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covers of all albums. To filter the covers displayed, click an individual artist in the tree
view or enter a term in the input field at the top of the window. Use View to toggle be-
tween displaying all albums, albums with covers, or albums without covers.
There are three different methods for assigning covers to the albums:
Automatically Assign Covers
amaroK can automatically fetch all missing covers displayed in the main windows
from Amazon. Use Amazon Locale to determine from which Amazon Web server
the covers should be fetched then click Fetch Missing Covers.
IMPORTANT: Proper Tagging Needed
amaroK fetches the covers from Amazon using the query string Artist
- Album. This information is extracted from the tags of your music files.
The better they are tagged, the better the hit rate is when automatically
fetching covers.
Manually Choose a Cover Fetched from Amazon
If you want more control over what image to use and what query string to use to
retrieve a cover, right-click an album in the main window and choose Fetch From
amazon.com. Next Cover lets you cycle through all images available. Save selects
the actual cover and assigns it to the album selected. If you are not satisfied with
the covers displayed, use New Search to refine the search. Use Amazon Locale
from the toolbar of the main window to determine from which Amazon Web
server the covers should be fetched.
Manually Assign Covers
If you already have your own cover images, you can assign them by right-clicking
an album and choosing Set Custom Cover.
Visualizations
If visualizations for amaroK are installed, you can select various graphical effects for
the music played with Tools > Visualizations. Native amaroK visualizations are displayed
in the player window. Cycle through the various available display modes by clicking
the animation.
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