2 New Amarok GSoC Ideas Added, Take a Look!

Matěj Laitl matej at laitl.cz
Sat Apr 20 09:33:11 UTC 2013


On 20. 4. 2013 HARDIK DHIMMAR wrote:
> I am GSOC enthusiastic person and want to contribute to open source. I want
> to directly come to the point:

Hi Hardik,

> First: Presently amarok is not supporting bollywood lyrics. I have studied
> the source code and found that it loads the English songs lyrics from
> http://lyrics.wikia.com/
> dynamically using javascript accessing words array.
> I found similar website which gives the lyrics for bollywood songs. I would
> love to implement this feature.

This is a matter of hacking up a lyrics script for that, i.e. work for a 
single afternoon maybe. Certainly not a GSoC project.

> Secondly: I am facing difficulties in loading the song from my local
> drive(other than Ubuntu drive). Its not showing up on left hand side part
> of amarok screen. Is this problem due to installation of KUbuntu using wubi?
> I want to really work on this two topics.

This is user support question, certainly not a GSoC project. Please search the 
Amarok forum for possible solution.

> If this things are not worth pursuing, I want to join the existing project:
> Unified CUE File and Audiobook Chapter Support in Amarok.
> Any guidance from anyone would be appreciable.

Have you read the P.S.?

	Matěj


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