Non-windows stuff to do

[Jeff Mitchell]

Shane,

Depending on how much Windows internals you really know, we could
*really* use a Solid backend on Windows.  At least the media devices and
hard disk portions of it...

Of course, I don't know for sure that all of our libraries we use will
be available on Windows anyways, or how well they'll work, or how
they'll be packaged.  :-|

--Jeff

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.
>
> * 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. ;)
>
> Shane.
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