GSoC report #2 - Integrate Spotify into Amarok

[Bart Cerneels]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> On May 27, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Ryan Feng wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The Spotify service plugin has two parts, a standalone Spotify resolver and
> a Amarok side Script Resolver, it's mainly from Tomahawk.  I've rewrote the
> Amarok side resolver, it can work without Tomahawk base classes and headers
> now. Here[1] is the code.
>
> In the following week, I will continue working on the resolver to make it
> more suited
> for Amarok.
>
> [1] http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=scratch%2Fzhengliangfeng%2Fgsoc-scratch.git&a=summary
>
>
> Hi from one of the authors of the spotify resolver :)
>
>  Please don't fork the resolver and make a bunch of amarok-specific changes.
> I'm more than happy to work together to make the resolver support both
> Tomahawk's and Amarok's needs together. If we end up with two different
> variants it is only a matter of time until one of the two bitrots and falls
> into disrepair, especially because Hugo and I are making frequent (and
> sometimes incompatible) changes to the spotify resolver as libspotify itself
> is often changing as well.

I fully agree with that. Ryan does get some leeway from me to try out
any changes we might need and then create a patch for spotify-resolver
that works for both projects. I'll make sure that is what will happen
and probably contribute myself as well.

>
> I'm hanging out in the amarok channels as well as #tomahawk, so lets have
> some conversations to make sure the resolver can do what you need it to do.
>
> cheers,
> leo
>
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