Much of where work has been invested in Amarok 2 is the Web services integration. Now Amarok can connect to various Web services and access the music directly, greatly expanding the potential number of songs at your fingertips. Thanks to the powerful API, adding additional services can be done with very little effort.
Scrobble and listen to any last.fm radio stream with fully featured last.fm integration.
Buy tracks from the integrated Magnatune store, and help support the music label that Is Not Evil.
Let The Echo Nest recommend songs similar to ones you are already playing.
Connect remotely to an Ampache music server and browse, search, playback media files.
Download and Upload to your MP3tunes Locker in Amarok. Never leave your music at home again!
Enjoy Jamendo's rich database of independent artists.
Find, subscribe, and download audio and video podcasts from all over the ultimate podcast directory.
Listen to streaming audio books straight from the Librivox catalog.
Enhance your Amarok experience with community developed scripts.
Create playlists that automatically update based on complex, but easy to use, constraints. e.g., tracks from around the year 1967
Customize the supplemental information related to your music with the Plasma powered Context View.
Simplify drag and drop actions with the revolutionary PopUp Dropper menu system.
Enjoy Amarok in your native language, with over 45 community contributed translations.
Thanks to Qt4 and KDE4 technologies you can run Amarok on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Organizing your music collection has never been easier with Amarok's powerful tagging, renaming, and sorting abilities.
Import your iTunes or old Amarok 1.4 database and keep your playcounts, statistics, and scores.
Integrate other web services into Amarok with community developed services. Here are just a few: Greek Radio Streams, and NPR.
Mark positions in tracks to come back and listen to later. Automatic bookmarking will ensure you can pick up where you left off in that podcast or audio book
Move your music files around or rename them and don't fear! Amarok will keep track of the files. Your statistics and playlists are safe. As of Amarok 2.2 file tracking can use Musicbrainz identifiers.
Play your Audio CDs in Amarok, and use the Copy to Collection feature to easily rip them to your local collection.