Bug Bounty for bug 223400 ipod playlist support

[Bart Cerneels]

Damiön send this to me, forwarding to list. Please send to list
directly from now on. Yes in English, unless you really want to
confuse most of them ;)

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 21:23, kat amsterdam <kat.amsterdam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> I have asked the heaviest user of music for access to install the GIT
> version of Amarok on his computer. He's a DJ he is a heavy user of music
> programs.
> As soon as he responds and gives me remote access we can start our testing.
> I will try the GIT version here on a few of my machines to test. I'll have
> to go visit my Mac disciple friend (completely apple brainwashed) to
> activate the iPod touch gathering dust in the cupboard and test with that.
> Thank you Bart and yes I will make good on my promise when the tests
> are successful.
> (weet niet of je mijn reponse met anderen moet delen dus gewoon in het
> Engels beantwoord)
> *met vriendelijke groet,
> *Damiön la Bagh
> Amsterdam
>
> 2011/6/9 Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org>
>>
>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:03, kat amsterdam <kat.amsterdam at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear Amarok Developers,
>> > I install Ubuntu machines for my friends to help them over to
>> > open-source
>> > computing. The major problem is that a lot of my friends have ipods. I
>> > love
>> > Amarok (moodbar is my favorite feature) and so I promote it to my
>> > friends as
>> > well. Every time though I run into the same problem. Syncing playlists
>> > to
>> > their iPods. Either Amarok crashes (think this just got fixed) or the
>> > playlist does not sync. This causes me a lot of frustration and time
>> > fighting with a Win7 virtual machine and iTunes, which throws files
>> > around
>> > everywhere and is just a miserable program to work with.
>> > So we are down to bug 223400 I asked in the bug if it was okay to offer
>> > a
>> > bug bounty to finally get this fixed as this would benefit the entire
>> > Ubuntu
>> > (all flavours included) community.
>> > Myriam said to ask you guys and gals...
>> > So here is my offer:
>> > Fix bug 223400 so that people can sync their Amarok Playlists to their
>> > iPod
>> > I will then donate € 250 to the Amarok Fund via the Donate button on
>> > amarok.kde.org
>> > I believe in what you guys are doing and appreciate your work every time
>> > I
>> > start Amarok. Please fix this bug so I never have to hear the word
>> > iTunes
>> > ever again.
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Met vriendelijke groet,
>> > Damiön la Bagh
>> > Amsterdam, Nederland
>>
>> Hey Kat
>>
>> This week we've implemented drag and drop support from The Playlist to
>> any collection in the Media Sources panel, including iPod's. I've
>> tried this out myself with an ancient 4rd gen. iPod photo. It would be
>> cool if you can install the current git version [instructions] for
>> yourself and your friends and test it out with all those iPod's. The
>> first version that will support this is 2.4.2.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is enough for you to make good on your promise,
>> but here is what we are still working on for 2.4.2:
>> - Complete playlist saving: save a playlist to iPod and all the tracks
>> not on there yet will be automatically copied.
>> - Automatic playlist syncing: configure a local saved playlist to be
>> synced to the iPod, with all it's tracks.
>> - Better looking desktop UI: less gray, more variation in UI surfaces
>> in any color scheme.
>> - Lot's of bugfixes.
>>
>> I'll promise you the donation will go a long way towards a much more
>> enjoyable.
>>
>> Vriendelijke groeten terug ;),
>> Bart Cerneels
>> Limburg, België
>
>
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet,
> Damiön la Bagh
> Amsterdam, Nederland
> ==
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