Organization
Organizing your music makes it easier to find what you want. offers you several tools to assist.
First, organize your collection of music, both local and remote:
Collection 
Collection Scanning 
Search in Collection 
Organize Collection 
Remote Collections 
Ampache 
DAAP 
Samba 
UPnP
External Database 
Working with Media Devices 
The Cover Manager organizes your album covers, the Tag Editor helps categorize your tracks, and transcoding allows you to transfer tracks to your devices in encoding they can play.
Cover Manager 
Tag Editor 
Transcoding 

Collection
organizes your music in the Collection.
Collection Scanning 
Search in Collection 
Organize Collection 
Statistics Synchronization Between Collections and with Last.fm 
Remote Collections 
Ampache 
DAAP 
Samba 
UPnP
External Database 
Working with Media Devices 

Collection Scanning
Every time is displaying a collection the information about tracks and albums needs to come from a source.
The source can be an portable device, an Internet service or a database.
For tracks that are in Local Collection folders is using a database to have fast access to the required meta-information.
At first this information needs to be loaded into the database which is usually done by scanning the Local Collection directories for audio files.
This process is called collection scanning.
It is useful to understand the scanning process in order to work better with .

Incremental Scan / Update Collection
The so-called incremental scan will check the collection directories for updates.
This is done every minute if Watch folders for changes is enabled (on by default) but can also be triggered manually by selecting Update Collection from the menu.
The incremental scan will just check the modification date of every folder in the collection against the last known modification time.
This has a couple of implications:
You can trigger a rescan of one directory by modifying its time (such as using touch /path/to/directory in the console).
If files inside a directory are changed the scanner will not notice, because changing a file updates its modification time but not the time of the parent folder. On the other hand most programs that modify the files save them atomically by using a temporary file which is then renamed. Such procedure does update directory modification time and thus triggers directory rescan.
If the collection folders are on a very slow partition the process of checking all the modification times can take some time. Usually this information is cached by the operating system but with large collections that might not be possible. In such a case the scanner might appear to scan continuously. With collections above thousands of directories or when collections are stored on a network drive or an NTFS partition it is recommended to switch off the Watch folders for change option.
If you have problems with deleted tracks still appearing in the collection, or you want to update album covers (which are not updated by a mere Update collection) then you can use the Full rescan option in the settings dialog.
Full rescan will not care about modification dates. It will not delete statistics of existing files; it will, however, delete statistics of tracks that disappeared from the currently mounted collection folders. Because of that it is adviseable to perform the Full rescan only with all Local Collection folders mounted if you move the tracks between mounts. Full rescan also updates play count if the one stored in file tags is greater, rating if the song is unrated and file tags mention rating and score (under the same circumstances).

Progress bar / scanning time
The progress bar will show the progress of the scanning.
Up to 50% the scanner will scan the file system and just buffer the result.
Times above 50% indicate that the scanner is committing the results to the database.
Usually the second step is much faster than the first so don't be surprised if the progress bar seems to jump.
Up to 50% aborting the scan is possible. After 50%, the committing of the files cannot be stopped.
The scanning time depends on your disk speed and other factors.
Usually the first scan is a lot slower than subsequent scans where the files are cached by the operating system.
A scan of 10000 files should take around three minutes on a modern computer. 50000 files should be around 13 minutes. Of course with an SSD (solid state drive) this will be much faster.

Backup of collection
With the default settings is storing all the collection information in a directory called ~.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle/ . It can be a good idea to make a backup of this directory from time to time, especially when you didn't enable the writing back of statistics information.

About unique ids
is tracking files by an id that is either stored in the audio track or computed using file metadata, tag metadata and first few kilobytes of the file.
This id helps to identify tracks that are moved to other locations so that statistics information (rating, score, playcount, first & last played) are not lost.
Currently will not import tracks with duplicate unique ids.
This leads to the surprising behavior that copied tracks still appear only once in .
In some circumstances even different tracks can end up with the same unique id. Such a problem can be seen by the debug output (start with the --debug option in a console) while scanning.

About Albums
The scanner can only read single tracks but will display those sorted by album and compilation (an album without one specific artist). can't rely on the directory in which the files are located, since directory organizational schemes vary so widely.
The scanner is therefore doing the following:
Tracks without an album artist or an artist (or a composer in case of a classical track) are placed in a compilation.
Tracks that have the compilation flag set or an album artist other than various artists will be placed in an album.
Tracks that have the compilation flag set to 0 are placed in a compilation.
Albums called Best Of, Anthology, Hit collection, Greatest Hits, All Time Greatest Hits and Live are always regarded as an album.
If we end up having tracks with several different artists left over they are placed inside a compilation, or else we make one album out of them.
This process is quite complicated. However usually the outputs of the scanner can help in figuring out why the tracks are sorted as they are.
In such a case try executing (on a command line) amarokcollectionscanner -r ~/your/music/directory
Look for compilation tags and tracks with different artist and albumartist tags.
You can remove the compilation tag from mp3 files with the following command: id3v2 -r TCMP your filename here

Search in Collection
Search Collection lets you specify complex filters to search for specific tracks in your collection. Use the edit box in the Media Sources pane or click the button right next to the edit box. Alternatively you can simply press F to activate the search bar.

Edit Box
When you type in the input field, will search for the text in all available tags such as artist, album and title. Your view of the collection will update automatically to display only the matches of the search.
Pressing after searching will populate your playlist with all of the found search items and clear the search box. This is a great way to quickly add hundreds or thousands of tracks to a playlist instantly!
To search in a specific tag, type tag:value into the search bar. Operators like > and < can be used to create more general conditions. Several conditions can be used together by separating them by a space character. For time conditions, use the following abbreviations: d=day, w=week, m=month, y=year.

Tags
The following tags can be searched:
Album
Artist
Bitrate
Composer
AlbumArtist
Genre
Playcount
Rating
Sample Rate
Score
Title
Track
Year
BPM

Additional searchable fields
Along with tags, the following can also be searched:
Comment
Filename
Disc number
Length
Filesize
Format
Added (to Collection)
First played
Label
Last modified

Operators
Numerical tags can use the following operators to create a condition:
Equal: :
Less than: <
Larger than: >

Examples
If you search without specifying a tag, will search in all important text tags:
More complex patterns can be used to get better results:

Edit Filter Dialog
If you prefer to build your searches more programatically, drag down the icons for the search terms you want, and drag to change search-term order. You may search by: Simple text, Title,
Artist name, Album Artist Name, Album Name, Genre, Composer, Comment, Filename,
Year, Track Number, Disc Number, BPM,
Length, Bit Rate, Sample Rate, File Size,
Format, Added to Collection, Score, Rating,
First Played, Playcount, Label, Last Modified.
You can also add OR and AND here.
Select a term and check Invert condition to exclude items matching this term from the results. Choose AND or OR for all terms in this search. If you choose AND, all search-terms must be present.
If OR, any matches will show up.
Of course, clicking removes your selections.

Organize Collection
While organizing your collection in is a straight-forward task, you will be manipulating the actual files on your hard drive. Please be sure you have a backup of your files before you begin.
With the Organize Files dialog of you can easily manage the media files on your hard drive. When you change the naming scheme of media files, you will organize them, which is very powerful. To access the Organize Files dialog, right-click Local Collection Organize Files in the Media Sources pane and the menu interface will pop-up.
Using this option will move the files to a new location, so you not only need appropriate rights for both the origin and the destination location, but also enough space, usually the double of the total file size to have the action perform smoothly. If you are unsure, do NOT use this option.
Context menu to Organize Collection dialog
Context menu to Organize Collection dialog
If the option Organize Files does not appear, you may have Merged View on (toggled by ). In order to safely organize your files, you need to see your collections separated, not merged.

Organizing Files Interface
After selecting the option Organize Files you will first see an additional option that allows you to move the files to a new location, as well as transcode them at the same time. Depending on the codecs you have installed on the system, some format options might not be available and will be grayed out:
First screen when choosing the Organize Files option
First screen when choosing the Organize Files option
For more information about Transcoding, please see the Transcoding section.
After clicking on the Move button on top of the screen, the following interface will show:
Organize Tracks dialog
Organize Tracks dialog

Contents
Interface Item	Description
Collection Folder	The default collection folder. Set multiple folders in Settings Configure Amarok.
Token Bar	Drag and drop multiple tokens here to change the naming scheme of your media files. Only available in Basic view.
Format Presets	When you have created your naming scheme, save it as a preset by clicking Save Preset. Remove presets by clicking Remove Preset.
Replace Spaces With Underscores	If checked, converts spaces in filenames to underscores.
Ignore 'The' in Artist names	If checked, artists' names starting with 'The' will instead be styled ', The'.
VFAT Safe Names	If checked, replaces characters that are incompatible with MS-DOS or VFAT file systems with underscores. Most people can leave this option enabled.
Restrict to ASCII	If checked, all non-ASCII characters will be replaced with underscores. Do not check this option if you have non-English characters in your tags. Most people can leave this option unchecked.
Custom Character Replacement	Replace the tag expressions you write under the Replace box with character strings you write in the With box. Useful if there are mis-spellings in CDDB.
Destination Preview	Shows the original naming scheme of your media files and how they will look after the changes are applied (not available since ver. 2.4.2).
Overwrite Destination	If checked, overwrites files of the same name without asking for further confirmation (not available since ver. 2.4.2).

Advanced Contents
The code version of the Token Bar, which allows you to code the name format of media files. Activate it by pressing Advanced... in the interface menu. To change back click Basic....
Enclose conditional inclusion arguments such as CD number in braces, like this:
%artist%/%album%{/Disc %discnumber%}/%track% %title%
Note: formerly, the coding was %token, as of 2.4 it is %token%.

Statistics Synchronization Between Collections and with Last.fm
Beginning with version 2.7, allows syncing the play-related metadata and statistics of the tracks (such as rating or play count) between any of your collections which show up in Media Sources Local Music and with the Last.fm web service, if you choose to use Last.fm.

Manual Syncing
At any time, you can start manual synchronization from Tools Synchronize Statistics...
From here, you can start a synchronization between the collections you select here, which will default to what you have configured in the Metadata configuration.

Conflicts and Syncing Statistics Dialog
When syncing, will show a dialog window which states the conflicts and statistics of the syncing that has recently been in progress. In this window you will be able to see three tabs: Matched Tracks, Unique Tracks and Excluded Tracks.
Matched Tracks 	 This tab will show all the tracks that has found in more than one collection, and reflects conflicts. When tracks are grouped, you can see two types of background: light green, and light red. A light green background indicates the new or updated field, whilst a light red background will indicate the old/overwritten field. You do not need to solve all conflicts listed here; the particular field of the listed tracks are not going to be synced if you do not resolve the conflict.
Unique Tracks 	 These are tracks found in only one collection. You can use it as a difference view. Track dragging is supported here.
Excluded Tracks 	 These are tracks that are not synced because of different reasons, such as identical metadata, so as not cause to disorder in the database.

Synchronizing with Last.fm
If you have the Last.fm plugin enabled and configured correctly with your Last.fm account, you can choose to also synchronize your play counts, ratings and labels with your Last.fm Library. The sync takes some time, but you may continue using while it is syncing. Please note that Unattended Synchronization (which will be explained later on) is not possible with Last.fm, and synchronization from Last.fm to needs to be initiated manually.

Spelling Auto-Correction
Last.fm enables by default a feature that will auto-correct common misspelling during the sync. It can happen that even if you scrobble many track plays, it does not show up in Matched Tracks as Last.fm knows the track under a slightly different name.
You can disable this feature on the Last.fm site, and changes will be applied also to your past scrobbles. You have two options:
Off 	 Tracks are matched properly, but if you change your tags after some time, your play-count will be split in two tracks.
On 	 You can play-count the tracks even if tags are changed after some time, but you will have to use Last.fm preferred spelling.

Unattended Syncing
Please note the dialog will only appear in the case of iPods.
When you connect a device that is able to sync with your collections, a pop-up like this will appear.
For unattended syncing to start, you only need to click Yes in the pop-up. will work in the background, so the metadata in your device including ratings, first/last played times, play counts and labels will be synced with other collections configured to participate in the synchronization, and tracks recently played on the device will be scrobbled to Last.fm, if it is enabled. The process will not ask for user interaction unless any conflict is found in the middle.

Remote Collections
Often it is very useful to share your media files across the network, especially if you want to use it on different computers. This can be done in different ways:
Ampache 
DAAP 
Samba 
UPnP

Ampache
is able to play music from an Ampache media server. If you want to install a server, see here for more information.

Ampache Client
Activate the Ampache service using Settings Configure Amarok Plugins. Click on the icon to open the configuration dialog.
Select Add Server:
Configure the service with the data entered on the server:
Now the Ampache service should appear in Media Sources Internet.

Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP)
DAAP is a protocol to share media over a network. It was first used for the iTunes music player, but is used widely now. The current state is that the DAAP-plugin won't work with a recent iTunes, the Firefly media server is known to work.

Client
will show the tracks from the server in the Media Sources Local Music pane if you enable the DAAP Collection in Settings Configure Amarok Configure Plugins Collections. If the collection is not showing up, click the icon to be sure you are not in Merged View.

Samba
Samba is a free implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol which is used to share files and printers in a network. Most modern file managers like and Nautilus support this protocol.

Client
You need to mount the share to use it in . To do this, you need to install the package smbfs. Use the command
sudo mount -t cifs //host/share /mount-point/
to mount the share. After that you can use it like a local folder and add it to your local collection.

Server
The easiest way is to use your file manager. On Debian-based distributions like you can install a extension to manage shares using
sudo apt-get install kdenetwork-filesharing
Open the properties of a folder in and switch to the Share tab.
To share the folder, just check the Share with Samba (Microsoft Windows) field and set the share name under the Name field. Check the Allow Guests checkbox to allow anonymous users access to the folder.
The folder should now be accessible to the network. Please see the Client section for details on how to use it in .

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) / DLNA
UPnP is a set of protocols to share media on the network. It is also supported by a wide range of residential gateways and Network Attached Storage devices. UPnP support is now commonly marketed as DLNA.
has a built-in UPnP media share client so it can play tracks shared on the network. To enable it, use Settings Configure Amarok Plugins Collections and check the box by the UPnP Collection plugin.
When a media share is discovered it will be shown in Local Music.
The UPnP feature depends on KDE's UPnP media server support. As of now (2015) there is no working UPnP kio-slave available.

External Database
2.2 and above support an external MySQL database as a backend.

Install MySQL-Server
First you need to install an MySQL server. On Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu you can use
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
to install it. You will be asked to specify a password for the root-account for the database. The mysql-client package is needed in order to execute some of the commands in this document, but it's not fundamental to the use of .

Configure Database
Connect to the local database using
mysql -u root -p
You will be prompted for the password for MySQL's root user. You will get the

mysql>

prompt.
Create a new user amarokuser with the password amarokpass using the
CREATE USER 'amarokuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'amarokpass';
command. Amarok needs its own database, which is created with
CREATE DATABASE amarokdb;
Give the new user access to the database by entering the
GRANT ALL ON amarokdb.* TO 'amarokuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'amarokpass';
command, where % is a wildcard to allow all hosts to connect to the database. Now use the
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
statement to reload various internal caches used by MySQL. Finally
exit
closes the MySQL prompt.
By default the server can only be accessed by the local host. To change this you need to edit the file /etc/mysql/my.cnf and adjust the address near bind-address to the one your server listens on the network. 0.0.0.0 listens on all interfaces. After that you need to restart the server using
sudo service mysql restart

Configure Client
Open the configuration dialog by clicking Settings Configure Amarok Database. Enable the checkbox and enter the user data.
You need to restart so that the changes take effect.

Migrating from MySQL Embedded to MySQL Server
If you want to maintain the statistics, that you have in the embedded MySQL database from before 2.2, you can do the following:
First, start 2.2+ at least once to give the database a chance to update to the latest schema version.
Next, kill the running MySQL service
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
and start a MySQL daemon from your ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok directory (--defaults-file MUST be the first option!):
/usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=`pwd`/my.cnf --default-storage-engine=MyISAM --datadir=`pwd`/mysqle --socket=`pwd`/sock --skip-grant-tables
The skip-grant-tables means you can use any password or username to connect to it. 'localhost' will not work, the MySQL client will try to use a socket. Using 127.0.0.1 as the host makes it work. Some systems may restrict this access through apparmor or SE. They can be temporarily disabled with
sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor stop
Now, run mysqldump, passing in the -S option to specify the local socket. This will dump your old embedded DB out to a SQL file.
mysqldump -S sock amarok > amarok.mysql
You can then restart your MySQL service and load this SQL file into your MySQL server. You'll have needed to already run the GRANT statement above and create an database (CREATE DATABASE amarok;):
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop mysql -u amarokuser -p amarok < amarok.mysql
You may need to re-scan your collection in after completing this.

Working with Media Devices
Use to play music from media devices such as MTP devices, iPods, and generic USB devices.

Connecting Media Devices
Connect your media device using the USB cable. The device notifier applet in will automatically pop up with a list of all available media devices. Click on the icon to access your device.

Play Music from the Media Device
Or just wait until your device shows up in , which will take anywhere from a few seconds to a minute or more, to scan the device for music tracks. Until then the vfat volume will show 0 tracks.
After the scan, will display all the music tracks available in the Media Device, which you can then move to the Playlist to play them, or copy or move to your Local Collection.

Managing the Media
Menu Item	Description
Add to playlist	Adds all the selected tracks from the media device to the current playlist.
Replace the playlist	Clears the current playlist and adds instead all the selected tracks from the media device.
Configure Device	Opens a dialog box to edit configuration options for the device.
Disconnect Device	Disconnects the device from the computer.
Copy to collection	Copy all the selected tracks to the Local collection or to any other media devices connected.
Move to collection	Move all the selected tracks to the Local collection or to any other media devices connected.
Move to trash	Moves all the selected tracks from the media device to the trash.
Delete tracks	Deletes all the selected tracks from the media device.
Organize Files	Organizes tracks based on the configuration for the device.
Edit track details	Opens a dialog box to edit details of the selected tracks from the media device.

Troubleshooting Media Device support
As of Amarok 2.8, the following devices should work with Amarok:
Generic Media Players connected through the UMS protocol.
iPods/iPhones, depending on their support by the libgpod library. The status depends on the version of this library installed on your system, please refer to the libgpod support listing on their homepage.
limited support for devices using the MTP protocol, the support for new Android devices is currently implemented for the next Amarok version.

Cover Manager
The Cover Manager is a tool to manage the cover art images of your collection. It allows you to change covers easily, fetch all missing covers and browse them. You can find Cover Manager in Tools Cover Manager.
When scanning the local music library, tries to find corresponding covers for albums. At this point, only searches them from the file system, not from the Internet. If none are found in your files, uses a placeholder image like this for the album cover:
If an album is missing a cover or the current one is incorrect, you can fetch one from the Internet with Cover Manager.

Browsing Covers
With Cover Manager, browsing covers is easy. You can view covers for any artist by selecting from list on left, or use the search box to find the right album. On the status bar, you can see how many covers are currently listed and how many albums are missing covers. You can also set the Cover Manager to only show albums with or without covers. By right-clicking on cover art and selecting Display Cover you can view the cover image at the original size.

Fetching Missing Covers
If there are albums with missing covers, you can try to automatically fetch them all from the Internet. Just select Fetch Missing Covers from the top of the window and Cover Manager will try to find covers. If there are many albums missing covers, the process may take some time.

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. automatically tries find the correct album art by searching with the artist name and album name. Usually this 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 the changes will be applied.
You can also use a image from your hard drive as an album cover. If you want to store the image in the Album folder, name 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.
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 item.

Tag Editor
The built-in Tag Editor allows to show and change meta data of music files. To open the editor just right-click on one or more selected songs, albums, or genres, in either your collection or your playlist, click on Edit Track Details and choose the Tags tab.

Edit Tags Manually
Change the proper line to the required value and click Save & Close. Clicking Cancel discards all unsaved changes.

Tags
Tags are metadata such as the track number or the artist of the track contained in the file. A very common kind of tag is the ID3 tag.
Here is a list of tags supported by :
Tag	Description
Title	The title of the track.
Artist	The artist or band of the track.
Composer	The composer of the track.
Album Artist	The artist or band of the album.
Album	The album title.
Disc Number	The disc number of the album; important in a multi-CD album.
Genre	The genre of the track. This can be a custom genre, but usually one of the predefined ones is used.
Beats Per Minute	The tempo of the track.
Track	The number of the track on the album.
Year	The year in which the track or album was published.
Comment	A text comment for the track.

Edit Single Track
In this mode you can change all supported tags of the chosen file.

Edit Several Tracks
Several tracks can be selected by clicking on the artist, album, or genre in the your collection or by selecting several tracks in the playlist using the (non-sequential) or (sequential) key.

All At Once
More general tags can be set for a group of tags at once. It works just like the single-track-mode, but the title and track number tags are locked.

Track By Track
This mode is pretty similar to the single-track-mode, except for the ability to switch between the selected tracks using the Next and Previous buttons. It is activated by clicking on the checkbox Per Track on the bottom of the window.

Get Tags from MusicBrainz
2.8 has the ability to guess tags from the MusicBrainz database. Click the Get Tags from MusicBrainz, wait a moment for the database to be searched for matches, and then Update Tags, or Cancel.
If you have the packages libofa and ffmpeg installed, and is compiled with them, Musicbrainz will be able to use fingerprinting (the MusicDNS service) to search for albums and tracks without good filenames or existing tags.
MusicBrainz Tagger dialog
MusicBrainz Tagger dialog

Guess Tags From Filename
It is also possible to tag tracks using information in the filename. This is a very convenient feature when dealing with lots of files with a consistent naming scheme.
Some tracks need to be edited manually, because special characters like single quotes are omitted in file names. A preview helps to create the correct pattern.

Options
There are also several options to format the result. These are self-explanatory.

Basic
In the basic view you get a drag-and-drop menu to create the pattern in the filename.

Example
Filename: 01-The Beatles-Hey Jude.mp3
Tracknumber: 01
Artist: The Beatles
Title: Hey Jude

Advanced
In the advanced view you can create a pattern using markers in a string.

Example
Filename: 01-The Beatles-Hey Jude.mp3
Tracknumber: 01
Artist: The Beatles
Title: Hey Jude

Transcoding
Transcoding allows you to encode media files to a variety of formats while copying or moving them to a collection (Local Collection, USB Universal Mass Storage Collection and iPod, iPad & iPhone Collection support transcoding as of 2.8). A word of warning: be careful when you use this feature, as you are working with actual files on your hard drive. Have a backup!

Interface
The Transcoding dialog will appear whenever you copy or move tracks to one of the collections that support transcoding. You can also transcode tracks within the Local Collection by using the Organize files functionality.

Transcode Tracks Dialog
If you choose to copy or move files to a supported collection, the following dialog will pop up:
Menu Item	Description
Copy	Selected media files will be copied to your collection without re-encoding.
Encoder list	List of all your installed codecs; choose among them to be able to transcode. If this list is empty, you need to install FFmpeg.
Transcode all tracks	Transcode every selected track to the chosen codec
Transcode only when needed for playability	Only transcode tracks which need to be transcoded to play in the destination system
Transcode only if source and destination formats are different	Transcode only if source and destination file formats are different
Remember this choice for the next time	Save the preference for the current destination collection. This includes the copy/transcode preference and transcoding parameters.
Cancel	Exits the Transcode Tracks dialog.

Custom Encoding
Whether to save space, to make your files readable by a portable music player or a particular software program, can handle it. Choose a codec from the list and a custom setting and click Transcode.
Menu Item	Description
Transcode	Begins encoding with the selected codecs and parameters. In case of the Local Collection the Organize tracks dialog will pop up. More about Organize tracks.
Cancel	Exits the Transcode Tracks dialog.

Saving Transcoding Preferences
As mentioned in the Remember this choice for the next time description, can remember transcoding preference per each of your collections. The preference can be changed any time in the Configure Local Collection Configure Amarok dialog page for the Local Collection and in the configure dialogs of iPod, iPad & iPhone and Universal Mass Storage collections.

Pro Tip: Strip Audio out of Video Files
's transcoding capabilities can be used to extract audio from video files while copying or moving them into a collection. Just select video file(s) in Amarok embedded file browser, right-click and choose Copy to Collection. Standard Transcode Tracks dialog will appear. Choose one of the encoders, hit Transcode and transcoding will begin.

Script Manager
The Script Manager contains the options required to extend the functionality of through custom scripts. It is reached from the Settings menu, Configure Amarok Scripts. Scripts can be installed from downloaded script packages, or from the Manage Scripts button which can fetch and install the latest user-contributed scripts from the Internet.
Please refer to Configuring Amarok -> Scripts for more information.