GSoC project report: Integrate Spotify into Amarok

[Bart Cerneels]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Ryan Feng <odayfans at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> My name is Zhengliang Feng, I'm from China, and currently studying in the
> US. This is my first report of the Google Summer of Code project 'Integrate
> Spotify into Amarok'[1].  My mentor is Bart Cerneels.
>
> The main goal of my project is to integrate Spotify service into Amarok as a
> plugin, so users can login, access to their playlist, and stream tracks on
> Spotify in Amarok. The additional goal is make Spotify radio service usable
> in Amarok.
>
> Currently I'm trying to get Amarok running on Mac OS X, just to get familiar
> with the codebase, but unfortunately some dependencies in Macports are too
> old and there is much work to do with KDE and Qt port on OS X.
>
> Since the coding period has already started, so I would write some demo code
> with libspotify[2] and Qt next week.
>
> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/ofan/1
> [2] https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/libspotify/
>
> Thanks,
> Zhengliang Feng
>

Hey Zhengliang

Thanks for the intro, though I have to be honest and mention that you
should have send this a lot earlier.

Make sure you send us weekly updates and if you want to regularly blog
(ask me how to get your blog on planet.kde.org and
amarok.kde.org/planet). The blogs can be less technical and with
pretty picture. They should be more oriented towards the general
public. In the mails to this list you can talk class names and CMake
macro's ;). But don't wait to ask questions in the weekly mail. You
can ask on IRC or email if you don't get an immediate answer.

I'll renew my promise to be on IRC between 19:00 and 20:30 UTC every
Mon-Tue-Wed and Thu and I'll answer email ASAP. Ask others in the
channel as well. Our mentoring is a team effort.

Bart

P.S. I've noticed you're using the first name Rick on your google
profile. Can we use that? I certainly is less typing and less typo
prone anyway.

Bart