Non-windows stuff to do

[Leo Franchi]

On Monday 10 December 2007 06:20:46 am Shane King wrote:
> I think I'm at the point where Amarok basically runs on Windows, and the
> major stuff that needs doing either I can't really do much about (eg I
> can't write code for media devices I don't have) or needs to get more
> stable in general before I sort any Windows related kinks out.
>
> With that in mind, is there anything for Amarok 2 I can look at doing
> that wont be stepping on anyone elses toes?
>
> A couple of ideas I had for things:
>
> * Last.fm/scrobbling: This doesn't seem to be hooked back in at the
> moment, and really should be updated from the last.fm client to protocol
> 1.2.

i think this is really important and needs to be done. 1.2 support is going to 
be necessary in the future anyway.... check out the code of the last.fm 
player for the implementation of the 1.2 protocol.

>
> * Embedded image and filesystem based image support, as currently only
> fetching from amazon is implemented for covers. Would really like to be
> able to tag covers back to files too - not sure about license
> implications there though (even though other programs do this). From
> what I can tell, we may technically be violating the license even
> caching the images to disk at all ...
>
> Anyway, even if it's only reading from tags and folder.jpg for now, it
> should be added back in.
>
> * On the subject of images, should be perhaps expand to not just use
> album images, but also artist ones (should be able to get these easily
> enough through last.fm)?
>
> * The collectionscanner still uses MetaBundle, which has a bunch of
> legacy stuff. Not sure what the eventual intention is here, use a
> light-weight replacement, or something xesam related like the Meta::File
> seems to do?
>
> * Writing back to tags is currently unimplemented. Probably needs the
> above item cleaned up first, so we have a smaller, leaner "MetaBundle"
> class to do the writing.
>
> * Or really anything else people can suggest that needs doing to get
> Amarok into a usable state ... given I don't have the luxury of using
> the stable branch on my native OS I have a high incentive to make Amarok
> 2 usable. ;)

Well, feel free to poke around in the contextview :) my time is very limited 
unfortunately (i have finals now) but it does need a considerable amount of 
love. it also takes some getting used to the design of plasma... but feel 
free to barrage me with questions.

leo

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