Hi

I'm having trouble with the way amarok presents my music.  I have the sidebar with all my songs (by artist, then album) and a blank scrren on the right where i can build / enqueue songs for a playlist.  I would rather have it like itunes, wmp, or mediamonkey where all of my songs are presented to me and i can just clik on the ones i want to hear.  I want amarok to start at the song i click on and just squentially play my files.

For exmpale, how can i go about opening amarok, and having it play random songs from my entire library? 

I suppose i could just make a massive playlist of every song, but it owuld have to make a new one everytime i get new music...

any advice is much appreciated. thank you

Pretty much all the questions you ask are answered in the amarok handbook You can find it on the 'help' menu. As a starting point, look for 'dynamic playlists'.

something as baisc as displaying one's entire lbrary involves searching the manual and setting up dynamic playlists??  It seems so counter-intuitive compared to most other music players.  Thanks a lot for the help though, i'll give the users manual a good look through when i get home. 

cool.
i had a look into the dynamic and smart playlists, and can think of some really cool things to do with them.  Much better than i had first though, so thanks again!

ps: documentation/help isn't available for gnome users apparantly. i just googled the manual though.