Multiple Collections or similar

[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.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Lydia
I hadn't thought about that. It should be simpler than trying to set up some 
sort of mount/unmount setup.

I still think there are use cases for multiple collections but that work-
around should take care of the biggest one.

I'm not very familiar with amarok 2 so maybe there is already an accepatble 
way to syncronize a portable media player but, It would be cool if along with 
multiple collections that could be turned on and off if it were possible to 
syncronize collections. With that I could maintain a "main" collection that I 
always kept <= the capacity of my portable and then anything else that I 
didn't listen to as much could go in an auxillary collection. I could then 
just syncronize my main collection to my portable collection(s) and it would 
always keep most of my music on my portable(s) and music that I didn't need to 
pack with me (christmas and music that isn't really my favorite genere) would 
stay right on my computer and I could view that collection or disable it with 
the click of a mouse. Kinda like layers on (google) maps.

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			-Cody Christensen