Amarok tries to be a little different, providing a simple drag and drop interface that really makes playlist handling easy.

Features include:

• rapid playlist creation, with drag and drop from a directory view

• context information (lyrics, artist information, similiar tracks/artists)

• nice playlist browser for your existing playlists (PLS or M3U formats)

• collection-indexing support, for smart browsing and playlist creation

• inline ID3 tag editing, capable of retrieving tags via MusicBrainz

• album cover support: automatically displays album covers from the filesystem, or downloaded on the fly

• miscellaneous audio effects, including crossfading

• easy bindable global shortcuts, rich DCOP interface

• On-Screen Display (OSD), fully configurable

• iPod and iRiver support

Support for XMMS and libvisual visualization plugins can also be included.