Bug 110619

Version:           1.3 SVN (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

Inspired by comments on this blog (http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/52-The-direction-of-digital-music.html) and by the new tagging system implemented by Last.fm/Audioscrobbler, I wanted to ask for this feature.

Would it be possible to intergrate last.fm's arbitary tagging system in amarok in some way so as to allow you to tag your files and then synchronise your tags with Last.fm's database once you are online? This would allow you for easier tagging while also saving your settings in case of loss of profile.

Arbitary tags are great for categorising music the way you like it. Say for example you are listening songs at random and you find a song that you feel would be great for listening while driving. You right click on the track, choose (for example) "a-tag file" (as in arbitary-tag) and type in the text box "Driving".
Then at any point you can retrieve all songs tagged as "Driving" and play them or write them in a CD as a collection to take them with you. 
Take a look at Last.fm's tagging system to get more examples of this.

An extra option would be to allow you to reverse synchronise with last.fm. That is to update your files with tags you have entered on the site. This could be implemented as a user called function I suppose.

The a-tags could (should?) be written in the sql database amaroK uses.