Fwd: Magnatune integration (Music purchase)

[Seb Ruiz]

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From: Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:40:15 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Magnatune integration (Music purchase)
To: Seb Ruiz <me at sebruiz.net>

I would tend to agree with you Seb, but my main focus was prototyping this
functionality and being new to Amarok development I had to do it in whatever
fashion was the easiest. :-)

- nhnFreespirit

On 8/15/06, Seb Ruiz <me at sebruiz.net> wrote:
>
> 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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