In Amarok 2.3.2, if you right click on an artist in a collection on a music player and pick "Delete Tracks", you get a confirmation dialog with this text: "Do you really want to delete these tracks? They will be removed from disk as well as your collection.", along with a list of the pathnames that will be removed. Depending on the source of the mp3's, the names might be meaningful or complete gibberish.

The message is pretty clear that it is going to remove the tracks from two places, but the paths are all on the mounted player and not in the collection on my computer. Given that Amarok is, umm, not quite finished, what is it going to do? Until now, I didn't have the courage to find out.

In fact, the tracks are only removed from the player. The message is misleading. I suggest that the dialog ask, "Do you really want to remove these tracks from collection 'Foo'?" The distinction between removal from the "disk" and from the "collection" probably exists only in the mind of an Amarok developer and should not be exposed to users. If you're going to impose an abstraction called "collection" between the user and his storage devices, you need to stick strictly to it.

Thanks for listening,

Paul Allen

Paul, that sounds worthy of filing a bug about. http://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=amarok or use Help > Report Bug right in Amarok to have some of your system information automatically filled out in the form.

Thanks!