It's all about the sauce

Tuesday, March 1. 2005

It's all about the sauce

So I arrived home this morning from nearly 25 hours of flying, and was compelled to cvs up. Three months of travelling surely makes the heart grow fonder. I have found that amarok has matured substantially, we are picking up on fixing those picky bits.

Ever liked an album so much, that you have bought all their albums? I'm sure most of us come close at least. Then to top it off, a Greatest Hits album is released in which all of, if not most of the tracks you already have. Why did you buy the CD? Because you had to. The attraction of another invaluable collective piece.

I have many such discs. What I don't really like is having amarok show me the 1 or 2 tracks without the listing of the other tracks. Why? Lets face it, because I am anal about my music collection. Thats why I love amarok so much (amongst the hundreds of other reasons!).

So I had an idea. What if amarok could symbolically link songs to be in other albums? Wouldn't that be cool? it wouldn't have to be very complex, it could still keep all the attributes of the original album, except track number. I had a long think about it, and couldn't come up with any practical way of achieving this utopian listing, without totally screwing everything and everyone around.

Anyone have suggestions?

Take care,
seb

ps - i'll have photos of my trip on the web some time soon!

Posted by Seb Ruiz in sebr at 22:46 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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could you perhaps store the 2nd copy in a diff/patch setup, that way all of the meta info (provided its stored as tags within the file) would be maintained and also any extra bits before or after the track (like silence), the only thing left to worry about is that alot of cd's that have the same tracks wouldn't have the exact same binary data for the tracks

#1 underlord (Homepage) on 2005-03-02 00:14 (Reply)

Why not use a playlist?

#2 Ian Monroe (Homepage) on 2005-03-03 03:56 (Reply)

Since this is something I really would like in AmaroK, here's my idea: why not having a text file acting as a music file for AmaroK. The text file could look the same as a kde config file, something like

[Music File Link]
File=/path where the actual music file is
Album=the new album title
Track=the new track number
Year=...

If AmaroK recognizes these files as music, it could use it like an ordinary music file, and it could be displayed in the context browser (and perhaps optionally in the playlist). Off course there should be special actions when you play these files (I don't have any idea how difficult it would be to let the engine play another file than the current song) or when you delete a file that's linked, and when the music file doesn't exist, but that's obvious off course...

#3 Selene on 2005-03-12 19:44 (Reply)

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