Support for external locations

[Jeff Mitchell]

Gary Steinert wrote:
> I have seen requests around for quite a while asking for the ability to 
> include an external location as part of the collection, removing/hiding the 
> tracks in the collection browser when the location isn't present.
> 
> I believe I have a couple of ideas how this could be done and would like to 
> take it up as a mini-project for post 2.0. I'm just wondering how well a 
> feature like this would be received.
> 
> My plan at the moment is to have it to require no user input as such, the 
> removal of files will be done automatically based on whether the device is 
> present. The records will remain in the database so that ratings and the like 
> will not be sacrificed, more than likely with a way for the user to remove 
> them (on a per-device basis). This should stop the database getting bloated 
> with redundant records.
> 
> Just so you know I will keep on with the bugfixing =P I'm just looking for a 
> project to do when there's nothing else going!

What you're basically talking about is porting the Dynamic Collection
feature to Amarok 2, since it does exactly that.

Much of the groundwork for this has been kept in place in the database
schema, so it might not be too difficult.

--Jeff