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<sect1 id="playing-music">
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<author>&Lauri.Watts;</author>
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<title>Playing Music</title>
<indexterm><primary>Music</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Sound</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Audio</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>&arts;</primary></indexterm>

<para>Intro to &arts;</para>

<para>Performance tuning, sharing devices</para>

<sect2 id="music-media-players">
<title>Music Players</title>

<para>There are several &tde; music players with somewhat overlapping
feature sets, however, each is quite different in style.</para>

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&noatun;
<indexterm><primary>&noatun;</primary></indexterm>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Noatun is the default &tde; music player.  It features a highly
configurable interface, including several styles of playlist manager, and
many plugins to provide different &GUI;s, visualizations, and other
features.</para>
<para>&noatun; is part of the tdemultimedia package.</para>

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&juk;
<indexterm><primary>&juk;</primary></indexterm></term>
<listitem>
<para>&juk; is a media manager, playlist manager, and metadata tagger.  It is a
highly efficient way to manage all your music files, make and maintain
playlists, and maintain the metadata tags in your music.</para>
<para>It is equally useful as your primary music player, or managing
playlists and files for use in another application.</para>
<para>&juk; is part of the tdemultimedia package.</para>

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<imageobject><imagedata fileref="juk.png" format="PNG"/>
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&kaboodle;
<indexterm><primary>&kaboodle;</primary></indexterm></term>
<listitem>
<para>&kaboodle; is a one shot player.  That means, it will run, play a file,
and stop.  &kaboodle; is useful for instance if you want to quickly listen
to a single file without interupting your current playlist from another
media player.</para>
<para>&kaboodle; is part of the tdemultimedia package.</para>

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<imageobject><imagedata fileref="kaboodle.png" format="PNG"/>
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<application>amaroK</application></term>
<listitem>
<para><application>amaroK</application> is a popular third party application. You should be able to
find packages from your normal distribution source.</para>

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<para>Most of the &tde; based movie players such as
<application>Kaffeine</application> and <application>kmplayer</application>
also make useful music players.</para>

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