https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513422
Bug ID: 513422
Summary: Feature request: Multiple Album collections
Classification: Applications
Product: Elisa
Version First 25.12.0
Reported In:
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
This is a feature request. It is currently possible to have albums imported
from different source folders. However, all imported albums live inside a
single albums list. I would like to suggest the possibility to separate albums
into different collections. Unlike playlists, collections aren't lists of songs
but they separate albums on a more fundamental level. In short, albums, tracks,
artists and genres would be placed in its own separate workspace for each
collection.
A common use case I often come across is the need to separate "music albums",
"audio books", "language learning CDs", to name a few, from each other since
they are different in nature. Thus, an advantage would be that audio books, for
instance, can have different genres like "science-fiction" or "fantasy" and
would not mix up with music genres like "classic" or "rock". These different
genres would not appear in a single genres super list but would rather have a
separate genres list for each collection. This would help to keep a clean
library which I think is in accordance with the design goal of Elisa being
simple and easy to use.
In terms of implementation I could think of two ways: One way could be to
create a new collection and add albums manually from the default albums list.
Another way could be to associate each collection with different source
folders, so that collections would be updated automatically when adding new
files to a folder. Of course, technically it is also possible to combine both
ways, i.e. collections would automatically be updated when their associated
folder contents change, plus, albums could be deliberately moved from one
collection to another despite its file origin remaining in another/unassociated
folder.
Example:
Actual folders in home directory:
~/Music/Music Album 1/ (genre tag: Classic)
~/Music/Music Album 2/ (genre tag: Rock)
~/Audio Books/Audio Book 1/ (genre tag: Audiobook / Science-Fiction)
~/Audio Books/Audio Book 2/ (genre tag: Audiobook / Fantasy)
~/Granny's Xmas Songs/ (genre tag: none)
Collections inside Elisa:
(1) Albums ( = Music Albums)
-> references ~/Music/ folder
(a) Album 1
(b) Album 2
-> manually added files
(c) Granny's Xmas Songs
(2) Audio Books
-> references ~/Audio Books/ folder
(d) Audio Book 1
(e) Audio Book 2
Generated genres list (in the same manner for artists and other tags):
+ Genre (All)
+ Albums
- Classic (1 album, 20 tracks)
- Rock (1 album, 15 tracks)
+ Audio Books
- Fantasy (1 album, 40 tracks)
- Science-Fiction (1 album, 30 tracks)
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
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OBSERVED RESULT
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EXPECTED RESULT
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SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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