last.fm idea

[Greg Meyer]

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 5:18 pm, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> 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%.
>
Well, if you are listening to your personal stream, I imagine that 100% of the 
tracks would be in the collection.  But I agree, seems like technical 
overkill.

-- 
Greg