When will this feature be available in Amarok 2?
In the configuration, last FM service it is selectable but I can't find where the songs / artists would be displayed?

Missing it terribly!

Thanks
Phil

Any news on this one?

You can do this with the Last.fm plugin in Amarok 2.1. There you can add a custom stream based on a specific "Artist", "Tag", or "User".

Does that plugin show similar songs that are in MY library when I am playing a certain song, and then allow me to queue them as in Amarok 1.4?

Thanks!

Hi,

any news on this issue? The "suggested artists/songs" was one of my favourite applets of the old context browser, but it seems missing also from 2.2beta1. On a related note, also the "favourite songs from currently playing artist" applet was very nice and useful for me. Are there any plans to reimplement these for 2.X?

Thanks and congrats for the hard work you are putting on 2.x, it's growing with every release!

Mario

Check out the Dynamic Playlists -> Custom Bias, I guess that is what you are looking for.

Hi,

no, I am not looking for a dynamic playlist (I already use and appreciate them very much), but for the applets that just *showed* me the favourite songs and related artists. They were applets that in the 1.X series were just sitting in the context browser and did nothing but just *showing* things to me. I liked them because from time to time I could just pick some songs from those lists and queue them, without the need to set up a dynamic playlist for that, and without altering the rest of my playlist.

I hope I was clear, but if you want I can post here a screenshot of the old (1.X) Amarok, to show what I am referring to (but ok... you should know them better than me...).

bump,

this is definitely a huge feature that is missing in all other players that I used all the time from Amarok 1.4. As the original poster said this would read similar artists from last.fm and show a list of artists you have in your collection that you may want to listen to. It is the main reason I used amarok to begin with.

jimct wrote:Hi,

no, I am not looking for a dynamic playlist (I already use and appreciate them very much), but for the applets that just *showed* me the favourite songs and related artists. They were applets that in the 1.X series were just sitting in the context browser and did nothing but just *showing* things to me. I liked them because from time to time I could just pick some songs from those lists and queue them, without the need to set up a dynamic playlist for that, and without altering the rest of my playlist.

I hope I was clear, but if you want I can post here a screenshot of the old (1.X) Amarok, to show what I am referring to (but ok... you should know them better than me...).

No problem, clear enough
Since those applets are third-party applications, there is little we can do about that. You could talk to the original author on kde-apps.org if he could adapt that to Amarok 2.

Else, file a wish on http://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=amarok so the developers will see it or check the wishlist here: http://tinyurl.com/wishlist2assigned

Hi,

sorry, but these applets were in every standard amarok installation, and were present also if I compiled amarok (1.X) from source code, so (I could be wrong but) I really don't think that they were third party!

Anyway, you're are right that I should file a wish in the bug tracker so the developers can see it. I will do that ASAP.

Yo,
This applet is on my TODO list for post 2.2 (busy right now)

Check again in a month or 2

Simon

Wow! These are excellent news!
Looking forward to having them back in Amarok

Thank you
Mario

Just wondering if this feature is available now in 2.2 and I'm missing it?

you'll notice takahani said post-2.2

anyway, it's not in trunk nor 2.2 yet. would be quite easy to write, btw. someone just needs to do it!

leo

Any news about this applet?