It seems that some of the functions I used almost daily in Amarok 1 are not to be found (at least by me) in Amarok 2. After a thread without a solution on how to play Random tracks, here is a new one.
In Amarok 1 I used to place a track (e.g. sitting in a download directory) in the playlist (by clicking on it). A right click on it in the play list revealed a few options. Two of them:
. copy track to collection.
. move track to collection
Both are gone in Amarok 2 and I could not find a replacement.
Btw when I right click on an item in the collection list (at left) there is still the Reorganize file(s) that is very much the ‘collection internal’ equivalent.
As I suppose that it is possible to add to the local collection, who knows how to do it?
I had some problems understanding where those menus originated, I suppose it is from some file manager. But that is not the problem, when I click on an mp3 in a file manager it does (as default) the Append and Play. It adds to the Playlist, but not to the Collection.
It is then in the Amaroks playlist. But then I like the track and I want to move it to my collection (which is mp3 files in a tree of directories maintained by Amorok). I earlier did this by right-click on it in the playlist inside Amarok. That menu contained the mentioned entries in Amarok 1 and not in Amarok 2.
Amarok puts them also there (or on another place when you like), but in a directory tree with a structure you can decide. I decided for:
First level: Artist;
Second level: Album (with disc number postfixed if known);
Third level: Track (with number prefixed if known).
All found in the MP3 meta tags. Very conveniant. No need to dig down throught the levels using a file manager. Track names that are equal, but have a different artist are automaticaly in the correct place without danger of overwriting them.
Thus with Amarok 1 I checked the Tags (and corrected when needed) and said to Amarok: put them in the right place. Ready. Very convinient and I always though that Amarok made a special point of maintaining your music collection.
Bit when nobody else can tell if Amarok still has any support for this I am afraid that a lot of people quit Amarok (fort this and other reasons).
Normally there is a ‘copy/move to collection’ menu when you right click on music that is not in the collection yet, e.g. when browsing through the ‘Files’ section of Amarok. However, in the current beta (which is put in the KDE 4.4 repo) this is not there - should be fixed soon.
The dutch are running for answers, I had exactly the same one as thijsdetweede…
One of the beta’s already contained the feature. To check if it returns, click the little home icon, select Files, select a file or folder, click Move to collection. Same for iPods, Zen’s etc.
While I am still wonderting why basic features, like adding tracks to your collection, are not in the product from the beginning, I am glad it will sometime be there. My version is 2.2.90-4.1 from KDE Backports. I supposee that that is latest AND stable.
Thanks for the answers. They show:
that I am not that senile that I could not find it;
FYI. A part of discussion on the KDE Forums, Amarok subforum.
At 11 march I asked how to add. Nobody answered.
On 21 march I posted:
21 maart 2010, 23:13
I am proud to anounce that it is solved. I just installed Amarok 2.3.0 and when having Files in the left panel and right clicking on a track, both (copy and move) are there.
A bit strange that nobody hee could tell me :?
And got very fast the following answer:
The Files menu is completely new and still being improved. I’m glad things are working for you now.
Valorie
Nice answer, but I still wonder if anybode knows what exists and what not in all the (sub)versions.
Hm, seems you are correct in your doubts. When I now ask YaST which versions are available I see that I have installed:
2.3.0-5.1 from KDE Backports
also available:
2.1.1-10.5 from KDE Stable
2.1.1.-7.6 from OSS
Thus I guess that 2.2.90 must have been from KDE Backports also.
Sorry for not telling the truth and nothing but the truth :shame: And always ask your computer and not your own memory.
henk@boven:~> rpm -qi amarok
Name : amarok Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.3.0 Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
Release : 5.1 Build Date: vr 19 mrt 2010 07:43:12 CET
Install Date: zo 21 mrt 2010 21:59:22 CET Build Host: build19
Group : Productivity/Multimedia/Sound/Players Source RPM: amarok-2.3.0-5.1.src.rpm
Size : 31125318 License: GPLv2+
Signature : DSA/SHA1, vr 19 mrt 2010 07:44:09 CET, Key ID 58d8ff412e1efa87
URL : http://amarok.kde.org
Summary : Media Player for KDE
Description :
Amarok is a media player for all kinds of media. This includes MP3, Ogg
Vorbis, audio CDs, podcasts and streams. Play lists can be stored in
.m3u or .pls files.
Authors:
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Christian Muehlhaeuser <chris@chris.de>
Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
Max Howell <max.howell@methylblue.com>
Stanislav Karchebny <berk@inbox.ru>
Distribution: KDE:Backports / openSUSE_11.2
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