September 13, 2008, 4:48 pm
Amarok is a wonderful application for managing and playing your music collection, but the default settings aren’t optimized for speed when it comes to large collections of music. The problems are especially noticeable while trying to use the search box.
The problem is that the default embedded database uses sqlite to store the collection information, which doesn’t scale quite as well as a dedicated database such as MySQL… so we’ll switch to use that instead.
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March 17, 2008, 2:07 pm
Amarok is already an amazing music manager, with Ipod and mp3 player support, last.fm support, a great search feature already built in, the ability to rate your music, display album art, and with a number of default scripts to fetch lyrics from various lyric sites and band information from wikipedia, yes, the wonderful music app can be made even more powerful and fun to use. Below are my top 10 scripts for amarok. Enjoy.
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March 16, 2008, 6:24 pm
Itunes may be for Windows and Mac’s only but don’t let that stop you from using your ipod with linux. There are many options (more than listed here) that aid you in updating your ipod from your linux desktop computer. There are drawbacks of course. Occasionally a new model ipod will come out and these applications may not support your model immediately due to the fact that their ipod support is all reverse engineered. But they are quality applications for ipod management. So here’s a few options to manage your ipod, my personal favorite is gtkPod, but pick what’s best for you.
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