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Amarok

Created by Joel W Pauling (aenertia), modified Juli 30, 2008 at 21:16:37 CET | This project has a total of 8 feature requests with 5 comments rated at 105 points | 3 unique implementers | Readiness: 0 features with at least three implementers rated at 0 points

Amarok is the music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface. Amarok makes playing the music you love easier than ever before - and looks good doing it.

Some Quotes:
"my god, that is the sexiest thing I have seen on a desktop — Richard Johnson, Kubuntu Developer

"Amarok is much more than just another music player or iTunes clone; in fact, it blows iTunes away. It is Kryptonite to iTunes Superman. It's the Death Star to iTunes' Alderaan."

— Wil Wheaton

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24	Smart Playlist Flexibility Provide an easy interface for defining custom "Smart playlists" allowing for example to view "Never Played" music by genre, artist, ect.	Feature promoted at 24 points Implementers: Isaak Feature created 2008-04-20 by Kyle Dunn
	Add comment. 2008-07-26 19:57 Visvo anyway... it would be nice to have this feature implemented. it doesn't matter in version 1.4 or 2.0. 2008-04-22 15:14 Myriam Schweingruber I hope you are aware that by the time of the contest, Amarok 2 will be released with quite some new and different features. Get in touch with the Amarok developers before heading into a project that might not be useful in the end!
21	Enable proper of-line collection points. Allow for the collection database to deal with having mount points, which may or may not exist (i.e network stores/ removable hard drives). And intelligently deal with them not being available through hiding collection entries that are not currently available. And also keep available mount point/stores dynamically updating without rebuild/loss of the information from to the offline mounts.	Feature promoted at 21 points No one has agreed to implement this feature. Feature created 2008-04-20 by Joel W Pauling (aenertia)
	Add comment. 2008-04-25 01:19 Myriam Schweingruber please, verify your Amarok version, this is already implemented! Current version is 1.4.9.1 and Amarok 2 Alpha will arrive soon. 2008-04-21 23:43 Myriam Schweingruber I hope you are aware that by the time of the contest, Amarok 2 will be released with quite some new and different features. Get in touch with the Amarok developers before heading into a duplicate project!
19	Cue sheet Full support Cue sheet. Further information	Feature promoted at 19 points Implementers: jchmp Feature created 2008-06-14 by V.
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14	Background Picture Allow to point to an external image to be overlayed as the background. Possibly gradients and patterns also a choice?	Feature promoted at 14 points Implementers: Sly Feature created 2008-04-20 by Kyle Dunn
	Add comment. 2008-04-20 03:24 Kyle Dunn Would be even cooler to interface the visualizations plugin right into the background.
10	all features from Amarok 1.4 Does Amarok 2 has all features from Amarok 1.4? I grabbed yesterday the SVN source and I am missing a lot of features, for example the song queue etc. All these features from Amarok 1.4 should also be in Amarok 2.	Feature promoted at 10 points Implementers: Sly Feature created 2008-07-15 by albert
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6	save song-ratings in mp3 metatags Sometimes you have some music in your download folder or on a temporary net mount and you listen to it with Amarok and give them ratings. Then you move/copy these files to your music directory and all ratings disappear. Or you remanage your music directory, rename some folders, move an album from Rock to Metal, whatever, in all cases, all ratings disappear. Another possibility would be to store all ratings in a database which relates each rating to the song-name or the song-content, but not to the absolute filename.	Feature promoted at 6 points No one has agreed to implement this feature. Feature created 2008-07-12 by albert
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6	save playlist on every change When Amarok crashes (or X11 crashes), the current playlist disappears and is just lost. When you restart Amarok, it has the playlist from the last correct quit. (Though this is something which annoys me, it perhaps does not fit good to the Hackontest as it should not be that hard to implement this.)	Feature promoted at 6 points No one has agreed to implement this feature. Feature created 2008-07-12 by albert
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5	play files from within zip and other archives Would be nice if I could play some MP3s which are within an archive. This would save space on disk.	Feature promoted at 5 points No one has agreed to implement this feature. Feature created 2008-07-22 by albert
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