Support for external locations

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
> 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.

Right. For reference:

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Dynamic_Collection

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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