last.fm idea

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:10, Ljubomir Simin wrote:
> I have an idea related to last.fm support. It would be very nice, if Amarok
> could detect if song which is about to be played, is already present in the
> users collection, and thus it would play it from the hdd instead of
> streaming from net. Another possibility would be to skip songs from
> collection, so user would always listen to something new. Those modes would
> greatly save bandwith, but may be unimplementable.

Frankly I don't think that's a good idea. Technical overkill, and unneeded. 
Who cares about audio bandwidth these days? Also it's relatively unlikely 
that the user has a large percentage of the songs locally. I would estimate 
an average of 5%. 

Last not least it's impossible to say if a song is identical, just by looking 
at its filename or metadata. More often than not, the name will be slightly 
different.

-- 
Mark