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by TheBlackCat on Monday 14/Apr/2008, @08:34

I am using Amarok 2 and I must say it is already working really well. It also looks great. I don't think it looks too busy at all, in fact I can't wait for more context views. I have to admit, though, I have an extremely high threshold for "busy" so I may not be representative. I do have one question and one suggestion.

First, the cloud view looks very cool, but it sounds like it currently only works with online services. Will it be made to work with user labels at some point?

Second, in the tree view you have album art for albums, but for artists you only have that generic person image. Is there any way you can take one of the album art images for each artist and apply it to the artist as well (if there is one)? It doesn't matter which one you use, it can be the first alphabetically, first in the folder structure, randomly selected (although it should stay consistent between sessions). I just want something you can use to select an artist visually. At least for me identifying an image is a lot quicker than reading text.

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Re: cloud and images
by Nikolaj Hald Nielsen on Monday 14/Apr/2008, @11:37

For now, the cloud view is mostly a prototype and it still has some major issues ( Such as skipping all further items when it cannot fit any more in the view. ) That said, it is one of my little personal pet projects, and I have a tendency to not bing able to leave them in an unfinished state for too long... ;-)

I certainly think it would be cool if it worked with local tags, favorite last.fm artists or whatever as well... Most of this is likely post 2.0 though

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