<a href="http://Boxson.net">Boxson.net</a> seems willing to beta test Nikolaj's music store abstraction layer :) .<br><br>However, I think a general Store-side API will either be limiting or unpopular with many stores. The reason for this is that they might already have a web-API in place that integrates perfectly with their own system. Converting that could be a lot more effort then writing a Amarok script or plugin.
<br>Besides, with SOAP and XML, at least access to and the data itself is standardised.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/3/11, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <<a href="mailto:nhnfreespirit@gmail.com">nhnfreespirit@gmail.com
</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I just received this mail in response to the SoC project proposal I put up on
<a href="http://developernew.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Ideas#Amarok" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://developernew.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Ideas#Amarok
</a> yesterday. I think his idea sounds really interesting even though it is not directly related to my proposal. If he succeeds in creating, and getting sites to use, such and API that would open up a world of opportunities for adding content services to Amarok
<br><br>Just thought I would forward it here.<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:frihd@boxson.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
frihd@boxson.net</a></b> <
<a href="mailto:frihd@boxson.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">frihd@boxson.net</a>><br>Date: Mar 11, 2007 12:09 PM<br>Subject: About Google Summer of Code Project<br>To: <a href="mailto:nhnFreespirit@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
nhnFreespirit@gmail.com</a><br><br>
</span>Hi !
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I'm a French student which have just discovered your proposal for GSoC as I will certainly try to do it this year. I'm getting really excited with your proposal for two reasons:
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- This project is marvelous for opening access to DRM-free music
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- As you can see from my e-mail, I'm in <a href="http://boxson.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">boxson.net</a> : it's a french association of "free music" (free art licence & creative commons licence). I already wanted to create such a service "à la I-Tune" for our server (i'm not the coder of the site since I've little skills in php).
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I already used Amarok but I never dive into its code. Well I'm getting interested by your proposal and hope that you'll be accepted, if you need a platform which accepts to be on Amarok, I can at least find two of them (
<a href="http://dogmazic.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dogmazic.net</a>, friends of us which seek the same goal) I also have some contacts with europarchive (<a href="http://archive.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
archive.org</a> in Europe).
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Nevertheless, what I had in mind with my project was more a "API" for web-platforms: the website had to comply with it and then its archive is available and not make a software comply with a website API. Well, being selected or not, I want to told you that this project still interest boxson a lot.
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Best regards,
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--FrihD(Lucas Di Cioccio)
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