I know Amarok can work with a "collection" spread over multiple folders & drives...

Okay, so now I have a USB drive connected with 279 GB more music.

How do I get Amarok to see that drive and scan it, and include the music in the collection?  When I "configure collection," it only gives me folders actually in the internal hard drive as options, how do I tell it to scan the external USB drive?

thanks!

w

aha!  I think I figured it out!  Under "Media" right?  There is my USB drive - I checked it and now it seems to be adding the files to the collection.

a more general question: is there a basic amarok manual online that I can study and memorize somewhere?  There are some help files I see, but I haven't found a comprehensive manual yet.

I would volunteer to help with the writing & editing of such a manual - am a professional writer & reviewer dude...

w

Probably the amarok handbook (help menu, handbook) is the most comprehensive... I *know* for a fact it's not up to date though, as I think I was close to the last person working on it, and I haven't had time to do anything since 1.4.3 was out. There's a wiki page set up for handbook development, although it will all need complete rewrite for 2.0.

http://rokymotion.pwsp.net/wiki/Main_Page
If you're interested, contacting the rokymotion team either through the mailing list (amarok-promo@kde.org) or on IRC (irc.freenode.org:6667 #rokymotion) would be a great starting point.