[PATCH] Magnatune integration (Music purchase)

Seb Ruiz me at sebruiz.net
Mon Aug 14 23:38:21 UTC 2006


I think that this is the perfect reason why we need a good plugin API,
so that it is possible to write these sorts of add-ons without
bundling it with Amarok.

My personal opinion is that it should not be included in the
application.  Ask me why later... :)

seb

On 15/08/06, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I posted a very prelliminary patch a while back and have bee quite busy
> since. But here is my first prototype of an integrated magnatune music
> store. This patch is not for the faint of heart, but I have been keeping it
> to myself for a long time and thought it was time to get some external
> feedback.
>
> This patch, like the previous one, allows browsing and previewing of all
> artist, albums and tracks from magnatune.com . Any preview item can be added
> to persistant playlists. This patch also allows the purchase of music
> directly from within amarok. !!THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL SO USE AT YOU
> OWN RISK!! If you choose to test this with your own credit card information,
> at the very least, copy the magnatune information displayed on the download
> dialog (user name and password) as this will allow you to go to
> magnatune.com and download your purchase should anything go wrong. If you
> choose to download the album to a location already monitored by Amarok, it
> will be automatically added to the collection. NOTE: this feature requires
> unzip to be installed.
>
> The patch can be downloaded from here:
> http://pwsp.net/~freespirit/magnatune_patch.diff
>
> a screenshot:
> http://img148.imageshack.us/my.php?image=amarokmagnatune52rh.png
>
> This is quite a large binary patch (it was created with the --force option)
> as it contains a few images. it was made against revision 573080
>
> I hope I have not messed the patch up too badly (am still quite new at this
> patch thing, so bare with me)
>
>
> Please let me know what you think. :-)
>
>
> - nhnFreespirit
>
>
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