2.4. Listen to Your Music and View your Photos

2.4.1. Listening to Music

You can listen to all your music with Amarok, a complete music player supporting audio CDs, multiple digital music file formats (mp3, ogg, wav, etc), album covers, lyrics, etc. We present its interface and main features here, please refer to the Amarok Home Page for more information.

Launch Amarok by choosing Sound & VideoAmarok Audio Player from the main menu. Click on Files and navigate to the folders containing your music files.

Figure 2.5. Amarok Rocking The House!

Amarok Rocking The House!

Drag the songs and drop them on the Playlist to add them to it. Double click on an album in the Browser adds it to the Playlist and starts playback immediately. Use the familiar Play Controls to control playback of the songs in the playlist.

To play an audio CD, insert the CD in the drive, then choose AmarokPlay Audio CD with Amarok from the menu: the Playlist is automatically populated and playback starts immediately.

2.4.2. Viewing Photos

You can view all your digital photos with ShowFoto, a full-featured image viewer and editor (part of DigiKam) supporting many image formats and also RAW formats from high-end digital cameras. Here, we present its interface and some features. Please refer to the DigiKam Home Page for more information.

Launch ShowFoto by choosing GraphicsshowFoto Photo Viewer and Editor from the main menu. Choose FileOpen folder from the menu and select the folder containing the photos you want to view, a strip with the photos is shown on the left, the currently selected photo in the center, and metadata about the photo (EXIF information for example) on the right (see Figure 2.6, “Browsing a Photo Album”).

Figure 2.6. Browsing a Photo Album

Browsing a Photo Album

Click on or press the F9 key to start a fullscreen slideshow with all the pictures in the currently opened folder.