Dynamic Collection

[Mark Kretschmann]

On 8/31/08, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Tim Bocek wrote:
>
>  > I've been playing with Amarok 2 since Project Neon came out, and I'm
>  > very impressed with the work that's been done so far.  However, I've
>  > got all of my music on an external drive and, from my
>  > experimentation, it doesn't look like dynamic collections (the
>  > feature from Amarok 1.4 which detected whether media on an external
>  > drive was present and, if not, would temporarily exclude it from the
>  > collection) is in place.
>
> Dynamic collections to the best of my knowledge have not been
>  implemented in 2.0 yet. This is not due to a desire on out part to
>  remove the functionality, but rather it is not essential to amarok's
>  functionality and as such is lower in our list of priorities than
>  getting the rest of Amarok 2 functional.
>
>  That said, if you wish to implement them yourself, we welcome you to
>  do so. As you stated, we are in a feature freeze, so your best bet is
>  to get started with git-svn and develop it in a private branch, then
>  when we are unfrozen we can look at merging them again.

Another problem is that Update Collection isn't implemented either. So
clicking this function couldn't have worked.

However, this feature is meant to be part of 2.0 and is just missing a
few details before it will work again.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org