Young hickory is a plugin for the KDE System Tray, the area near the clock, by default.

right mouse button clicking on the icon will show a small menu, and left mouse button clicking will toggle the visibility of your Noatun user-interface windows. Note that playlists, for example, are not considered user-interfaces.

This plugin will place your playlist in a nice HTML table. Its preferences page will allow you to set colors, background image, and enable the Hover mode, for changing colors when the cursor is over a link.

After setting options, the Actions menu's Export Playlist... will open a file dialog for you to select where to save the output.

The Noatun K-Jöfol skin loader is a reimplementation of a Windows® program under the same name.

Noatun's implementation has a few limitations, unfortunately. For instance the skins must be uncompressed on disk in order to load them.

To install a skin (in the Windows® ZIP format) you can use the skin-installer that can be found in the preferences-dialog of Noatun.

Because some skins are not packaged correctly and the skin-installer can not guess everything you can still follow these commands if installation of a certain skin failed:

% cd $KDEHOME/share/apps/noatun
% mkdir kjskins (if needed)
% cd kjskins
% mkdir new_skin ; cd new_skin
% unzip /path/to/new_skin.zip

You can also make your own skins with the tutorial at http://www.angelfire.com/mo/nequiem/tutorial.html.

The Split Playlist had a simple, classic-style design. Double clicking on an entry will play it (as will selecting it and pressing Enter). You can drag files and URLs in as well.

As of KDE 3.0, the Split Playlist (SPL) stores its data in an XML™ format, but will automatically import the m3u list if the XML™ file does not exist. This means that you can write to the m3u file, and delete the XML™ file, to automatically generate playlists.

The name Split Playlist is a bit of a misnomer, as the list is not actually split. It results from the original design (back in the early Noatun days) actually having it split.

If you're actually using the Winamp™ skin, it should seem familiar to you. Clicking on the timer will toggle it between count-down and count-up mode. Selecting the Scope region under it will enable and disable the scope. You can also double click on the titlebar to toggle Windowshade mode. Right clicking (or clicking on the top-left icon will show the standard Noatun toolbar.

You can install new skins by, in $KDEHOME/share/apps/noatun/skins/winamp, creating a directory for them, and then unzipping the skin in there. Winamp™ skin files with the extension .wsz can be treated as normal zip files. You may have to rename them first, however, to be able to unzip them.

Metatag is a plugin that loads information about a file through the use of KFile, the same mechanism that provides Konqueror with those tooltips when you hover a mouse over files. Aside from loading the information, it supports editing it via the Actions' menu subitem Tag Editing. It supports editing of ID3 tags, as well as OggVorbis tags. It also reads the bitrate from files.

Carsten Pfeiffer decided to break with the long lived Noatun tradition of naming a plugin in the most innacurate way possible, as proven by both Milk-Chocolate, Young Hickory, and countless others. What's the value in just converting an S to a Z? Sounds like something American-English speakers would do!

However, just because the name is unoriginal doesn't mean this is any less of a plugin. Indeed, this one lets you assign keystrokes to some Noatun actions. The real beauty is that these keystrokes work from anywhere, not just from Noatun. So this may finally make those “Multimedia Keyboards” worthwhile.

If you have a remote control for your computer (such as those found on television cards with Brooktree® tuners), and your infrared remote control is supported by LIRC, this should work. Like Keyz, the name is unexciting, but the plugin allows you to assign actions to button presses.

To assign an action to a keypress, load the plugin, go to the Infrared Control page in the Noatun configuration window. Select the keypress in the list, and then choose the action to perform with the combo box below. If, in an action like Volume control, you want the action to be performed repeatedly, check the box and select the interval between actions.

If you have a TV card, a convenient trick is to assign the Mute button to Pause, thereby allowing you to mute your TV display application while unpausing Noatun, and vice-versa, particularly useful in the case of commercials.