KDE's Amarok music player allows you to play various audio formats, create playlists, listen to streaming audio broadcasts of radio stations on the Internet and subscribe to podcasts. The file types supported depend on the engine used for Amarok.
To start Amarok, press Alt+F2 and enter amarok.
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Amarok's main window shows a sidebar on the left providing different views: your music collection, some addresses to listen to podcasts or streams from the Internet, your playlists and a file 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 files are properly tagged (containing at least information about the artist and album), you can make use of several nice Amarok features. To automatically retrieve the album cover images from Amazon, select + and click . 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 button in the middle area to make Amarok search for the appropriate Wikipedia article.
To configure the use of another engine (or various other Amarok features), select +.