On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Marcel Hilzinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Samstag, 30. Oktober 2010 18:42:42 schrieb Cody Christensen: >> On Saturday, October 30, 2010 07:54:18 am Lydia Pintscher wrote: >> > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 06:53, Cody Christensen <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> > > Hi everybody. I recently decided that I need to get my music >> > > collection under control but I'm not sure of the best way to do it. >> > > What I am looking for is basically multiple collections. I've >> > > read some stuff on why there is not multiple collection support but >> > > nobody seemed to mention my use case. >> > > I have a lot of music that I don't want in my "main" collection >> > > all of the time. Example... I have many Christmas songs that are from >> > > artists that I don't have any other music by. This fills up my >> > > collection browser with a ton of artists that 10 months of the year I >> > > just have to scroll by and filter though. If I could have a separate >> > > collection just for the Christmas music that I could turn on and off it >> > > would make it much easier to find what I want to listen to. >> > > I also got a bunch of CD's from a family member which I ripped >> > > but most of the time I don't want to listen to that music because their >> > > taste in music differs alot. And there are many movie sound tracks >> > > which clutters up my artist view much like the Christmas songs to. It >> > > would be nice to have that in a separate collection that I could enable >> > > or disable as desired. >> > > >> > > The best Idea that I have would be to make some kind of sym link >> > > or maybe faux-partition that I could mount and un-mount as desired in >> > > order to simulate the removable collections. >> > > >> > > Any Ideas? >> > >> > Hi Cody, >> > >> > I don't know if that will help you but I always hide my christmas >> > collection from Amarok by renaming the directory it is in from >> > /christmas to /.christmas. This way the collection scanner doesn't see >> > it. > > This is a nice way, but I'm sure, I would forget about the .christmas-Folder > after 11 month :-) > > I had a similar idea some month ago: Hide Tracks > > I have a lot of albums, where there is one track, which I do definively not > like. But rather than deleting or moving the file away, I would just like to > ban it from beeing played in Amarok. So there could be a feature like banned > tracks and banned albums with a corresponding menü Entry "Show banned items". > > Many image viewers have this feature also implemented, I think it's quite > useful.
Hey Marcel, did Anika send greetings to you? :) -- Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at KO GmbH Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe http://amarok.kde.org - http://fsfe.org - http://kogmbh.com _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
