(b)logophile

Blowing off a bit of steam here… Both Amarok and Thunderbird support adding custom “tags” to the collection items (mail and music, contra-respectively).1 Which is lovely: tags let you apply non-hierarchical non-exclusive categories to your collection, which is a wonderfully flexible way of organising it. But neither application lets you search/filter on tags.2 Of course [...]

Having embarassed myself by mouthing off about Amarok without checking the state of play properly, I’m belatedly reading through the various developer blogs to see what they’ve achieved and what is still in the pipeline. It’s an education. The new design has three columns: on the left is your collection, on the right the playlist, [...]