Bug 134935

Summary:	filter out incomplete albums from collection view
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	jarlath <jarlathreidy>
Component:	Collection Browser	Assignee:	Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jack1, pndiku, tuomas
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.3-GIT
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description jarlath 2006-10-01 05:01:57 UTC

Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages
OS: Linux

This is a usability wish. I have a lot of mp3s on my system that are not accompanied by the rest of their respective album tracks. I have maybe 30 - 40 complete albums, and about 350 further of these lone mp3's.

The problem is that my collection, as viewed in the browser is massive, and when I, or others spend time going through this long list - it's annoying to find that the album you have finally chosen only has one or two songs. (Usually the case)

I would like to see a feature where I can select to only see complete albums in the collection browser.

I can think of a few ways of implementing this. Amarok needs to know which albums are complete. Two ways I can think of right off are:

1) using an online service with consistant web page formatting to determine via an algorithm how many tracks are in the album, and verifying the album in the collection against this data. This might prove to be flaky and unpredictable / inaccurate.

2) The user could CTRL + click all albums in the collection and then use a context menu to mark these as complete albums.

There are potential problems with #2. If an album that wasn't selected had it's 'isCompleteAlbum' tag previously set to true, should amarok negate this / leave it unchanged / or ask the user?

This extra view I'm interested in could be added to the Group By button. I know it would make my collection far more managable and I'm sure others are in the same situation. I just hope I've explained it clearly enough.

To summarize, what I've mentioned here are three things:
1) a problem situation (collection representation clutter)
2) a solution as I see it (filtration of incomplete albums)
3) possible ways of implementing this.

I think 1 and maybe 2 are solid. 3 needs development.

Comment 1 jarlath 2006-10-01 05:08:02 UTC

Another option here is to allow the user to have more than one collection, and select which one to view in the Collection Browser Pane. For example, collection1 could have all mp3's, and another custom collection could just watch certain folders.

Comment 2 Dan Meltzer 2008-07-28 04:09:24 UTC

This is way too narrow a corner case, with no easy way to implement it.  I don't see it ever happeneing.

Comment 3 Daniel Winter 2008-07-28 15:03:45 UTC

I think it will be possible with the return of labels/tags.  You should be able to give all complete albums the tag "complete"  and then filter by tag in the collection browser. 

At that is the way I hope it will work. I am working on that. But I doubt it will make it into Amarok 2.0.  2.1 is more likly.

Comment 4 jarlath 2008-07-29 02:18:03 UTC

Great, I'm looking forward to Amarok 2.1 then!

Jarlath

Comment 5 Re4mer 2008-10-24 15:38:52 UTC

Hi, I just wanted to submit the same wish and found this then.

I have another solution:
The standard MP3 Tags already contain the fields "track number" and ALSO how many tracks the album is supposed to have. So if you for example have a track which has in its tag the track number "2" of "12" it should be pretty easy to integrate an automatic function in amarok to show ONLY these albums that have all the tracks. Of course the user would have to have all the correct tags entered (every album track needs to tell the track number of the album). But this way an additional "complete album"-tagging option in amarok would not be necessary.

Comment 6 Peter C. Ndikuwera 2010-09-30 21:16:10 UTC

You can use labels to do this in current amarok

Comment 7 Tuomas Nurmi 2025-07-20 19:55:24 UTC

Yeap. Has been possible to do with labels, since Amarok 2.2 from 2010, or so. Closing.