In Norse mythology, Noatun ("enclosure of ships") was the sea-side abode of Niord. Norse mythology, Viking mythology or Scandinavian mythology refer to the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ... Njord (Old Norse Njǫrðr) is one of the Vanir and the god of seamanship and sailing in Norse mythology. ...

Noatun is also one of two main media players of the K Desktop Environment, a popular desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems. It supports various formats, including Ogg Vorbis and Wav. KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltechs Qt toolkit. ... In graphical computing, a desktop environment (DE) offers a complete graphical user interface (GUI) solution to operate a computer. ... A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a UNIX system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ... This page is about the audio compression codec. ... Waveform quite literally means the shape and form of a signal, such as a wave moving across the surface of water, or the vibration of a plucked string. ...

The Noatun player is fully skinnable (supporting classic Winamp, XMMS and KJöfol skins among others), and can be expanded using plugins, which add functionality such as visualizations. Winamp is a skinnable, multi-format, freeware audio player made by Nullsoft, part of Time Warner. ... XMMSs default appearance The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. ... A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ... Visualization can refer to: Graphic Visualization as in any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate any message. ...

It has recently come under criticism for its relatively slow development and redundancy with other KDE players such as JuK and amaroK. JuK is an audio player for KDE, part of the kdemultimedia package. ... The word amarok refers to several different things: Amarok means wolf in the Inuit language. ...

See also

• Comparison of media players

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of media player programs. ...

External links

• noatun.kde.org