GSoC project report: Integrate Spotify into Amarok

[Bart Cerneels]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> 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

^^ Typo, it's Ryan. Sorry if I've gotten it wrong before :)

> profile. Can we use that? I certainly is less typing and less typo
> prone anyway.
>
> Bart