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Part III: Getting Things Done
A popular medium for playing songs on a Web site is the Macromedia Flash
Player. This package plays songs directly in the Web page, without downloading
the song to the computer’s hard drive. You can add this functionality to
your Firefox Web browser using the methods described in Chapter 14. This
section specifically deals with playing song files that you download to your
computer.
Amarok
In the KDE desktop world, the king of audio-file playing is the Amarok music
player. Just about every KDE desktop installation we’ve run into uses Amarok
to play audio files. Here’s the drill:
1. After you have Amarok installed, start it by choosing Applications➪
Multimedia➪Audio Player.
The first time you start Amarok, the First-Run Wizard launches, displays
the Welcome screen, and then takes you to the Configure Collection section
of the Configure screen.
2. Expand (click the + symbols) and contract (click the – symbols) parts
of the filesystem until you find the sections that contain your music.
When you display these folders (for example, /home/rich/Music), click
their boxes to add check marks (see Figure 13-7). Leave (or put) check
marks next to Scan Folders Recursively (which looks in subfolders) and
Watch Folders for Changes (which picks up new files automatically). That
way Amarok does most of the work.
Figure 13-7:
The Amarok
Configure
Collection
screen.