DJ playlist

[Ralf Engels]

Hi Cedric,

That is currently not possible.

This might even be a case where a static playlist would make sense.
The Dynamic Playlist UI is quite easy currently but on the other hand
some people say that it's much to complex and geeky.

Considering this, I would say, we rather don't add this feature right
now.

Cheers,
Ralf


On Fr, 2011-06-24 at 12:00 +0200, amarok-devel-request at kde.org wrote:
> From: C?dric <cedric.borgese at gmail.com>
> Subject: DJ playlist
> To: amarok-devel at kde.org
> Cc: cedric.borgese at gmail.com
> Message-ID: <BANLkTikhMBbP6mfHM7yeU3nnwWygDVf5wQ at mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> Hello amarok developpers,
> I use amarok since version 1.3 and I'm very happy with it :)
> But now, I have a very specific use case for a "dj playlist" that I
> don't
> know how to handle with the current dynamic playlist functionnality
> and I
> think it would be a nice idea to add to amarok.
> 
> Here the problem : I sometime organise small dance parties with
> friends and
> I'm the one who set the music, I usually prepare my playlist before
> the
> party, or I do dj in real time (using amarok, of course...)
> What I would like to see, is a mode to play dynamically song grouped
> by
> genre (or any other tag).
> Let me explain, I want for example (and this is what I'm actually
> doing),
> play between 3 and 6 musics where the tag is "rock", then between 3
> and 6
> where the tag is "pop"  and then between 2 and 3 "slow", and restart
> with
> the "rock" phase.
> The ideal for me would be a "DJ mode" in the playlist panel that let
> me
> select how many queries I want, and for each query, let my set a range
> of
> songs to play.
> in that case, my queries would be :
> 
> 1 ) "genre=rock" range 3-6
> 2 ) "genre=pop"  range 3-6
> 3 ) "genre=slow" range 2-3
> 
> [x] when the playlist finishes, generate a new one.
> 
> If this is already possible with current amarok features, I'll be very
> happy
> to know how to do that. If it is not the case, do you think it would
> be a
> nice addition to dynamic playlist and do you plan to add something
> like that
> ?
> 
> thanks :)