The Amarok Window
When you open , this is what you will see, once has fully loaded:
Default startup window
Default startup window

Window Layout
is organized in four main areas, the toolbar and three panes:
	The Main Toolbar 
	The Slim Toolbar 
	The Media Sources pane 
	The Context pane 
	The Playlist pane 

Toolbar

Introduction
The Toolbar is used to manage the currently playing song. You can switch between the main and slim Toolbar using the View menu in the Menubar. The Menubar can optionally be hidden; use M to hide or re-display.
The Toolbar can be undocked and moved anywhere on your screen, and even used without the rest of the window displayed. To undock the Toolbar you should first make sure that the View Lock Layout menu item is unselected. Now you can grab the toolbar at its left edge and drag it anywhere. To get it back just drag it into its old position while the layout is still unlocked.

Main Toolbar
This is the default Toolbar. It has a / button on the left and displays the song title, album and artist in the center-top.
The previous and next track are shown on either side of the song title. Clicking one of them will make skip to that track.
A Progressbar with the already played time on the left and remaining time on the right shows the current position in the song. If you have Moodbars enabled, and .mood files for your tracks, this is where they will be displayed. More about the Moodbar later.
By using the slightly transparent and buttons next to the text you can add the current song to your loved tracks on last.fm or add a position marker.
On the right is the volume-control button. A blue circle around the button shows the current volume. The volume is 0 at the bottom and increases clockwise. Change volume by clicking on the volume circle or by using the scroll wheel while the mouse hovers the button. The sound can also be completely muted by clicking on the speaker in the center.

Slim Toolbar
The Slim Toolbar has the same functionality as the Main Toolbar, but is more compact. Additionally the Slim Toolbar has a button to stop playing so the current song will be restarted when you press again. All buttons concerning the current track are on the left and only the volume control on the right side. Here the volume is controlled by clicking on the button and dragging the slider or using the scroll wheel while the mouse is hovering the button.

The Media Sources pane
The Media Sources pane on the left by default is where you access your local collection as well as other services: Local Music on top, which is the primary interface to your local collection and connected media such as mp3 players and CDs.
There is a section for all Internet Services that you have enabled. Here, you can browse listings of radio stations and podcasts; listen and/or subscribe to them, interact with your last.fm account, purchase music from online stores such as our new Amazon mp3 store, Magnatune and download independent artists' music from Jamendo and more.
The Playlists section allows you to create and manage Dynamic Playlists, access your Saved Playlists as well as the Automatic Playlist Generator.
The Files section displays an integrated file browser and the Podcasts section offers you access to your podcast subscriptions.

Navigation Menu
The Navigation menu consists of the Filter bar, Bookmark button and Breadcrumbs navigation bar.

The Filter Bar
The Filter Bar filters the content according to the text in the box.

Bookmarks
To access this feature, click on the icon above the Filter bar.
Menu Item	Description
Bookmark Media Sources View	Adds the current Media Sources view configuration to the bookmark list.
Copy Current View Bookmark to Clipboard	Copies bookmark to the system clipboard.
Bookmark Manager	Displays a list of all available bookmarks in a new window, with options to edit them.
Bookmark List	Lists all your bookmarks for faster selection.

Local Music
Displays the music from your default collection folder, sorted as specified. Both the regular (non-merged) view and Merged view of the same collection are shown, with the same sorting. Click the icon to toggle between views.
Regular non-merged view Regular non-merged view	Merged view Merged view
Click the icon to change the sorting criteria, using the following menu:
Menu Item	Description
Artist/Album	Shows the collection sorted by artists and album names. If two entries have the same artist they will be sorted by album.
Album/Artist	Shows the collection sorted by album and artist names.
Genre/Artist	Shows the collection sorted by genre and artist. If two entries have the same genre they will be sorted by artist.
Genre/Artist/Album	Shows the collection sorted by genre, artist and album. If two entries have the same artist they will be sorted by album.
Levels	Designate the window cascade order of your elements.
Show Years	Check if you want years to be displayed.
Show Track Numbers	Check if you want track numbers to be displayed.
Show Cover Art	Check if you want cover art to be displayed.

Internet
Shows your internet collection, added and configured in Settings Configure Amarok... Plugins. More about configuring Internet Services. There are some scripts which add Internet Services; see Scripts for more information.
Menu Item	Description
Cool Streams	Lists quality radio streams.
Jamendo	Connects with Jamendo, a growing free music database.
Last.fm	Connects with Last.fm; embedding the site experience in .
Librivox.org	Connects with Librivox, an extensive collection of free audio books.
Magnatune.com	Connects with Magnatune, a great online music store.
MP3 Music Store	Connects with Amazon MP3 Store, an online music store.
Podcast Directory	Shows a large list of podcasts. If you choose to subscribe, the podcast menu will be automatically updated.

Playlist
Media Sources Playlists menu:
Menu Item	Description
Dynamic Playlists	Dynamically updating parameter-based playlist; more on this here.
Saved Playlists	Saved and imported playlists; more on this here.
Automated Playlist Generator	Creates playlists by specific criteria; more on this here.

Files
The file browser helps you add music to your collection, or simply play tracks from your hard drive.
Navigate through your files using the icon buttons: (previous), (next), (up), (home), or (places), very similar to a web browser menu; or click on anywhere in the breadcrumbs to go directly to that level.
If you would rather search or filter for something rather than navigating to it, use the filter field to find the desired content. Partially type the name of the file and it will be displayed as in this example.

Podcasts
Lists your subscribed podcasts; from here you can listen, organize, add, import or unsubscribe podcasts.
Menu Item	Description
Add Podcast	Add a podcast URL: RSS 1.0/2.0 or Atom feed.
	Add a folder to the podcast navigation menu.
Visible Sources	Selects what category of podcasts you can view.
Merged View	Displays the podcasts in a merged or unmerged view.
	Checks all podcasts for updates and downloads any available.
	Imports an OPML file from your hard drive.

The Context pane
The Context pane is a panel to which you can add various applets which offer information and media on the current music. A connection to the Internet is required for the most useful use of these little applications, which will fetch lyrics, information, photos, and even guitar or bass tabs, depending on which applets you choose to display.

Using the Context pane
Context pane when not playing
Context pane when not playing
Pictured is the Context pane when no track is playing. If it is hidden, use View Context to display it. The pane is divided in two parts:
The applet panel itself, where you can interact with some of the applets, such as editing lyrics or changing settings.
The lower portion of the panel, where you can expand and collapse applets and manipulate them in various ways once you click the Configure Applets icon .

Configuring Applets
Once you click in the lower portion of the Context pane changes slightly; each applet tab gets an icon that you can click to remove it, and a list of applets appear. To add new applet, simply click on the applet, and it will appear in the pane, ready to be used. To change the applet display order, click the tabs and drag them around the bar.

Applets
There are several applets available to dock in your Context pane; below is a description of each.
Applet	Icon	Description
Current Track		Information about the current track. You may rate it by clicking on the stars, add a position marker, or edit track metadata. When not playing, the applet displays collection information and Recently Played Tracks, which allows you to view the tracks and add them to the playlist.
Similar Artists		Fetches artists similar to the currently playing one, with a short description and options to find them in your collection, or on Last.fm, and add to your current playlist.
Upcoming Events		Displays upcoming events that involve the current artist or group. You can set a venue locale to be watched by entering the applet settings and narrowing it down under the Favorites section.
Wikipedia		Wikipedia page for the track or artist. Also browse other Wikipedia links, and use the back button to go back to the starting page.
Labels		View, add and edit Labels for the current song. To add a Label just type it in the text box and press . Suggested Labels are user-contributed tags from Last.fm.
Tabs		Fetches and displays guitar and bass tabs (if available). Not editable.
Lyrics		Displays the lyrics of the song that is currently playing. Add or change lyrics scripts in the Script Manager.
Albums		View albums from the current artist or band that are available in your local Collection.
Photos		This applet queries Flickr.com for pictures of the band you're listening to. Open the settings to add more keywords to your query (⪚: live in tokyo).>
Analyzer		This is a new applet in version 2.8. It provides basic audio visualizations. A right click on it allows to configure the applet settings.
Info		Information about the current media source. Allows you to navigate through internet services such as Librivox.org.

The Playlist pane
offers excellent playlist management for all of your songs and other audio files. Here you see a short playlist, sorted by album.
Playlist pane
Playlist pane

Basic Playlist Manipulation
Playlist Pop Up Dropper menu
Playlist Pop Up Dropper menu
Adding music to your playlist is a simple drag-and-drop, right-click or double-click operation.
Two playlist-related options will be shown in the Context pane in the center (the Pop-Up Dropper, or PUD) when performing a drag-and-drop operation to add music to your current playlist. You can either use Add to Playlist, which will append the songs you have selected, or Replace Playlist, which will replace all the contents of the playlist with your selection.
Alternatively, dragging-and-dropping your selection into a position in the Playlist pane also works.
Right-clicking on a track, album, or selected group will bring up a context menu from which you can Add to Playlist, or Replace Playlist.
Double-clicking a selection or pressing while a track is selected in the Media Sources pane will perform the same as Add to Playlist.
Middle-clicking an item will append it to the playlist and begin playing from the start of the playlist.
If you tell the file browser to open a supported multimedia file, will append the selected file to the current playlist. Some multimedia files contain playlists themselves or may have playlist files associated by name (⪚ wav with cue). If detects such an association, it may add several items to the playlist.

Context menu
Right-clicking on any song or album in the playlist will bring up the Playlist context menu.

Queue/Dequeue Track
Queuing a track will temporarily modify the play order without modifying the actual playlist order by setting the user-selected track as the next track.
As many tracks as required can be queued, and the order of queuing is indicated by a green circle with the determined order. Choose the tracks by Click for a block of tracks, or Click for individual tracks. The order in which the tracks are selected is the determined order.
Tracks can be dequeued by opening the context menu and selecting the Dequeue Track option.
More about the Queue Manager.

Stop Playing After This Track
Choosing this option allows a track to finish, after which will stop playing . It will be indicated by the stop icon in place of the track number. Selecting this option on a track already marked will unmark it. Only one track in the playlist may be so marked.

Remove From Playlist
This removes the selected track from the current playlist.

Add Position Marker
Adding a position marker is only available for the currently playing track. This will add a bookmark in the seek bar at the top of the interface.

Show in Media Sources
This displays the track selected in the Media Sources pane, which is on the left by default.

Album
Playlist album menu
Playlist album menu
These are per-album options which will affect the entire album the track belongs to, rather than the track itself. The options are largely the same as the album menu in the Media Sources pane.

Edit Track Details
This option brings up the Edit Track Details dialog for the selected tracks.

Searching the Playlist
Playlist searching options
Playlist searching options
offers powerful searching capabilities for playlists. Simply enter your query for a song into the text box labelled Search playlist and it will match your keywords up against the match criteria you specify in the options menu — for instance, you can choose to search only by Albums and not Artists, or choose to match both of them.
Playlist search bar
Playlist search bar
Pressing the icon moves the selection to the previous search result, and moves to the next result, all without losing focus on the search input box.
The icon in the search field will clear your query.
Enabling Show only matches from the menu will cause your playlist to display only the tracks matching the query.
More about Playlist filtering here.

Sorting Levels and Bookmarking
Playlist sorting and bookmarking toolbar
Playlist sorting and bookmarking toolbar

Sorting Levels
Menu for adding a sorting level
Menu for adding a sorting level
's robust sorting abilities offer the ability to sort not only by one field of a track, but by many combined in a series of levels.
There are many different modes by which a sorting level can act. For instance, songs can be sorted by their Genre and then their Album.
A sorting level can be added by clicking the right-pointing triangle, which will bring up the menu for adding another sorting level.
Clicking the small triangle on the right of the sorting level's name will cause items in the playlist to switch between ascending and descending order, which is indicated by the direction in which the triangle is pointing — up or down, respectively.
To remove a sorting level, click the name of the sorting level that precedes the one you wish to remove. Multiple sorting levels can be removed — provided that they are all lower in the hierarchy — by clicking on the ancestor of all of them. If you wish to clear all sorting levels, you can click the playlist icon to the left of the first right-pointing arrow.

Bookmarking
Bookmarking menu
Bookmarking menu
The bookmarking menu provides options to save your current playlist layout. Clicking Bookmark Playlist Setup will add your playlist layout to the layout bookmarks, which can be viewed in Bookmark Manager.
Copy Current View Bookmark to Clipboard copies an playlist layout URL to the clipboard, which can be used for backing up your playlist layout.

Playlist Functions
Playlist bottom bar
Playlist bottom bar
The bottom bar of the Playlist pane provides various additional options for manipulation of your playlist.
Icon	Action
	Empty playlist of all playlists, albums and tracks.
	Save your playlist. Right-click to rename it, default is the date as a name. Left-click to bring up the Save Playlist menu, to save your playlist file onto the hard drive instead of the database.
	Undo your last edit to playlist.
	Redo your last undo to playlist.
	Scrolls playlist to the track which is currently playing and highlights it — useful for a large playlist.
	Set the play mode: repeat tracks, random order, prefer rarely played,
	Edit the playlist queue; tracks played first before the playlist resumes. More about the Queue Manager.

Save Playlist menu
Save playlist menu
Save playlist menu
Left-click to bring up the Save Playlist menu, to save your playlist file onto the hard drive instead of the database.

Track Progression
Track progression menu
Track progression menu
The Track Progression menu enables you to modify the order in which progresses through the tracks in your playlist.
The top half of the menu specifies repeat options — whether songs should be repeated by track, by album or by playlist; whereas the bottom half specifies the order in which the tracks play in — in random order or by favor. Only one type of progression may be selected, ⪚ you cannot select both random track and repeat playlist.

Favor
Playlist favor menu
Playlist favor menu
Favor is an innovative method to determine the next track to be played when using the random selection mode. The next track to be played can be determined depending on their score (a measure of how often they are played), their user-given rating, or if they have not been recently played.