coverflow for amarok 2

[Daniel Winter]

Am Sonntag, 9. März 2008 21:01:39 schrieb Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen:

>   While we are aware of CoverFlow, we are also aware of the inherent
> uselessness of the concept... We do, however, recognise the potential
> usefulness of eyecandy, and so we set out to figure out a way of making
> CoverFlow itself useful. What we came up with was the CD Stack idea. Please
> check out the KDE Summer of Code page[2] for more information on this :)
>
> [2] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#Amarok

Hello,

as others already said, both cover view concepts are somehow useless.

Cover flow has the advantage that you can really see the covers. I don't can 
image that with that cd stack idea. Although i see the point that the cd 
stack better fits in amaroks vertical collection view. 

Well i really like the idee to use the cover images to navigate in my 
collection. It brings eyecandy and well i know my cds from the real world 
with covers bring move that feeling over to the virtual collection in amarok 
would be cool. But well i can not see a way to make it really usefull. 

Looking on the back of the cds like with the cd stack idea you don't see much 
of the covers. So you are not able to distinct the albums from each others. 

Maybe there is a way for a vertical cower flow. For example as you look from 
above on cds standing in a drawer. And well you then browse through it. But 
to make that look nice you need the backcovers of the cds. But well most 
people will not have backcover images of their cds. And amazon doesn't 
provide them either. 

DanielW