Hello everbody,

im using amrok since about 2 months, before I used prokyon3 with xmms.
Amarok has some nice features, but my opinion is that the usage of the collection window to create playlists is very unconformatable and circuitous. This opinion is also shared by many fellow students wich are using linux too.
Thats why I think to post this message for discussion.

My suggestion for the collection window:
Spilt the window in 3 parts. On the left side ab tree browser with the artists and the albums, like it is current. The Main window split horizontal in two. In the head window display the the tracks of the selected artists or the albmus from the tree window. And on bottom show the playlist window there I can drag my tracks.
Part the track window view in different colums for example genre, tracknumber or album, with the option to sort the tracklist by clicking on the column description. You can also track selction window you can add some tabs whith options to search for artits or filter the tags like it is in prokyon3.
When you look at prokyon3 you can see that my suggestions are based mostly of this gui, because I think the usabillity of this programm in searching for tracks or managing playlists is very intuitive.

And the question is why not to combine a great player with nice features like amarok is, with the usabillity of a mp3 collection browser like prokyon3?
Good, you can think that I am accustomed using prokyon3 and for this reason I have difficulties with amarok, but I\'m interested what other people say, if amarok has a good usability or some improvements are needed. If I was a programmer I would do the changes of the gui by myself, that isn\'t unfortunately the case.
Im very anxious what you say.

Best regards

Frank

Well, I looked at prokyon3 long enough to know that I don\'t like it. amaroK should never be near so complicated.

It is currently difficult to listen to music and create a seperate playlist at the same time. Tabs are the only solution I can think of. I guess it would work out, like browser tabs you would only have to deal with them if you wanted to.

Isn\'t that what the context window for? To display tracks by the same artist, as you play them? I\'m confused by your description.

Also i agree with the eean. There is much to be said by the cleanness of Amarok\'s design. Prokyon should definitely not be the target for design.

I was frustrated by the differences from Rhythmbox when i made the switch ~6 months ago. But once i put r.box away and used Amarok exclusively i found i didn\'t really need those features, and that Amarok _was_ a better, cleaner, and more intuitive jukebox. For me anyway. I think a lot of it is just what you\'re used to.

I like the idea of tabs for several playlists very much!!

Edit:
Just spend some seconds contemplating and this is the result:
Tabs are not the best thing, because in my opinion, it would be very useful, if you could drag and drop tracks from one of the playlists to the other!

Post edited by: david, at: 2004/12/18 08:16

Well, as with web browsers, that would be possible (I\'m consistently dragging links from one tab to be opened in another). But not the easiest. I hardly ever use saved playlists, but when I do, I\'m certainly not merging more then one. I guess YMMV.