Amarok, labels and smart playlists

[Seb Ruiz]

On 02/11/2007, Gleb Litvjak <blaster999 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been an Amarok user for quite a long time (since v. 1.1), and it's the
> best player I've ever seen. It's easy to use yet very powerful, and it helped
> me to organize my collection, which I would never try to do by hand.
>
> Now, to the not-so-pleasant things. Amarok's smart playlists is a great
> feature. It allows to select songs from the collection based on custom
> conditions. I tried to create a smart playlist, containing all rock songs
> downloaded from Jamendo. So I added 2 conditions in the section "match all of
> the following":
> Label contains "rock"
> Label contains "jamendo"
>
> (I have added "jamendo" label to all the songs downloaded from there). The
> result is unexpected: I get an empty playlist. Aparently, Amarok searches for
> songs, containing both "rock" and "jamendo" in the same label, while it
> should look in all labels for the same song. Another annoyance is that if a
> song has both "rock" and "hard rock" as labels, it will be selected twice if
> the condition is 'Label contains "rock"'. In my opinion this behavior differs
> from the expected - can we call it a bug?

This bug has been in our system for a long time now.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140542

Please read for an explanation of why this cannot be done now without
a heck of a lot of work.

-- 
Seb Ruiz

http://www.sebruiz.net/