JuK
Encyclopedia
JuK is a free software
audio player
by KDE
, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3
, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC
audio files.
JuK was started by Scott Wheeler in 2000, and was originally called QTagger – however, it was not until 2002 that the application was moved into KDE CVS
, where it has grown into a mature audio application. It was first officially part of KDE in KDE 3.2.
Free software
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audio player
Audio player (software)
An audio player is a kind of media player for playing back digital audio, including optical discs such as CDs, SACDs, DVD-Audio, HDCD, audio files and streaming audio....
by KDE
KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC
FLAC
FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost...
audio files.
JuK was started by Scott Wheeler in 2000, and was originally called QTagger – however, it was not until 2002 that the application was moved into KDE CVS
Concurrent Versions System
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, where it has grown into a mature audio application. It was first officially part of KDE in KDE 3.2.
Features of JuK
Though an able music player, JuK is primarily an audio jukebox application, with a strong focus on management of music. The following features reflect this:- Collection list and multiple user defined playlists.
- Ability to scan directories to automatically import playlists (.m3uM3UM3U is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is supported by many applications.An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files. Each line carries one specification...
files) and music files on start up. - Dynamic Search Playlists that are automatically updated as fields in the collection change.
- A Tree View mode where playlists are automatically generated for sets of albums, artists and genres.
- Playlist history to indicate which files have been played and when.
- Inline search for filtering the list of visible items.
- The ability to guess tag information from the file name or using MusicBrainzMusicBrainzMusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB...
online lookup. - File renamer that can rename files based on the tag content.
- ID3v1, ID3v2 and Ogg Vorbis tag reading and editing support (via TagLib).