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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

<para>Basically, this adjusts the previous score (statistics_percentage) by a decreasing amount depending on how many times the track has been played. The more times the track has been played, the less of an impact each play has on the score.</para>
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<para>How do I manually change a track's rating?</para>
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<para>You may change the rating manually by right-clicking on the playlist columns titles (the ones that say title, artist, album etc) and select Score. You can then change the score like any other song attribute, by right clicking it and selecting "Edit Tag 'Score'" or pressing F2. You can also edit the score in the Tag dialog, available by right clicking on a track.</para>
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<para>Why isn't &amarok; part of KDEmultimedia?</para>
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<para>The developers don't want the man telling them when they can release. (Meaning, packages in KDE proper have a release schedule that doesn't fit with &amarok;'s fast-paced development).</para>
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<para>How do I prevent the &amarok; icon from blinking in my system tray?</para>
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<para>This is a new feature that has been added that some users might find distracting. Simply uncheck the "Flash icon tray when playing" option under General Options.</para>
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<para>How can I show/remove the analyzer in the playlist window?</para>
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<para>The playlist analyzer is part of the playlist toolbar. Select <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure Toolbars</guimenuitem></menuchoice> 
Add/Remove Analyzer to the Current actions 
Press OK 
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<para>How do I change the Context Browser theme?</para>
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<para>Download a <ulink url="http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/Themes">theme</ulink> or make your <ulink url="http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/CSS_Styles">own</ulink>. Install it through <menuchoice><guimenu>Configure &amarok;... </guimenu><guisubmenu>Appearance</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Context Browser Style</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, click Install New Style.</para>
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<para>What legal issues caused "Blue Wolf" icon replacement?</para>
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<para>The icon was way too similar to the Warp Graphics, Inc. logo (elfquest.com), so it had to be removed to avoid problems.</para>
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<para>I don't have any visualizations. Where can I obtain these ?</para>
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<para>Install the latest version of <ulink url="http://libvisual.sf.net">libvisual</ulink>.</para>
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<para>How can I add my favorite streams to &amarok;?</para>
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<para>First of all, load the stream into the playlist. There are several ways to do this. You can simply click on a Stream-Playlist URL in Konqueror; &amarok; will then automatically open the stream. E.g. on <ulink url="http://www.shoutcast.com">shoutcast.com</ulink>, click on the "Tune In" button. Or you can use the "Add Media" function to load a stream.Once the stream is loaded, you can save it by right-clicking on "Current Playlist" in the Playlist-Browser, then select "Save", and give it a meaningful name. The Stream will then be added to the Playlist-Browser view for later reference.</para>
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<title>Konqueror Sidebar</title>

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<para>What is Konqueror Sidebar?</para>
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<para>Konqueror sidebar allows you to monitor/control &amarok; while browsing with Konqueror. To see it, run Konqueror, press F9 to see sidebar, click on preferences (top one) button, in dropdown menu choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Add</guimenu> <guimenuitem>&amarok; Konqueror Sidebar</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
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<title>Audioscrobbler</title>

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<para>What is Audioscrobbler?</para>
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<para>Audioscrobbler is a free service that is sends information regarding which songs are played to an independent server. The service signup is free and only requires that you pick a user name and password that is not already in use. Audioscrobbler is currently utilized in &amarok;.</para>
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<para>I do not want &amarok; to send information to Audioscrobbler!</para>
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<para>Uncheck "Submit tracks I play" to prevent querying Audioscrobbler for suggested tracks.</para>
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<para>How do I get to the Audioscrobbler &amarok; group?</para>
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<para>The Audioscrobbler &amarok; group is located here: <ulink url="http://www.audioscrobbler.com/group/Amarok+users/">&amarok; Audioscrobbler Group</ulink></para>
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<title>General Engine/Playback Questions</title>

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<para>Which sound engine should I use?</para>
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<para>Please refer to the <ulink url="http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/Audio_Engine_Comparison">Audio Engine Comparison</ulink>.</para>
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<para>What version of ALSA should I use?</para>
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<para>If you output to ALSA, you should use the newest available version of ALSA possible! Old versions of ALSA have caused plenty of crashes, and have caused plenty of wrongly attributed crash-reports.</para>
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<para>I've installed GStreamer/xine/etc., but the relevant audio-engine won't show up. What gives?</para>
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<para>&amarok; was probably compiled before you had xine and/or gstreamer installed, so the ./configure routine did not include them in the list of engines to be built. You will have to rebuild &amarok;.</para>
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<para>But I did rebuild &amarok; after installing gstreamer and/or xine, but the engine still does not show up. What happened?</para>
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<para>You most likely are using a distro that packages development libraries separately from the main library, so even though gstreamer is installed, &amarok; cannot link to it because gstreamer-devel is not installed. The same issue exists for xine, you must install xine-devel if your distro splits packages in this fashion. Don't forget to rebuild &amarok; after installing the devel packages.</para>
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<title>GStreamer engine</title>

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<para>Why is there always a gap although I have crossfading enabled?</para>
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<para>Make sure you don't have gst-ffmpeg installed. Instead, install the gst-mad plugin. </para>
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<para>I'm getting this error: "GStreamer-CRITICAL **: Factory for `adder' has no type.". How to fix?</para>
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<para>Your GStreamer was built with Prelinking, which is not compatible with GStreamer. You must rebuild it without this option. 
merlin-tc advises: <quote>In addition, don't use any ldflags when building GStreamer.</quote></para>
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<para>You receive an error "There is no element present to handle the file's mimetype audia/mp4" even though you have the correct gstreamer-faad plugin is installed.</para>
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<para>To correctly play mp4 or m4a files with gstreamer, you must also have gstreamer-quicktime in addition to gstreamer-faad installed.</para>
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<para>You receive an error "There is no element present to handle the stream's mimetype audio/mpeg"</para>
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<para>You are trying to play an mp3 stream without the gstreamer-mad plugin installed. Install the gstreamer-mad plugin and run "gst-register" as root before restarting &amarok;.</para>
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<para>I have a second soundcard and I'm using ALSA. How do I make Amarok use it instead of the default?</para>
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<para>In <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guisubmenu>Configure Amarok</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Engine</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, check the 'Device' checkbox and fill in the device. Typical this is 'hw:0' for the default soundcard, and 'hw:1' for the second soundcard.</para>
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<title>xine engine</title>

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<para>How can I change where the audio is output to?</para>
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<para>If you are using ALSA, you can output to a specific device with xine. Set up an ~/.asoundrc (user only) or /etc/asound.conf (system wide) file that aliases your hardware devices, and then insert that alias in the "device used for stereo output:" box in the xine-engine configuration tab. Alternatively, you can directly enter the alsa device (hw:0,0 or hw:1,0 and so on). If you choose this latter (alternate) method, be aware that ALSA's corresponding plugfoo (e.g. plughw:0,0 or plughw:1,0 and so on) routing through alsa-lib is much preferred.</para>
<para>Here is a sample ~/.asoundrc for a machine that has an onboard Intel AC97 codec and a usb-audio device:</para>
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       pcm.intel8x0 {
          type plug
          slave.pcm "hw:0"
       }
      
       ctl.intel8x0 {
          type hw
          card 0
       }
       
       pcm.usb-audio {
          type plug
          slave.pcm "hw:1"
       }
       
       ctl.usb-audio {
          type hw
          card 1
       }
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<para>Now enter usb-audio in the xine-engine setup screen and output should go to the usb-audio device (with alsa-lib properly handling sample rate conversion, channels, and so on).</para>
<para> To use a dmixed virtual device, ensure that the "sound card can do mmap" checkbox is unchecked.</para>
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<title>aRts engine</title>

<note><para>Sorry, aRts-engine has no maintainer, but feel free to fix it yourself! You could be the new aRts-engine maintainer we need so desperately!</para></note>

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