How to enable Moodbar in Amarok Music Player

Amarok is a sound system-independent audio-player for *nix systems. Its interface uses a powerful “browser” metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection.

Moodbar in amarok it shows you the “mood” of a track, which you can then use to figure out when something interesting happens in the song.

Preparing your system

You need to install all the compilers using the following command

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Now you need to install the libraries and required program

sudo apt-get install fftw3-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer-editor gstreamer-tools gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

Install Moodbar in Ubuntu

First download moodbar using the following command

wget http://pwsp.net/~qbob/moodbar-0.1.2.tar.gz

Now you have moodbar-0.1.2.tar.gz file you need to extract using the following command

tar -xzvf moodbar-0.1.2.tar.gz

Now you need to go in to the directory and compile

cd moodbar-0.1.2

./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix gstreamer-0.10`

make

sudo make install

This will complete the installation.

Now you can open Amarok and go to “Settings -> Configure Amarok” and from “General“, select “Use moods“. There are three different colour moods to choose from.

Categories: Ubuntu