AmaroK RocKs - Winamp for Linux
A few weeks ago I wrote about the benefits of switching to XMMS for Winamp users. I just came across an article elaborating on the joys of AmaroK (wolf in Inuit) so I thought I’d link to the review here.
AmaroK allows you to create file trees using artist, album, year, or genre in any order. So to find, say, all the albums that were released in a particular year, sort by year first and then by album, and a file tree opens that lists all the years in the first level, and all the albums in the second. There’s also a simple search filter to find something particular. I have four different versions of The Left Banke’s “Walk Away Renee,” and I can quickly find them all by typing that song title in the search box. The ability to structure the file tree in a number of different ways and to search it easily is amaroK’s single most important usability feature.
