Magnatune integration (Music purchase)

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

Ok, need to remember to "reply to all" ... got it! :-)

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