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Hello,<BR>
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What I'm missing in amaroK (or haven't discovered..) is the ability to rate albums. I don't think you can do that in itunes either, but that is much much more suiting for me than to rate specific tracks.<BR>
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In general i would like to see a more album-oriented design of the program. There's a lot of people that don't really listen to songs but albums, as you used to do before iTunes and MTV came to the world.<BR>
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There's been quite a few features coming into amaroK with this in mind which I really, really love.<BR>
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One thing I've had in mind regarding this is to have the ability to collapse and expand specific albums in the playlist. The playlist would look just like it does today, but a with small button next to each album which would collapse the whole album, and the songs would disappear from the playlist with just the artist and the album title showing in bold, and then a button to expand it. When it is collapsed you could be able to rate the album and queue it, just as you would be able to rate and queue it in the collection browser. <BR>
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This could also make scrolling through the playlist a lot quicker and less power taking if you have a large playlist. You could also be able to choose collapse and expand all albums in the playlist, or all albums from a specific artist, either through the playlist itself or the collection browser.<BR>
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I know it would be kind of like the new collection browser, but a little bit different and I think it could be very useful.<BR>
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It would also be useful if you could group the albums/songs by rating in the collection browser.<BR>
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However, even if you wouldn't think my ingenious ideas (at least to me =)) is any good, I'd like to say thanks for a absolutely wonderful software. When I was new to linux amaroK was the only thing that kept me wanting to fight against all the problems you encounter as a noob to linux. I would most definitively have given up if it wasn't for amaroK!<BR>
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Best regards,
Joakim Kingström
<A HREF="mailto:joakim.kingstrom@gmail.com">joakim.kingstrom@gmail.com</A>
+31 (0)6 28 71 90 23
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