How to enable Moodbar in Amarok music player

First,install the compiler by this command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

And install the libraries and required programs

sudo apt-get install fftw3-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer-tools gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-good

Download and extract moodbar :

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

Now,go into the directory and compile:

cd moodbar-0.1.2
./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix gstreamer-0.10`
make
sudo make install

Launch Amarok and go to “Settings -> Configure Amarok” and from “General“, select “Use moods“. There are three different colour moods to choose from.

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