The Playlist
The Playlist holds all the tracks you have en-queued for playing. You can change the sequence by dragging items around with the mouse, and dropping them in the desired position. Above the Playlist you see a Text Box, where you can enter a filter string. As soon as you enter a letter there, the Playlist will be redisplayed, showing only entries containing the entered characters. To stop the filtering, simply press Backspace, until the filter is empty.
Advanced, Google-esque syntax is also available.
By default, when you enter terms separated by spaces, it will search for items containing all of them. For example: one two three, will search for anything that contains one, two, and three.
However, you can put OR between terms to search for items that contain either, like this: one OR two OR three. That way, it will search for items that contain either one, or two, or three (or a combination of them).
You can also use quotes to search for terms with spaces in them: "Mike Oldfield". That will search for items that contain Mike Oldfield, but not, for example, ones that contain Mike J. Oldfield.
By default, it searches in all the columns of the playlist that are currently visible. However, you can use column:term to specify the column to search in: title:amarok (this can also be a column that isn't visible). This way, it will only search for items that have the word amarok in the title, and not, for example, in the album.
When specifying a specific column to search in, you can also search for items less than or greater than a term, for example: score:>50, which will search for items with a score greater than 50.
To specify a term you don't want the items to match, you can put a minus (-) sign before them: -thing, to search for anything that doesn't contain thing.
You can combine the above at will, for example: "Mike Oldfield" OR score:>50 -comment:bad. That will search for anything that either contains Mike Oldfield or has a score greater than 50, but excludes items where the comment contains "bad".
You can select items to be played in a specific order by holding Ctrl and clicking the right mouse button on items in the order in which you wish them to be played. The items will be tagged with a number showing the order in which you selected them.
