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   6 <authorgroup>
   7 <author>&Lauri.Watts;</author>
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  10
  11 <title>Playing Music</title>
  12 <indexterm><primary>Music</primary></indexterm>
  13 <indexterm><primary>Sound</primary></indexterm>
  14 <indexterm><primary>Audio</primary></indexterm>
  15 <indexterm><primary>&arts;</primary></indexterm>
  16
  17 <para>Intro to &arts;</para>
  18
  19 <para>Performance tuning, sharing devices</para>
  20
  21 <sect2 id="music-media-players">
  22 <title>Music Players</title>
  23
  24 <para>There are several &kde; music players with somewhat overlapping
  25 feature sets, however, each is quite different in style. </para>
  26
  27 <variablelist>
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  31 <imageobject><imagedata fileref="noatun-icon.png" format="PNG"/>
  32 </imageobject>
  33 </inlinemediaobject>
  34 &noatun;
  35 <indexterm><primary>&noatun;</primary></indexterm>
  36 </term>
  37 <listitem>
  38 <para>Noatun is the default &kde; music player.  It features a highly
  39 configurable interface, including several styles of playlist manager, and
  40 many plugins to provide different &GUI;s, visualizations, and other
  41 features.</para>
  42 <para>&noatun; is part of the kdemultimedia package.</para>
  43
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  54 <inlinemediaobject>
  55 <imageobject><imagedata fileref="juk-icon.png" format="PNG"/>
  56 </imageobject>
  57 </inlinemediaobject>
  58 &juk;
  59 <indexterm><primary>&juk;</primary></indexterm></term>
  60 <listitem>
  61 <para>&juk; is a media manager, playlist manager, and metadata tagger.  It is a
  62 highly efficient way to manage all your music files, make and maintain
  63 playlists, and maintain the metadata tags in your music.</para>
  64 <para>It is equally useful as your primary music player, or managing
  65 playlists and files for use in another application.</para>
  66 <para>&juk; is part of the kdemultimedia package.</para>
  67
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  76 <varlistentry>
  77 <term>
  78 <inlinemediaobject>
  79 <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kaboodle-icon.png" format="PNG"/>
  80 </imageobject>
  81 </inlinemediaobject>
  82 &kaboodle;
  83 <indexterm><primary>&kaboodle;</primary></indexterm></term>
  84 <listitem>
  85 <para>&kaboodle; is a one shot player.  That means, it will run, play a file,
  86 and stop.  &kaboodle; is useful for instance if you want to quickly listen
  87 to a single file without interupting your current playlist from another
  88 media player.</para>
  89 <para>&kaboodle; is part of the kdemultimedia package.</para>
  90
  91 <para><mediaobject>
  92 <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kaboodle.png" format="PNG"/>
  93 </imageobject>
  94 </mediaobject></para>
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  96 </listitem>
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 101 <inlinemediaobject>
 102 <imageobject><imagedata fileref="amarok-icon.png" format="PNG"/>
 103 </imageobject>
 104 </inlinemediaobject>
 105 <application>amaroK</application></term>
 106 <listitem>
 107 <para><application>amaroK</application> is a popular third party application. You should be able to
 108 find packages from your normal distribution source.</para>
 109
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 112 </imageobject>
 113 </mediaobject></para>
 114
 115 </listitem>
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 117 </variablelist>
 118
 119 <para>Most of the &kde; based movie players such as
 120 <application>Kaffeine</application> and <application>kmplayer</application>
 121 also make useful music players.</para>
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