Amarok's main window shows a sidebar on the left providing dierent views: your
local music collection, some addresses to listen to podcasts or streams from the In-
ternet, your playlists and a le browser. The middle part, the context browser, displays
information about the current track, the Wikipedia page of the artist and the song's
lyrics by default. The right part of the window shows the current playlist. To play
music, just drag and drop items from any of the sidebar browsers to the playlist area.
Double-click an item in the playlist to start playback.
If your music les are properly tagged (containing at least information about the
artist and album), you can make use of several nice Amarok features. To automati-
cally retrieve the album cover images from Amazon, select Tools > Cover Manager
and click Fetch Missing Covers. The next time you play a track from this album, the
cover is displayed in the context browser and on the on-screen display. To learn
more about the artist, click on the Wikipedia button in the middle area to make
Amarok search for the appropriate Wikipedia article.
To congure the use of another engine (or various other Amarok features), select
Settings > Congure Amarok.
2.18 Logging Out
Log out (and leave the system running), restart or shut down the computer.
2.18.1 Logging Out or Switching Users
Click the Main Menu button on your panel and select Leave > Logout. This ends your
session but leaves the system running. To start a parallel session as a dierent user,
select Leave > Switch User instead.
2.18.2 Restarting or Shutting Down the Computer
Click Leave, then select one of the following options:
Sleep
Only available if your computer provides power management functionality.
Pauses your computer without logging you out. All your data and the session data
is saved to RAM.
Hibernate
Only available if your computer provides power management functionality.
Pauses your computer without logging you out. All your data and the session data
is saved to disk before the system is laid to rest. It is thus protected against data
loss should you lose power in the meantime.
Restart
Restarts your computer.
Shutdown
Logs you out of the current session, then turns o the computer.
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