Bug 148886

Summary: On-The-Fly playlist creation for current media device transfer
Product: [Applications] amarok Reporter: Oliver <kde_bug>
Component: Collections/Media DevicesAssignee: Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: samuel.brack
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Oliver 2007-08-16 15:14:42 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Use-Case: 

1.  I add some albums to the transfer-queue. 
2.  I want to listen to these albums on my iPod.
3a. I have to create an On-The-Go playlist. 
3b. I have to create a playlist in Amarok before I transfer it to the iPod.

Problem: It isn't easy to tell which albums are "new", especially on media devices with large amounts of disk space.

It would be great to have a textbox or an editable combobox (filled with already existing playlists on the media device) in the Media Device Tab, where you specify a playlist name, in which the files in the transfer queue eventually will added. If no playlist by the name entered in the textbox is found, a new one should be created. 

I think this would be a very neat feature to be able to just key in "latest tunes" and click "transfer". 

What do you think? :)
Comment 1 Seb Ruiz 2007-08-17 04:46:56 UTC 
Not sure we need it, you can go to the Collection browser and select "Added Today" or "Added within the last week" to filter the results. You can find the newly added files and then send them to the media device with drag and drop or the context menu.

is this good enough for you?
Comment 2 Oliver 2007-08-17 20:25:39 UTC 
> You can find the newly added files and then send them to the media device with drag and drop or the context menu. 

Or course, I like this option very much. I'd wish exactly that option on the iPod, but it (and most other portable players I think) do not support anything like this. To achieve what I intended, you would have to add the files you want to transfer to the (Amarok) playlist first, then save it to give it a name, then add the playlist to the transfer-queue and finally click 'transfer'.

Furthermore, the newly created (Amarok) playlist often is useless on the desktop-pc and can be deleted. 

Creating the playlist directly on the media device doesn't save much clicking and dragging either.
Comment 3 Samuel Brack 2010-12-11 15:22:41 UTC 
This seems to be a duplicate of #219458
Comment 4 Mikko C. 2010-12-11 16:17:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 219458 ***