Above the playlist there's a filter box. Maybe my old brain is too inflexible in thinking but it seems to me that it's not possible to filter for more than one criteria? I'd like to filter my playlists for several artists without the need to alter my playlist. E.g. sometimes just I want to listen to "Count Basie" and "Dave Brubeck", sometimes to "Fats Domino" and "Louis Armstrong" from the same list. But when I filter for "basie" I cannot filter for "brubeck" at the same time. First I tried to enter both criteria but then I just got nothing. Then I tried it with "OR" between those two - but that doesn't work either. I cannot believe that such a feature rich music application like amarok cannot do it - so please, where is the trick and can you please make it more easily discoverable? Reproducible: Always
You should use the dynamic playlist for that, or filter in the collection browser.
Thanks for your answer. When I filter for those artists in the collection I have to add them to playlist. That is not what I want. I already have my preferred playlist loaded and don't want to alter it, I just want to hear not only the specific songs of one but two or three artists in it. I have more songs of those artists but I don't want them in that playlist. I admit I haven't yet taken a look at those dynamic playlists. That seems very complicated and it also doesn't seem to match my needs. I don't want to filter the collection for artists or genres to get a new playlist, it's the static playlist of my chosen songs I just want to filter for more than one single criteria. If I would use that dynamic I would have to do the work twice each time I want to listen to the songs because nearly every time I want to hear another combiantion of the songs already chosen in my playlist. I would constantly need to define new dynamic playlists to filter for artist A + artist B + song a + song b + song d but not song c, song f and song g of artist A but + song z of artst B and so on. I also could go through the whole playlist and put song by song in the queue but that is even easier than your proposal but also much too longwinded. A simple "Armstrong" in the filter does it, why not a "Armstrong OR Domino"?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 193537 ***