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amaroK featuresamaroK featuresPosted Nov 28, 2005 20:10 UTC (Mon) by balazs (subscriber, #4704)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers
The queue manager is very nice if you hear classical music or other kinds of music where tracks "belong together" like the movements of a concerto or symphony. Normally, I have my entire collection in the playlist and use random playback, but sometimes I add an entire symphony/concerto/whatever to the queue list. So I get the advantages of both random playback (no need to tell the player what to play) and playlists (the player plays whatever I want). If you use amaroK with classical music, you will like that feature.
The automatic rating means that songs get an average score at the beginning; when you hear them, the rating is increased (until 100 %); when you skip a song, the rating is decreased. The rating is then used to select the next track in random playback (so songs you like are played more often), and there are even "smart playlists" to just select songs with a high rating if you are in a "top hits only" mood.
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amaroK features Posted Nov 28, 2005 20:18 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] I don't quite understand. Do you somehow designate all your symphonies or something (your collections of must-play-in-a-particular-order music) each as a separate queue, or something?
amaroK features Posted Nov 28, 2005 20:28 UTC (Mon) by balazs (subscriber, #4704) [Link] No, most of the time I just use random mode and don't care. But sometimes I'd like to hear some things in the correct order so I just queue them. With Winamp, I'd have to double-click the first part, switch off random playback and remember to switch it on after the last part. But if the music I want to listen to doesn't come from the same CD (e.g. two symphonies of the same composer), the tracks are not behind each other in the playlist, so in Winamp, after one symphony I'd need to search for the second one. In amaroK I just queue up the tracks I want to hear in the next hour(s) and they get played, and I don't have to care to set some options back.
I don't want to diss Winamp, I've been using it for at least 5 years but amaroK gives me a much better user experience.
amaroK features Posted Dec 5, 2005 11:48 UTC (Mon) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link] You can do exactly the same in Winamp (Unfortunately I have to use Windows quite a lot, because of stupid Windows-only electronics software).
Just choose the playlist entry and press <Q>, then the song gets marked with a [1] and will be chosen next time no matter what, next ones gets a [2] mark, and so on...
Or maybe I misunderstood?
amaroK features Posted Nov 29, 2005 3:10 UTC (Tue) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link] it's more for choosing the next n tracks to be played. during random mode for example, if you see a song in the playlist you want to hear next you can queue it, along with any others, and they will play in that order and then return to random mode. during sequential listing, you could choose to play a couple songs from further down the list and then return to the previous place in the playlist and continue. it's mainly a convienience thing, where you don't have to go back into the player and turn random on/off or manually reorder the list by dragging tracks around.
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