While moodbar isn't really super important, it's clearly cool to see the mood of a song, so I was excited to see it back in 2.2.2! I had enabled it but didn't notice the Wiki about how to make it work until valorie on IRC pointed me to it.. Works now..

In Amarok 1.4, all of the mood files went into a separate path from the mp3's.. For the sake of keeping the mp3 directories free of clutter, plus for those collections which might be read-only, is it possible for these to be read/created in a different location? Amarok 1.4 did 'em in ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/moods all in the same dir, but perhaps something like ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/moods/Path/To/Normal/.File.mood would be good?

The scripts could be fairly easily updated to reflect it, and I'd think it'd work out a little better in some setups.

I'm going to experiment some more, but I have a song here which has an apostrophe in it, and no mood shows for it, so I suspect some possible issue with finding/loading mood files with some special characters in it. I'll look more and look in the bug tracker, but figured I'd mention it.

Thanks for implementing it for 2.x

one question: how do you "turn the mood bar on" ? i changed the type in the settings page, but the progress bar stays gray. do i have to install anything ?

Argoson, what Amarok will do is display the .mood files you have created. To create those .mood files outside of Amarok, see:

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Moodbar You need to install the moodbar program, which requires gstreamer. For a technical explanation of original concept: http://exscalibar.sourceforge.net/files/ismir-2005.pdf

Explore your music,

Valorie