Multiple Collections or similar

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Marcel Hilzinger
<mhilzinger at linuxnewmedia.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 30. Oktober 2010 18:42:42 schrieb Cody Christensen:
>> On Saturday, October 30, 2010 07:54:18 am Lydia Pintscher wrote:
>> > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 06:53, Cody Christensen <codyregister at gmail.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > >        Hi everybody. I recently decided that I need to get my music
>> > > collection under control but I'm not sure of the best way to do it.
>> > >        What I am looking for is basically multiple collections. I've
>> > > read some stuff on why there is not multiple collection support but
>> > > nobody seemed to mention my use case.
>> > >        I have a lot of music that I don't want in my "main" collection
>> > > all of the time. Example... I have many Christmas songs that are from
>> > > artists that I don't have any other music by. This fills up my
>> > > collection browser with a ton of artists that 10 months of the year I
>> > > just have to scroll by and filter though. If I could have a separate
>> > > collection just for the Christmas music that I could turn on and off it
>> > > would make it much easier to find what I want to listen to.
>> > >        I also got a bunch of CD's from a family member which I ripped
>> > > but most of the time I don't want to listen to that music because their
>> > > taste in music differs alot. And there are many movie sound tracks
>> > > which clutters up my artist view much like the Christmas songs to. It
>> > > would be nice to have that in a separate collection that I could enable
>> > > or disable as desired.
>> > >
>> > >        The best Idea that I have would be to make some kind of sym link
>> > > or maybe faux-partition that I could mount and un-mount as desired in
>> > > order to simulate the removable collections.
>> > >
>> > > Any Ideas?
>> >
>> > Hi Cody,
>> >
>> > I don't know if that will help you but I always hide my christmas
>> > collection from Amarok by renaming the directory it is in from
>> > /christmas to /.christmas. This way the collection scanner doesn't see
>> > it.
>
> This is a nice way, but I'm sure, I would forget about the .christmas-Folder
> after 11 month :-)
>
> I had a similar idea some month ago: Hide Tracks
>
> I have a lot of albums, where there is one track, which I do definively not
> like. But rather than deleting or moving the file away, I would just like to
> ban it from beeing played in Amarok. So there could be a feature like banned
> tracks and banned albums with a corresponding menü Entry "Show banned items".
>
> Many image viewers have this feature also implemented, I think it's quite
> useful.

Hey Marcel,

did Anika send greetings to you? :)

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at KO GmbH
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
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