Managing Your Music Collection - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - KDE Getting Started Manual

digiKam's main window contains a tree view at the left and
shows thumbnails of the images at the right. For quick ac-
cess to your images, use the sidebar at the left, which allows
you to switch between different views, sorting the images
according to Albums, Dates, Tags or Searches. To enter
digiKam's viewing and editing mode, double-click an image
thumbnail.

Managing Your Music Collection

KDE's amaroK music player allows you to play various audio
formats, create playlists, import music from an iPod* (or
upload files to your iPod), and listen to streaming audio
broadcasts of radio stations on the Internet. The file types
supported depend on the engine used for amaroK.
amaroK is not yet available as a KDE 4 application, but you
can use the KDE 3 version of amaroK on your KDE 4 desk-
top. To start amaroK, press
first start, amaroK launches a First-Run Wizard with which
to define the folders where amaroK should look for your
music files.
amaroK's main window shows a sidebar on the left providing
different views: your music collection, a context browser,
your playlists, a file browser, etc. The right part of the win-
dow shows the current playlist. To play music, just drag and
drop items from any of the sidebar browsers to the playlist
area. Double-click an item in the playlist to start playback.
If your music files are properly tagged (containing at least
information about the artist and album), you can make use
of several nice amaroK features. To automatically fetch the
album cover images from Amazon, select Tools → Cover
Manager and click Fetch Missing Covers. The next time you
play a track from this album, the cover is displayed in the
context browser and on the on-screen display. To learn
more about the artist, switch to the Context browser in the
sidebar. Click the Artist tab to make amaroK search for the
appropriate Wikipedia article, which is then displayed in
the context browser. To view a track's lyrics, click the Lyrics
tab to start a search and display the results.
and enter amarok. On
Alt + F2
To configure the use of another engine (or various other
amaroK features), select Settings → Configure amaroK.
Configuring Your System with YaST
Use the YaST Control Center to change the installation and
configuration of your whole system. Administrator (root)
permission is required to open YaST. To open YaST, press
and enter yast. A dialog opens in which to enter
Alt + F2
the root password.
YaST holds various modules for adjusting your system set-
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Software: Use the modules of this category to set certain
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such as backup or restoration of files.
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aspects, such as the firewall options, and create and manage
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technical support and updates.
Miscellaneous:
ily be classified into the other module groups. For example,
you can view log files, read the release notes and install
drivers from a vendor CD.
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Use these modules to configure your
These modules are for network ser-
Use the modules of this category to
Here, you can configure security
Holds several modules that cannot eas-