<p>The bg thing for me is MYSQL support both for speed and so i can share my db to my other machines around the house</p><p>thanks for a great app guys<br></p><p></p><p></p><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Martin Steigerwald</b> <<a href="mailto:Martin@lichtvoll.de">Martin@lichtvoll.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>Hi Greg!
<br><br>CC'd to you personally also, cause its an older thread.<br><br>I just have a few more questions ;-).<br><br>Am Donnerstag 13 September 2007 schrieb Greg Meyer:<br>> On Thursday 13 September 2007, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
<br>> > 1) When writing about current state of affairs (i.e. Amarok 1.4.7),<br>> > is there anything that you think I should include in any case?<br>> > Anything that might be easily overlooked? I think I have quite a good
<br>> > grasp on the key features, but if you have some additional input for<br>> > me, go ahead...<br>><br>> Dynamic playlists are important.<br>><br>> Scoring is often misunderstood, because people try to think of it in
<br>> terms of a rating, but that is different. Scoring is designed to tell<br>> you what music you prefer by reporting what you actually listen to. I<br>> know it changed the way I purchase music because it is focused on the
<br>> the music I actually like instead of the music I thought I liked. Much<br>> of the criticism was centered around the scoring algorithm, but this<br>> can be controlled by the user since scoring is done via script and the
<br>> user can create their own custom scoring script.<br><br>Whats the criticism here?<br><br>> > 2) If I provide a tips and tricks section in my article, what<br>> > tips&tricks should be in there IMHO? Anything else than
<br>> > <a href="http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks">http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks</a>?<br>><br>> A big one for me is feeding a dynamic playlist with a smart playlist<br>> rather something static or user created. I created a smart playlist
<br>> that selects songs with a score btween 80 and 95, with more than 8<br>> plays, and hasn't been heard in 3 weeks.<br><br>Why did you use a upper limit for the score (95)?<br><br>[...]<br>> Another huge item for more technical users is the ability to retrieve
<br>> information and control amarok through the KDE DCOP interface. This<br>> will be replaced in 2.0 with DBUS. Just type "dcop amarok" to see all<br>> the various dcop targets. Then try dcop amarok player nowPlaying:
<br>><br>> user@localhost $ dcop amarok player nowPlaying<br>> The Cure - Friday I'm In Love<br>><br>> "dcop amarok player showOSD" displays the OSD, etc. You can use the<br>> KDE DCOP browser to see everything available.
<br><br>Yes. Thats cute. I usually SSH into my Amarok machine - an used ThinkPad<br>T23 - and just use amarok -f when it plays a song, I do not like.<br><br>It will be a challenge to fit all the good stuff into one article. I have
<br>installation, MP3 support, the context browser + all of the stuff it<br>provides and intelligent as well as dynamic playlists covered - but so<br>much is still missing.<br><br>Ciao,<br>--<br>Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald -
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