From amarok Mon Jan 29 18:14:22 2007 From: "Michael Guimet Pekszyc" Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:14:22 +0000 To: amarok Subject: Database Features (suggestions) Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=amarok&m=117009455824510 Hi, I'm new on the list. I read on the FAQ that ideas and suggestions were accepted on the list so I decided to give it a go. Just to set you on track let me tell you I'm not using the svg version but 1.4.4 on Gentoo. Excuse me if the ideas proposed are not suitable for Amarok or are out of the features Amarok wants to offer. I'm also aware that the FF series is in its end but I thought it interesting to expose my ideas anyway. Before using Amarok, i used prokyon3 (http://prokyon3.sourceforge.net/) to keep my music database. Amarok preforms as a "player" much better than prokyon3. It also has a better display of artwork and information. In fact, prokyon3 uses external programs for those features (being able to choose Amarok as a player if desired). Now, I believe that prokyon3 preforms better in the database/tag editing functions. Obviously, this is an opinion but I specially like 2 features from this program. The first is the way it keeps removable media in the database and "labels" CDs so you can know what cd your song is on. I do realise that in a world where hard drive prices are decreasing this is a relatively unimportant feature, nevertheless it's specially useful for those of us with older computers. The second feature I'd like to highlight is the tag editing options it provides. All in all I get a better database experience on prokyon3 than on Amarok. Unfortunately I'm not aware of why this is so. If there are any other prokyon3 users around could they provide some reasons? To resume, being Amarok my music player I miss some of the options of a more database like program. I'm not saying Amarok should adopt these features and I understand that Amarok is a music player and not a database frontend but, with music collections growing in size should more database related feature be considered? Thanks for your time and thank you for your work on the best player around. Michael (Please note all the ideas exposed are not mine but from the prokyon3 project that is GPLed) _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok