gsoc 2010 : Discussion of Project proposal "Integration of playdar with amarok"

[Leo Franchi]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1) By integrating playdar into Amarok, users will be allowed to explore and
>> play tracks from any of the resolvers that playdar has made available.
>> 2 ) amarok can create dynamic playlists that can pull tracks from mp3tunes,
>> amazon full track previews, napster, soundcloud, local LAN computers, and
>> more.
>> 3)Imagine browsing the local network and seeing what tracks are seamlessly
>> available for you to play and organize.
>> 4) An implementation would both supply a collection backend, for browsing,
>> and a context applet, for doing a simple search in the context view.
>>
>> Some programming might be needed from Playdar side also.
>>
>> I hope it clarifies the project goal ..
>
> The thing is, Playdar currently does not provide any real
> discoverability features. This means that you basically have to know
> exactly what tract you want from Playdar and cannot query for a list
> of tracks. So the ideas of making dynamic playlists or seamlessly
> showing what tracks are available from Playdar will not work afaict.

Um, no. Some biases search for tracks, e.g. last.fm similar tracks.
The WeeklyTop bias can easily be extended to return tracks rather than
artists. More can of course be written.

leo


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