amarok doubt

[Gleb Litvjak]

> i have a collection of about 500+ songs. the collection spans multiple
> folders. 

Folders are irrelevant :) Amarok scans metadata and allows to group tracks by 
any metatag (artist, album, genre, year)/

> 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.

Amarok has a smart playlist called "All collection" - I guess that's what you 
want
> and 
> also searching this playlist as and when reqd to queue/play particular
> songs. can this be achieved in amarok ??

Sure. There's a search bar at the top of the playlist. To queue a track, right 
click it and set "Queue track". You can also Ctrl+Right click, or select a 
track and press Ctrl+D (these actions will do exactly the same).
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