amarok doubt

[Harald Sitter]

Ahoy,

I suggest to just use the random mix dynamic playlist in combination
with the collection browser tab for searching/queuing.

On 6/1/07, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <admin at leinir.dk> wrote:
> Friday 01 June 2007 skrev manoj mathai:
> > i have a collection of about 500+ songs. the collection spans multiple
> > folders. what i want is a single playlist of all the songs in my
> > collection and to play them randomly. the playlist shud be dynamic in
> > the sense that when i add/del/rename/move,etc files in collection, it
> > shud be reflected in the playlist. this need not be automatic,
> > manually initiating the playlist update process using gui will do. and
> > also searching this playlist as and when reqd to queue/play particular
> > songs. can this be achieved in amarok ??
>
>   You might want to give the Random Mix dynamic playlist a shot. It will
> play
> tracks from your entire collection in random order, and because it shows a
> sort of playback queue rather than pulling in the entire collection, it will
> automatically take new tracks added to the collection into account. Hope
> this
> works for you :) (what you're describing (loading the entire collection and
> playing that in random) is a more xmms-ish or winamp-ish way of handling
> playback, and isn't really what Amarok is designed for - the dynamic
> playlists try and solve the same sort of use case, but in a different, more
> featureful manner)
>
> --
> ..Dan // Leinir..
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>
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