A quick Amarok tip - if you are like me, you have some folders full of random MP3s. For instance, I downloaded the nearly 1gb of MP3s from Stereogum and, while there are plenty of hits and misses, it’s a fun collection. But I don’t really feel like rating all of them, so to remove these from my Amarok view, I can filter them out by adding -directory:”stereogum to the Collection filter. So, for instance, to find all my unrated songs, but to not include the Stereogum collection, my filter is:
rating:>-1 rating:<1 -directory:”stereogum”
For some reason, you can’t do this via the advanced searching. You can append the directory search, but you’ll need to prepend the “-” to essentially say “not” this folder. Now I can play some unrated ones, in order to add ratings.
