Multiple Collections or similar

[Lydia Pintscher]

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.


Cheers
Lydia

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