Hello and proposal/brainstorming for SoundCloud service

[Be]

I just filed a bunch of bug reports for issues I have encountered in the
process of writing this script. This could all be done in QtScript with
a few additions to the scripting API. If you want to help, implementing
these features would be awesome:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342089
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342096
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342090

On 12/11/2014 09:43 AM, Julian Simioni wrote:
> Hi,
> I like your idea of integrating SoundCloud to Amarok. I have contributed
> (a tiny bit) to Amarok in the past, and know C++, Javscript, Qt, and
> many other languages pretty well. I've always wanted to contribute more,
> and actually I am trying to get a job at SoundCloud in Berlin!
>
> What timezone are you in? I'd love to collaborate via skype, and we
> could together probably make some good progress over the coming weeks.
>
> Julian
>
> On 12/10, Be wrote:
>> Hi Amarok developers, what's up? I don't see much recent activity in the
>> archives of this list, on the website, blogs, or the wiki. What are the
>> future plans for Amarok? I am interested in getting involved, primarily
>> to make Amarok an awesome SoundCloud client.
>>
>> I started working on a QtScript service plugin to stream from SoundCloud
>> (attached), but it seems that Amarok's QtScript API will not be enough
>> to really make use of SoundCloud's features. Is it possible to add to
>> Amarok's GUI outside of populating the collection pane or putting simple
>> HTML in the the info or lyrics applets with QtScript? I initially was
>> thinking of trying to do an ugly hack of using the info applet or a
>> lyric script to display information from SoundCloud and links to like a
>> track, comment, follow an artist, and other functions. However, I do not
>> see a way to do that without opening a separate browser, which kinda
>> defeats the point of the Amarok service.
>>  
>> So it seems that this service would have to be written in C++ to really
>> make it awesome or a lot of work would have to be done to extend the API
>> exposed to QtScript. Amarok already has places in its GUI that it would
>> make sense to integrate SoundCloud functions. Comments could be
>> displayed along the play bar like bookmarks, analogous to how they are
>> displayed on the waveform on SoundCloud's web interface. Adding a
>> comment would be done like adding a bookmark to a track in the local
>> collection. Perhaps the interface for this could be reused to create an
>> annotation feature for bookmarks in the local collection. Liking tracks,
>> following artists, showing who an artist follows, sharing
>> tracks/playlists to the users' stream or a group, and maybe more
>> functions could be invoked by pressing buttons added to the Current
>> Track applet when a track from SoundCloud is playing.
>>
>> As for the collections pane, this could be structured like:
>> Users
>> -User list generated from search terms, with thumbnails of user's avatars
>> --Playlists
>> ---Playlists with album art and year
>> ----track list in order of playlist
>> ---Other tracks, using user's avatar as thumbnail
>> ----track list
>> --All tracks
>> ---track list
>> --Likes
>> ---track list
>> --Shares
>> ---track list
>> --Following
>> ---user list
>> --Groups
>> ---group list
>> -Own account
>> --Same as above, plus:
>> --Personal stream
>> ---track list
>> Tracks
>> -Track list generated from search terms
>> Groups
>> -Group list generated from search terms
>> --Tracks
>> ---Track list
>> --Members
>> ---User list
>> --Contributors
>> ---User list
>> --Moderators
>> ---User list
>>
>> What would make this service awesome (and another feature that does not
>> seem possible via QtScript) and really take advantage of SoundCloud's
>> social features is that the hierarchy would be interlinking. Double
>> clicking a user or group anywhere in the hierarchy would load that
>> user/group in the user/group list at the second level of the hierarchy.
>> For example, when viewing who User A follows, double clicking on User B
>> in that list would load User B's information, displayed at the same
>> level of the hierarchy as User A with all the elements (playlists,
>> tracks, likes, following, groups) shown for any user.
>>
>> What will make this a challenge for me is that I do not know C++ or Qt
>> yet. I have some programming experience with Python, Bash, and
>> EMCAScript. I think writing this SoundCloud service could be a fun and
>> useful way to learn C++ and Qt (which I also want to learn to contribute
>> to Mixxx).
>>
>> Suggestions welcome! :)
>
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