Version:           2.3.0 (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

For songs I don't like or don't want to hear anymore, I want some way to exclude them from dynamic playlists without removing them from my collection all together (there may come a day when I want to hear that whole album in its entirety, or just that song or something! who knows! Music organization shouldn't be about "deleting"). In Amarok 1.4 I did this by rating the song with 1 star and adding a condition "rating is not 1 star" to a Smart Playlist. Simple and effective. With Amarok 2, the "with ___ equal to" condition is gone and I can't use "match rating greater than .5 stars" or something because that also eliminates unrated songs (which are like 95% of my collection). Technically I could still achieve the same goal with "proportional bias 100% -> match rating with less than 5 stars" and use 5 stars to code "hate song" but this is pretty counterintuitive.

My Amarok 1.4 approach was obvious enough to me but still seems a little hacky. I think there should be some intuitive, coherent way to coordinate these kind of "exclude". iTunes uses "checkboxes" to do the same thing, but to a new user the meaning of a "check" is not exactly a obvious symbol, so I don't like that. My ideal solution would to be to add a "not" to option all of the bias controls in dynamic playlists, and allow filtering based on labels (so I could define my own "dislike" label and say "proportion 100% not labeled with dislike").