<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi, </font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I am a student interested in the Amarok project for Google Summer of Code, more precisely in the integration of Playdar as a collection backend. So I'd like to get feedback on my first draft especially on which services to include. Here's what I plan to do so far:</font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; ">- Create or use
different backend for Playdar, to be able to connect to a good number of online
service and those already supports by Amarok (Amazon, LastFm, Rhapsody etc.)</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Create a
bridge for Amarok to use Playdar mostly with the use of QJson</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Memorize the
query to continue to offer the song that you have search in a session of Amarok
and the possibility to save them in a playlist </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Integration of
the result directly in the collection in real-time for each successfully finished
query</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Create a
search context applet to be able to search specific song/artist/album with
Playdar and put the results in the collection for playback, integrate this
service in the internet menu of Amarok</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Add a setting
menu to be able to select which Playdar backend to use or not use</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Put an icon when
adding the song to the collection to signify that the song is from a Playdar
sources and differentiate the different backend</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Add the
automatic query of song when you sign in with one of your account, like LastFm
and add those to collection seamlessly or in playlist</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">- Automatically
include and use new backend to Playdar at each start-up, for a better
possibility of upgrade</span></font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"></span></p>
<div> I am open to any improvement you may think, things that I miss, general feedback or idea for the online services to include as backend for Playdar. I will also try to be in the irc channel as MaxCote if you want to talk with me about the project</div>