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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 the mature audio application we know today.

1 Features of JuK

Though an extremely able music player, JuK is primarily an audio jukebox application, with a strong focus on management of your music. The following features reflect this;

• Collection list and multiple user defined playlists.
• Ability to scan directories to automatically import playlists (.m3u 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 MusicBrainz online lookup.
• File renamer that can rename files based on the tag content.
• aRts or optional GStreamer audio backends.
• ID3v1, ID3v2 and Ogg Vorbis tag reading and editing support (via TagLib).

2 External Links

• Interview with Scott Wheeler, original creator of JuK