing you to change the columns shown.</para>

<para>The last icon in the toolbar lets you change your collection setup. Note that if you change any folders, &amarok; will automatically rescan your collection - this may take quite some time if you have many tracks.</para>

<para>Immediately below the toolbar is a search filter, which behaves the same in both Flat and Tree views. See the Playlist section of the handbook for more details on searching techniques.</para>

<para>Below the Search Filter, another pull-down menu lets you see the most recently added tracks to your collection. Several time periods are available, ranging from the last 24 hours, to 1 year, or your entire collection.</para>

<sect3 id="collection-rmb">
<title>The Collection Browser &RMB; Options</title>
<para>The following options are accessible by clicking with the &RMB; on entries in the collection browser.</para>

<para><guilabel>Load</guilabel> - Clears the current playlist and adds selected track(s) as first track(s), in sort order.</para>

<para><guilabel>Append to Playlist</guilabel> - Adds selected track(s) to end of current playlist. Double clicking on a single track in the collection also achieves the same result.</para>

<para><guilabel>Queue Tracks</guilabel> - Adds the selected track(s) to the queue as the next to be played.</para>

<para><guilabel>Save as Playlist</guilabel> - Save the selected tracks as a playlist. You'll be prompted for a name to save as.</para>

<para><guilabel>Add to Media Device Transfer Queue</guilabel> - Adds track(s) to a queue, ready to be transferred to a media device, when such a device is attached. See <link linkend="media-device-browser">Media Device Browser</link> section for more detail.</para>

<para><guilabel>Burn All Tracks By This Artist/Burn To CD</guilabel> - Sends track(s) to &k3b; for burning as either a data or Audio CD. If &k3b; is not installed, this option is not selectable.</para>

<para><guilabel>Fetch Cover Image</guilabel> - Searches amazon.com for a cover image for this album.</para>

<para><guilabel>Edit Information for (n) Tracks</guilabel> - Opens the <guilabel>Track Information</guilabel> dialog and allows you to change tags for one or more tracks. <!--See Editing Tags section for more information.--></para>

<para><guilabel>Manage Files</guilabel></para>

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<para><guilabel>Organize (n) Files</guilabel> - Opens <guilabel>Organize Collection Files</guilabel> dialog. <!--See File Organization section for more information.--></para>
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<para><guilabel>Delete (n) Files</guilabel> - Pops up a confirmation dialog asking whether you want to permanently delete the selected track(s) from your computer.</para>
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<para><guilabel>Mark As Compilation</guilabel> - Sets the selected album as a compilation album, to be listed under <quote>Various Artists</quote></para>

<para><guilabel>Unmark As Compilation</guilabel> - Changes an album marked as a compilation to a normal album, and moves the listing from <quote>Various Artists</quote>, to back under the artists listed.</para>
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<sect2 id="playlist-browser">
<title>Playlist Browser</title>

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<para>The Playlist Browser is used for easy handling of your multiple playlists. The Playlist Browser also features built in smart playlists making it the most clever playlist browser around.</para>

<para>The Playlist Browser is divided into two sections, Playlists and Smart Playlists. The Playlists sections is for your own custom playlists. You can view the contents of your playlists in a list view by clicking the <quote>+</quote> symbol found next to each of the listed playlists. When you view a playlist in the list view new items can be added to the playlist by dragging and dropping them into the view. When you have found a playlist that you would like to load, you can double click the playlist, or press the <keycap>Space Bar</keycap> to have &amarok; load it. The other Playlist Browser keyboard shortcuts can be found in the <link linkend="keybd-shortcuts">Keyboard Shortcuts section</link>.</para>

<tip><para>When you save a new playlist from the Playlist Window it is automatically added to the Playlist section.</para></tip>

<para>The bottom section of the Playlist Browser is the Smart Playlists. The Smart Playlists use &amarok;'s built in data base to compile some useful playlists on the fly. The Smart Playlists include the following:</para>

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<para>All Collection: a playlist with all the tracks that are in your configured collection.</para>
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<para>Favorite Tracks: multiple playlists of the fifteen highest rated tracks in a listview by artitst.</para>
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<para>Most Played: multiple playlists of the fifteen most played tracks in a listview by artitst.</para>
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<para>Newest Tracks: multiple playlists of the fifteen most recently added tracks in a listview by artitst.</para>
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<para>Last Played: a playlist of the fifteen most recently played tracks in your collection.</para>
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