Missing features in Amarok 2.x

[Simon ESNEAULT]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 17:22, Maik Keller <mk3ll3r at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i just like to ask if there a plans to add any of the following features in
> future versions. If some features are already available by using additional
> programs (e.g. a good tag editor) please name them because i´m quite new to
> (K)ubuntu and don´t already know all of the great applications out there. If
> i got some more experience in using (K)ubuntu and developing software for it
> i´ll try to help developing Amarok. But for now i need to learn some basic
> things in the big world of the penguin. ;)
>
> So let´s start:
>
> Improved cover management
>
> - read covers of titles which aren´t in the collection and display them at
> the playlist (e.g. folder.jpg)
>
> - fetch covers from amazon and other sources and save it to a customizable
> location (e.g. the folder containing the song). A great example of an
> implementation of these features is the, windows only because of .NET 3.5,
> program "Album Art Downloader <http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/>".
> You can manually search for art, search for missing art in your collection
> and finally just click the image of the cover you want and it will be saved
> to a predefined, customizable or manually chosen location. I really miss
> this kind of program in the linux world - is there a special reason why
> there isn´t one?
>

That script will copy and save the cover in the folder of the current track
:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=113293



> Queue Manager
>
> - a simple implementation like the one in 1.4 would be great because this
> is a "must have" at parties
>
>
> Collection management / presentation
>
> - a possibility to automatically adjust the file name of a song if you
> change it´s tags (all file names of my collection are well organized so that
> they fit with the tags - and it would be great if i need to do changes just
> at one place). Maybe this can be done by adding some options to the metadata
> editor - a checkbox like "Change the filename, too" and some options for the
> way it will be done ( [artist] - [title].[extension] ) should do the job.
>
> - display artist and title for all songs which are listed at the various
> artist section (well, just the same behavior like 1.4)
>
>
> Thanks for reading and a special thanks to everybody who developed this
> great application.
>
> Maik
>
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Simon Esneault
Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image, (LTSI, UMR-INSERM 642)
Université de Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu,
35042 Rennes Cedex, France.
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Mail : simon.esneault at univ-rennes1.fr
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