How To: Enable Moodbar in Amarok

[Ashex]

This guide is not required for hardy, sudo apt-get install moodbar is all that is needed

For the record, I did not write this tutorial, I found it on a broken website here.


This requires the installing of compilers and quite a number of libraries, but that’s what you get for compiling from source. I don’t know of any packages lying around for it sorry. And I don’t have the time to make one. You may need to add extra repositories for some steps. All of this is done by the command line but you can use a GUI. CMD line shows that you’re not too dependant on GUIs tho and it also is dead useful.

Right, first things first, we have to make sure the necessary compilers are installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Then we have to install the libraries which are needed for the installation:

sudo apt-get install fftw3-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-plugins-base

Those are the libraries, now for the programs used by moodbar to anylase sound files:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer-tools

You might want to install “gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly” too. Now we actually install moodbar, first we need to download the source tarball for it, as of writing this the lastest tar is 0.1.2 but there may be another later version here. But anyway we’ll take that one:

wget http://pwsp.net/~qbob/moodbar-0.1.2.tar.gz

Now untar:

tar -xvvzf moodbar-0.1.2.tar.gz

Move into the new directory and compile, it needs to be installed into the same prefix as GStreamer (which should be /usr in Kubuntu).

cd moodbar-0.1.2 && ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix gstreamer-0.10`

If there are no errors, it can be made and installed normally:

make && sudo make install

If that went smoothly, we can now open Amarok and go to “Settings -> Configure Amarok” and from “General“, select “Use moods“. There are three different colour moods to choose from I go with “Happy as a Rainbow”, as it’s the prettiest and most appealing.

Note: If you are having trouble with Amarok generating moods, install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

[corrin]

Awesome job Ashex,

Worked perfectly first time. The only difference I noticed to your tutorial is that gstreamer is now at 0.10 rather than 0.8, but the commands all remain the same.

[claypole]

Works a treat, thanks!

[wenchmagnet]

Thanks!

Perfect and to the point... its howtos like these that have made switching to Ubuntu such a breeze... keep them coming.

[manishk]

Found this deb for Feisty...works great!!

http://cl.naist.jp/~eric-n/ubuntu-nl...s/feisty/test/

[sugarland2k]

Tried this with Kubuntu 7.04 and Amarok 1.4.6 (KDE 3.5.7) and the coding works prefect! Wow!

Ubuntu / Kubuntu is the perfect O/S. Friends do not let friends run Vista !

Thanks so much, love the music on last.fm
Billy in Sugar Land

[briealeida]

Using Feisty, I only had an issue with this command:
cd moodbar-0.1.2 && ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix gstreamer-0.10`


Instead I just did these:
cd moodbar-0.1.2
./configure


And now my moods are queued and calculating!

[Ashex]

Hey Guys, just wanted to let you know I have updated the guide for gutsy!

[eliasz]

THanks very much, very helpful

[money2themax]

great it worked

EDIT: i can't get it to display <-- got that fixed didn't restart

EDIT II: is there a prog that will make mood files for all my music with out me playing them?