Bite-sized Amarok projects

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> So as some of you know  had some French university students working on
> Amarok last year, through a program that Kevin  Ottens(metalworker
> extroardinaire) runs. This year we're looking to do it again, and I'm
> collecting potential project ideas. Last year the students wrote the
> Similar Artists and Upcoming Events applets, as well as the playlist
> tooltip feature.
>
> If anyone has anything they'd like to propose to the students, some
> somewhat-self-contained projects that can be accomplished in 3-4
> months by a team of 2-4 students, let me know ASAP. A good example
> would be adding playlist support to services in the Playlists
> framework (so you can see your lastfm/ampache playlists) for example.
>
> I'll be sending off our ideas in a day or so, so be quick :)
>
> cheers,
> leo

I have some small wishes, but have no idea whether or not they are
"bite-sized" projects. It would be lovely to have both gapless
playback, and cross-fading back. Short of that, how about allowing
fade on pause if the main toolbar is in use? Right now, people set the
fadeout duration, but it has no effect with the main toolbar.

It would be useful to be able to copy a playlist and the tracks
associated to a mobile device. It would also be nice to have
playcounts from the device scrobbled.

Also, we have the ability to burn CDs via a script, but it would be
nice to generate a playlist, and initiate burning the CD from the
playlist menus.

Valorie