Bug 249140

Summary:	Enable multiple playlists at once and use their intersection
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	erik_hahn
Component:	Playlist	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nhn, teo
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.3.1.90
Target Milestone:	2.4.0
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description erik_hahn 2010-08-26 19:25:09 UTC

Version:           2.3.2 (using KDE 4.4.2) 
OS:                Linux

I suggest to make it possible to enable more than one playlist at once. Amarok would then only play songs that are in both playlists.

For example, one could create the playlists "Rock", "Classical", "My favourite tracks" and "Not recently played", making it possible to select combinations like "my favourite rock tracks", "not recently played classical tracks" or even "favourite but not recently played tracks" without having to create an extra playlist for every possible combination.

Essentially, this system would relate to singe playlists as tags relate to directories.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-08-26 20:53:57 UTC

Erik, you can't have Amarok 2.3.2, see my comment in the other bug, so I set it to 2.3.1.90 as I guess you talk about 2.3.2 beta, right?

You should have a look at the Automatic Playlist Generator, I think that is what you are looking for.

Comment 2 erik_hahn 2010-08-27 20:02:04 UTC

> Erik, you can't have Amarok 2.3.2, see my comment in the other bug, so I set it
> to 2.3.1.90 as I guess you talk about 2.3.2 beta, right?
>
> You should have a look at the Automatic Playlist Generator, I think that is
> what you are looking for.
Not exactly. For one, I'd have to define the criteria for "favourite 
song" for each single playlist and also update it when e.g. I want to 
change the importance of rating and score. Having a criteria like "is in 
playlist foo" would already help a lot.

Even then, I'd still have to create a playlist "In playlist foo & in 
playlist bar" for every combination I want to use. That's just a minor 
inconvenience, though. The first part is more important, I think.

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-08-28 08:51:07 UTC

OK, thank you for your feedback.

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-08-28 08:53:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 239951 ***

Comment 5 erik_hahn 2010-08-28 14:41:36 UTC

Unless I've severely misunderstood the other bug, this is not a dupe. This is not about editing one playlist while using a different one but about enabling two playlists at once with amarok internally using a "virtual" playlist which contains the tracks that are present in both active playlists.