Abstract idea of Song instead of pure file management

[Cody Christensen]

I'm sorry to jump in on a thread that appears almost dead and I won't claim to 
comprehend every one of the posts as some of them are complex and detailed 
but...
	I would like to bring up my idea that I discussed briefly on this list 
earlier this year.  That is the idea of a spell checker type interface.  I 
believe that Amarok 2 will ship with a helper program used for the advanced 
AFT (sorry don't remember exactly what it is called) What if the feature was 
implemented so that only the dead sure entries were automatically associated 
and any other "Advanced" association was handled through an extention to the 
helper program that already exists.
	Basically the way I'm thinking is that the exact match tag function will 
automatically associate them and then if a user wants to fire up the helper 
program they can fuzzy search tags and/or audio match them (if ever 
implemented). The results will be displayed in a spell checker or "same named 
file dialog(like konqueror or dolphin)" type fashion.  This will allow the 
user to see the similarities and differences and listen to the two tracks to 
compare them him/herself.
	To combat the "same song different album" issue they could choose from a list 
of buttons on the side that could say 

Mark as High quality
Share Stats don't hide other similar file (for the different album problem)
Mark for mobile device <drop down box to select a device>
etc.

I'm just throwing this idea out for consideration/ modification/ polish etc.  
I think this idea/ direction could provide some great interface potential or 
just ideas for a better interface.  Advanced users who want to associate 
songs would probably appreciate something like this. I hope that it fits with 
the topic that was discussed enough. For another thought it could potentially  
have a manual association feature where you just select two files from a file 
browser for like the PDF and other files mentioned by Jud earlier.

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							-Cody Christensen