New Album Notification

[Dan Meltzer]

On Sunday 02 July 2006 8:52 am, Sébastien Laoût wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> With the integration of Wikipedia, you began to construct the next
> generation of music players.
> But well, we can go even further...
>
> An idea I just thinked to: when a music group that a user have in his
> library release a new album, Amarok should show a popup message to inform
> the user.
>
> So it keep people the task of regularily visit each group website to see if
> there is a new album to buy.
>
> Every week or so, Amarok lists every music groups/authors the user has in
> his collection.
> For each group, it goes to a site in the background, and search if there is
> a new album that is now out.

This would be so infeasible currently.  No sites offer a rss feed of their 
releases, and every band site is setup differently, someone would have to go 
to every band in the world's site and write a custom parser just for that 
site.  There is no way its possible.
> If yes, it show a message like that:
>
>  Group 1
>    New Album 1
>    New Album 2
>  Group 2
>    New Album 3
>
> User can select a group and click the following buttons for that group:
>  Visit Website...
>  Not Interested in this Group
>   => To not show any notification for that group the user is not interested
> in buying new albums.
>
> Or he can select an album and click the following buttons:
>  More Information...
>   => To popup a dialog with full information and showcase image
>  Buy on Amazon
>   => Or any other configurable website
>
> At any time in the Configuration dialog, the user can disable that feature
> or see a list of every groups and he can check every groups to tell if he
> is intersted of not.
>
> Best regards,
> Sébastien Laoût.
>
> PS: I'm not registered on the mailing list, so please CC me.
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