Revision as of 10:53, 18 December 2010

Media Devices

Introduction

This page describes how to use amarok to play music from various media devices such as MTP devices, Apple ipods, and generic devices.

Connecting Media Devices

Connect your media device using the USB data cable. The device notifier applet will automatically pop out with list of all available media devices. Click on the "connect" icon to access your device.

Play Music from the Media Device

Amarok will rake a few seconds to scan the device for music track. Till then the vfat volume will show 0 tracks.

Changing Cover Art

If there is an album with an incorrect cover, you can fetch new one from the Internet. Right-click on the cover and select Fetch Cover. A dialog window for finding a new cover will open. Amarok automatically tries find the correct album art by searching with artist name and album name. Usually that works very well as with the example and you will most likely see a correct cover on results as in the example. If no correct cover is found, you can try to enter a custom search phrase or change the source of images by clicking on Configure... You can select where to search, including Last.fm, Google Images, Yahoo! Image Search or Discogs. After finding a cover for album, just click OK and changes will apply.

Alternatively you can use a image from your hard drive. If you want to store the image in the Album folder, title it cover.jpg or cover.png for best results. As before, right-click on the incorrect image and click on Set Custom Cover.

If you don't like the cover art at all, you can unset it by right-clicking on the image and selecting Unset Cover.

Tip

You can find this menu without Cover Manager too. Just right-click on the album or song from your playlist or collection and hover the Album section.

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-== Fetching Missing Covers ==
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-If there are albums with missing covers, you can try to automatically fetch them all from the Internet. Just select <menuchoice>Fetch Missing Covers</menuchoice> from the top side of the window and Cover Manager will try to find covers. If there are many albums missing covers, the process may take some time.
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+Amarok will rake a few seconds to scan the device for music track. Till then the vfat volume will show 0  tracks.
 == Changing Cover Art ==