Multiple Collections or similar

[Marcel Hilzinger]

Am Dienstag, 2. November 2010 19:20:30 schrieb 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? :)

No, not yet, but actually our working places are 800 km away from each other, 
so maybe she just keeps the greatings until we meet personally :-)

Marcel



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