I have been using Amarok for a while. I find it to be the most suitable player for me so far. The features are great and am starting to like the player more and more. There is only one but. The feature i am missing (or maybe have not noticed) is the ability to have more then one playlist open, perhaps arranged in tabs. Something like what Foobar 2000 has. This is the only feature i am missing from this great soft.

After using all the functionality the playlist browser has to offer, you quickly learn tabs are useless.

That\'s ****.

I do use all the functionality the playlist browser has to offer every day, but yet, I stand to the point that tabbed playlists would be a huge (usability) improvement for amaroK!

I stand to the point that it would be really confusing! And require refactoring like half of amaroK! :silly:

\"That\'s ****.\"

OK, explain why it\'s ****. Or better yet, explain how having tabbed playlists would be such a HUGE improvement. And remember nobody likes the \"I want it this way, that\'s why it would be good.\" reasons.

\"OK, explain why it\'s ****.\"

Calling tabs \"useless\" is BS because amaroK already uses tabs now in the context browser and they are anything else but useless!

\"Or better yet, explain how having tabbed playlists would be such a
HUGE improvement\"

We had this discussion before, so why make it up all again?

http://amarok.kde.org/component/option, ... itstart,0/

(mxcl: \"Already on the TODO\" - hm?!)

\"And remember nobody likes the \\\"I want it this way, that\'s why it would be good.\\\" reasons.\"

That\'s exactly the same reasons you are using to make your point against tabs.

You also missed the thing that sebr said about the necessity of refactoring half the playlist code for that... and that is not a job for the fainthearted.

Well, I don\'t know about this, but yes, that would be the first good reason against this feature then... B)

I haven\'t thought about tabbed playlists until I read this forum thread.
And all of sudden I understood what I was always missing!!!!

Hi,

i would like to have several playlists open too. I listen to my music when sitting at the computer, my wife changes the playlist to her playlist, normally listening to audio books. Then i change the playlist again and so on and on ...


Klaus

you might not be aware of this, but tracks can be dragged and dropped onto any playlist in the playlist browser, regardless of whether the playlist is loaded or not.

edit: after further playing around with this... I\'ve discovered the following.

* If the saved playlist is expanded, tracks can be dragged from the current playlist onto the saved playlist and dropped in a particular place in that list.

* You can remove files from the saved playlists by right-clicking on them.

* At the moment, you can\'t easily rearrange the order of the saved playlist without loading it then resaving it, but you can work around this by using the current playlist as a temporary storage place for tracks.
Drag tracks from the saved playlist to the end of the current playlist.
Remove said tracks from saved playlist as above.
Drag the tracks from the current playlist to their new position in the saved playlist.
Remove the temporary tracks from the current playlist.

Now this *is* clumsy, but I believe a couple of people are looking at a neater way to do it without duplicating stacks of code by adding tabbed playlists.

Post edited by: dangle_wtf, at: 2006/02/17 18:11

I miss this feature too. It seems very natural.